"Action Will Be Taken" centers on the unusual work experience of a so- called "worker". In the beginning of the short story, the narrator, who is the main character, expresses the fact that he is "inclined more to pensiveness (serious thought) and inactivity than to work". He is forced to work, though, when financial difficulties arise. On one of these occasions he applies to Wunsiedel's factory. The application includes a breakfast and several questions that focused o

There are two more satirical situations. One is in the product of the factory. The soap represents the cleanliness of modern civilized industry. The humorous thing is that nothing actually happens to make the industry unclean. A final example of satire in this story can be seen in the narrator's choice for a new career. Ultimately by taking on a position that requires nothing to be done (professional mourning), he is admitting that what he does best is nothing. Applied to what he represents in the story, this signifies that in general the entire workforce is best at doing nothing.

n his work ethics. He lies on all of them, depicting himself as a hard-worker that needs to be in the-mix-of-things at all times. For several weeks he operates telephones, saying into them variations of the phrase "Action must be taken!" One day he hesitates in reciting this phrase when Mr. Wunsiedel enters the room. The boss shouts at him for not obeying the rule and than dies of a heart a

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