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My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable Paperback – March 2, 2004

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A mercilessly funny collection of cartoons from the author of My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable and Get Your War On takes a new journey inside the corporate world to capture the lives and fortunes of his cubicle slaves. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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64 pages
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English
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Riverhead Trade
Publication date

March 2, 2004
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8.44 x 0.2 x 10.92 inches
ISBN-10

1573223824
ISBN-13

978-1573223829
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From the disparate extremes of corporate banality and his own furious imagination, Rees has crafted a world seething with humor. Following his antiwar hit Get Your War On and his samurai spoof, My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, this is a hilarious satire of workplace desperation taken to a medieval level of agony and the madness needed to survive it. Visually, the story consists of bland clip art taken from business presentation manuals, but Rees skillfully uses the same drawings over and over again to create an entire cast of characters. These doomed office drones speak in a profane gangsta patois that is anything but boring. "You're being killed by the numbers? Fuckin' count harder man!... You are real. You are better! Say that shit ten times." Tensions mount as the unnamed company tries to find a new filing technique that will neutralize the presumed boredom and incompetence of its workers. Dr. Fanderbiles, a consultant portrayed by a drawing from the 1920s, is brought in to increase productivity, but things go terribly wrong, even when he promises team members a chance to "jump out of an airplane and hold hands." This work joins Office Space, Work is Hell and Dilbert as a fantastic recreation of the middle-management tedium and petty in-fighting that the workplace can become. Unlike Dilbert's wasteland, though, this office actually seems to be a very exciting place, what with people turning invisible, databases blowing up and computers using Scotch tape to network. Rees is quickly becoming one of Gen Y's foremost humorists.
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Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious...and impossible to pigeonhole. -- Rolling Stone

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Trade (March 2, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1573223824
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1573223829
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.44 x 0.2 x 10.92 inches

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Baranabus

"Office Space" in a raw low-budget comic format

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2013

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If you like much cursing, and angry ridicule at the inanities of office culture that is more biting than "The Office" or Dilbert, than this is for you. Especially if you worked in cube culture of the 80s and 90s and had to endure many Mission Statements, and ridiculous middle management 'motivational' blather.

Also highly recommended for catharsis from insanely tedious work that makes you want to yell after awhile. This is not nuanced subtlety here, not a comedy of manners like "The Office" but hits the rage spot just about right.

Rees did this before 'Get Your War On", which is more cohesive (I guess you could call it that) and he hit his stride in that book, but this is so perfect for its time. It's the same format that's been ripped off and much-imitated since then - Clip-Art figures ranting and raving and making absurd non-sequitors, and generally spewing all the things you'd like to say but cannot in the interest of keeping your job, even if you hate it.

Sample "presentation": "Success Strategies: Why Don't You Have One? Because You Can't File for #@&*".

Ahh! yes!

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Connick

Empower Yourself to Excel the Data

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2010

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Very funny, curse-laden, nonsense comics that asks and answers questions such as:

Do the numbers in our files represent real objects, or are they just an abstraction?
Is alphabetically the only order letters come in?
How can I empower myself to excel the data?
and
Why are you performing eye surgery in my cubicle?

If you don't mind swearing for swearing's sake then you will probably get a kick out of this one. It's short and you won't find yourself re-reading it on winter nights, but it's a nice novelty item and worth the price tag.

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Love it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2016

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Funniest book ever

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Barry R. Stock

Incredibly Wicked, Funny, and On Target

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2005

I wish the offices I have worked in were this hilarious, and I could have used the Triangle Body Mode in many awkward situations.

In short, I laughed until I couldn't breathe and had to put the book down. An incredible, hilarious commentary on the depths of despair available 9:00-5:30 in your metropolitan area.

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LM

Even Better Than Get Your War On!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2004

I loved David Rees' political satire, but this book is even funnier. If you like Office Space but thought the plot got in the way of the laughs, you'll love this. Anyone who has ever worked in an office (and doesn't mind profanity) can appreciate the humor.

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Diego Gomez

TERRIFIC!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2005

The FUNNIEST book ever! if you've werked in an office, u will love this book! If you haven't worked in an office, i hate you and you will STILL love this book! - hey i sound like an ad!

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Andrew

This Is Funny?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2004

If this is Gen Y humor, it helps explain why SNL is still on the air. "My New Filing System" takes the art technique invented by Tom Tomorrow, adds a pointless storyline, stirs in an average of two cuss words per panel, and lets fly. If you subscribe to the school that 10,000 bad jokes might produce 1 laugh, this might be for you. For those who like their humor to be a little more, um, funny, skip this and go watch the chimps throw s**t at the zoo.

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Walkerno5

Disagree? Triangle Body Mode.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 2, 2016

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Possibly the greatest deconstruction of late 20th/ early 21st century office life in the English Language.

Anyone who disagrees is going to get the Triangle Body Mode treatment.

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A. Perri

Love it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 27, 2010

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This book is my go-to when Im having a bad day or just need a laugh. The use of clip art as office humor is just great. If you like 'Office Space' or 'The Office' you will like this book!

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