Office Wit and Wisdom (Hardcover)

by Tracey Turner (Author)

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Product Description
A handy guide to surviving office life while retaining your sense of humor, individuality, and will to live…

Companies around the world have a tendency to take young, healthy individuals, suck them dry of energy, creativity, and enthusiasm, and then spit out the desiccated husks with nary a backward glance. In order to survive this process, it’s necessary to laugh. Office Wit and Wisdom encourages us to appreciate the funny side of office life and includes: a dictionary of management-speak, with suitably dry definitions of those strange phrases only ever uttered within the confines of the office; a field guide to office personalities (sadly, we all know those executives who punch the air and whoop as they hit their targets); and a sobering analysis of office parties: years of commuting and working lunches rewarded by warm white wine and public humiliation in the form of a karaoke machine…say no more.

About the Author
Tracey Turner is a writer and children's books editor. Her previous publications include Do You Come Here Often? A Failure's Guide to Flirting (Prion). She has had a number of nasty incidents in offices, some of them lasting several years. The majority of her office life has been spent in the shady underworld of children's book publishing. She lives in London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Prion (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853755907
• ISBN-13: 978-1853755903
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,124,413 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)