Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace is the best and (as of press time) only handbook to an all-out employee revolution. The fuel of this revolution comes from the reader-submitted posts of the popular blog PleaseFireMe.com, the favorite outlet for people trapped in bad jobs to anonymously vent. As the site says: "Submit if you can't quit."
This book takes that venting and encourages the reader to get angry and laugh at the commonplace mistreatment we've all faced in our work lives.
Through the posts from employees in every industry, Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace takes you through the facets of unhappy work life. A post like this, "Please fire me. I was talking to my boss a couple weeks ago and in the middle of the conversation he said, 'This isn't very interesting to me,'" might lead to a PowerPoint on what topics will hold your idiot boss's interest. Another bad boss post might prompt a lighthearted exploration of the scientific explanations for why the emotionally stunted and intellectually questionable rise to prominence.
The book moves from surveying the landscape of the terrible office (even detailing the office with hilarious illustrated maps in Chapter 3: Your Environment: An Inconvenient Truth) establishing the grounds for revolt against the current office regime.
The already-laughable state of employee benefits, the absurd difference in how executives are treated, and the fact that employers know most employees are hostage to their jobs: These are the things the book tackles with jokes and advice on how to change them. There's also a ladies' chapter that takes a Cosmo-themed look at the complaints of the female workforce. (Bossmopolitan)This funny guide does as advertised, and puts its acquired wisdom to recommendations for carrying out the Revolution; from recruiting your co-workers to playing mind-games and pranks on your bosses until they're forced to relent.
Packed with laugh-out-loud segments which are just as funny flipping through as read straight through, Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace generates an original and clever response to every complaint imaginable. The content always amuses--even when it is rousing the reader to outrage at the suffering of their fellow employed--and the sharpest barbs are reserved for those bosses and companies that skimp on their workers whenever possible while bosses expense their every whim.
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The creators of PleaseFireMe.com, offer a blasting board for the unhappily employed and weave quirky Venn diagrams and factoids into their manifesto for life in the modern American workplace. --Kirkus Reviews
Even the most despondent of workers won't be able to help cracking a smile at this collection of hilarious tales from the labor front. --Kirkus Reviews
Hilarious. --Times & Transcript
There is an outlet for the employment blues. --Examiner
When unemployment gets you down, read Please Fire Me. Back at work? Submit a post. --Unemploymentality
Even the most despondent of workers won't be able to help cracking a smile at this collection of hilarious tales from the labor front. --Kirkus Reviews
Hilarious. --Times & Transcript
There is an outlet for the employment blues. --Examiner
When unemployment gets you down, read Please Fire Me. Back at work? Submit a post. --Unemploymentality
From the Back Cover
If you work in the kind of place where your boss's door is always open, the coffee is always refilled, and professionalism reigns, then kindly put down this book and throw yourself off something very tall. If years of being frustrated by arrogant douchebags and mental pygmies have left you ready to burn the world to the ground while laughing, then prepare to discover someone actually has it worse.
Inspired by the hugely popular website, Please Fire Me is...
"A venting ground for the malemployed."--Thrillist
"A really funny, bitchy co-worker."--The L Magazine
Read hilarious workplace horror stories and follow the PFM guide to surviving the corporate machine.
"Your boss is illiterate, your co-worker eats her own hair--whine it all out on Please Fire Me."--Details.com
Inspired by the hugely popular website, Please Fire Me is...
"A venting ground for the malemployed."--Thrillist
"A really funny, bitchy co-worker."--The L Magazine
Read hilarious workplace horror stories and follow the PFM guide to surviving the corporate machine.
"Your boss is illiterate, your co-worker eats her own hair--whine it all out on Please Fire Me."--Details.com
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By W. Hines
Format:Paperback
This book is hilarious! I just recently quit a job I hated and feel like I could have written this book -- it is the best. Unsentimental and angry and surreal. Lots of jokes packed in here. I really love the title. I think the best book of this type has enough of an overall theme so that you can see ideas build, but also has enough pay-offs along the way that you could conceivably flip open to any page and enjoy a section on its own -- and this book fulfills that. A great and funny book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a crack-up. For everyone who thinks his or her office, job, co-workers, cubicle, or boss isn't all he/she/it/they could be, read on: these are real-life people letting us in on how they toil away every day in The Suck. Some people's workplaces are breathtakingly awful - so awful they're hilarious (to us, at least). A previous reviewer complained about the graphics - I wasn't expecting Oprah Magazine slickness from comedy writers and neither should you. The graphics get the jokes across very well; you won't be missing any laughs because they didn't hire a wedding photographer to illustrate it.
It's the kind of book you want to bother people with and show them something hilarious on every page. It's that funny.
It's the kind of book you want to bother people with and show them something hilarious on every page. It's that funny.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Anna
Format:Paperback
I guess you could call me a sucker for workplace humor but I thought this book was great - a lot of highs and very few lows. Love the graphics, too. If you like funny, office-based stuff, then this is the book for you! And I'm not just saying that because one of my posts got published. (Although, who could blame me?) :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By C. Kinsey
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The PFM crew has assembled a great collection of things we all wish we could say if only...
This is a great fluffy read if you need some comic relief from the tragic accurate reality of your own life because, truly, what's better than laughing at somebody else's obvious discomfort to make you forget your own? A delightfully warped walk through the modern workplace. Just the thing to make you remeber your pressed wick drive. (Texas joke - no worse than Oxfired University.)
This is a great fluffy read if you need some comic relief from the tragic accurate reality of your own life because, truly, what's better than laughing at somebody else's obvious discomfort to make you forget your own? A delightfully warped walk through the modern workplace. Just the thing to make you remeber your pressed wick drive. (Texas joke - no worse than Oxfired University.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By JC
Format:Paperback
Unlike other website-based books which merely regurgitate user posts, every page of Please Fire Me showcases the unique humor and thoughtful editorial writing of its authors Jill Morris and Johnny McNulty. Spoiler alert: unless you're the dour, humourless coworker in cube C-17 (yes you Priscilla), you're going to laugh out loud.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone who works in an office or enjoys humour can appreciate this! The charts & graphics are not to be missed, they're eerily accurate. I work in an office for a corporation & I swear I've seen some of these before. Anyway I can't recommend this highly enough, they are just a scream!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By rhhunter
Format:Paperback
In terms of things that stood out... I LOVED the charts and graphics in the PowerPoint chapters (the first chapter & the secret robot chapter). As someone who can speak from experience, these guys really nailed how dumb office PowerPoints look. Also, the illustrations in the map chapter were awesome. But MOST IMPORTANTLY: They used one of my submissions in the book!! I couldn't believe it. I was honored to have played a (very small) part in the creation of something so funny, and I would recommend this book to anyone who hates their job or likes to laugh (or both).
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Dave
Format:Paperback
This is a lazy, unfunny, eye sore. I'm a fan of the PFM site but this book completely failed to meet my expectations. First of all, it looks like the book was designed in Microsoft Word using charts from Microsoft Excel. Visually it was almost as engaging as an HR handbook. And the humor? Well, it's...interesting. University of Oxfired? Afluck instead of Aflac? So lazy.
The authors should have used more content from the PFM site because all the original book material (and unfortunately that is the majority of the content) is lame.
The authors should have used more content from the PFM site because all the original book material (and unfortunately that is the majority of the content) is lame.
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