100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them [CD-ROM]

Stanley Bing (Author)

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (2006)
• ASIN: B000MHRN4M
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 100 Bullshit Jobs..And How to Get Them, and The Big Bing, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened and You Look Nice Today. By day he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Borrow a friend's copy, July 2, 2006

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R. J. Marsella (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them (Hardcover)

Good for a couple of laughs but essentially one funny idea stretched into a hardcover. Something to page through on a plane, in the bathroom , or while waiting for the dentist but not much substance. Better yet - pick it up at your local bookstore read it over a latte and return it to the shelf 20 minutes later and you'll have the idea.

46 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bing's a funny guy, but not as smart (or funny) as he'd like you to think..., May 20, 2006

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Lemon Magic (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them (Hardcover)

Since I work one of the so-called "BS" jobs listed in this book, let me make it clear that I can take a joke, and I don't mind being ribbed now and then about it. There is BS in my field just like in any other - including business journalism. But I've read Bing's columns in Esquire magazine over the years, and I can safely say that Bing is quite a BS artist himself, and many of his pieces haven't really deserved to see print in a national magazine. (Others have, of course). Bing's sneering dismissal of many 'alternative' career paths, while funny, tells the reader a lot more about the limits of Bing's worldview than it does about the jobs he derides.

This book is just another example of his habit of coming up with an extended magazine piece, wrapping a hardcover around it, and getting some publishing house to charge the reader $15.00-$20.00 for something no better (or funnier) than a typical mass-forwarded joke list on Usenet or a daily blog entry.

I wouldn't say "don't buy it", since Bing is still funnier and sharper than many writers who comment on commerce and business. I would say, buy it only if you have money to burn, and don't mind spending a large amount of money for a very small number of mild chuckles.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Funny but a fluff book, January 16, 2007

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Farnoosh Brock "Motivation: From Goals to Gre... (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them (Hardcover)

I got this book to really learn something (no laughing :)) but it was just a funny read, and not much substance to it. I could not really follow the logic in a lot of places, and I had trouble explaining exactly what the book is about, although I liked the last very last 3 pages. Funny light-reading, if you have the time....