The office in this story sounds awesome, the boss does not care about his employees habits, everyone gets a cool nickname and if one is really lucky they can sleep at the office with a blank wall to look at! Starting with the initial employees it seems to me that the narrator doesn't rally keep them for their production value, rather he's fascinated by their human nature not to work (or how they work). I think this fascination trickles into the relationship between the narrator and Bartleby. For example he can't fire the man even though he never does anything! He even goes as far as to invite the man to live at his house, and I don't think this was out of concern for Bartleby but rather it was the Narrator's unwilling-ness to stop watching him.
Batleby also is interesting and reminds me of a couple of people I know with depression (when they're at their worst stages). Perhaps he should of stayed with the dead letters after he got fired. Maybe then e would of moved on instead of feeling so rejected.
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