People with intense, stressful careers, regardless of their personal flaws, have the ability to do the work expected of them and gain the respect of their boss. In Herman Melville's Bartleby The Scrivener, the narrator tells the situation of three of his employers: Turkey, Nippers, and Bartleby. The narrator mentions the personal lives of each of the men and how it affects their work. However, the narrator was able to maintain respect for each.
             Turkey is the first copyist mentioned in the story. He is an elderly drunk, productive in the mornings but totally intoxicated by the afternoons. "Nevertheless, as he was in many ways a most valuable person to me, and all the time before twelve o'clock meridian, was the quickest, steadiest creature, too, "(1170). When drunk, he is highly excitable. He tends to knock over things and makes his own stationary for his documents. "All his blots upon my documents were dropped there after twelve o'clock, meridian. Indeed, not only would he be reckless, and sadly given to making blots in the afternoon, but some days, he went further, and was rather noisy"(1170). This situation bothered the narrator, to the point that he asked him not to come back to the office after twelve o'clock. Turkey felt like he was the best man to do the job at hand, and blamed it on old age. "But the blots Turkey,' intimated I. 'True; but, with submission sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age- even if it blot the page-is honourable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old" (1171). After Turkey proved his case as to why his work was incoherent, the narrator decided to keep him employed. "So, I made up my mind to let him stay, resolving, nevertheless, to see to it that, during the afternoon, he had to do with my less important papers&q...