How to Relax Without Getting the Axe
A Survival Guide to the New Workplace
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
“Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing.” – New York Post
The ultimate satirist of corporate America, bestselling author Stanley Bing (Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses) now offers an outrageous survival guide to the new workplace with How to Relax Without Getting the Axe—an eminently useful handbook that shows you how to retire on the job while still taking up (window) office space and drawing a huge salary. Succeeding in business without really trying is easy when you listen to Bing.
Learn the secrets to a truly executive lifestyle with Bing’s signature “Executricks”:
Artful Delegation: The core skill of all power—how to get other people to do the stuff you don’t want to do, and make sure they thank you for the opportunity.Managing Meetings: Strategies for avoiding, dominating, or sleeping through the single most disruptive element to any serious executive life.The Expense Account Lifestyle: How to eat big, travel well, and drink on the house by mastering the creative utilization of plastic.Achieving Work-Life Balance: The ultimate goal isn’t just to survive the workplace, it’s to retire on the job while still drawing that huge salary.
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In this salty satire of a business guide, Bing (What Would Machiavelli Do?) invites "anyone with a job and a desire to shirk it" into his program of retiring while still on the job. "I'm scared to retire. That way lies senescence, superfluity, and too much thought about fiber. Not to mention, you know, Death," he writes, and he isn't a mite too enamored with the drudgery of the working life. Bing's solution is to live like a CEO while a mere drone, and his slacker's guide dispenses pithy advice on the arts of delegation, abuse of status, napping on the job and the all-important acquisition of a career-building table at important restaurants. And why work excruciatingly long hours when you can fake job devotion through the clever manipulation of your handy BlackBerry? Though the tone turns from gently mocking to earnestly didactic by the end, the book makes a great gift for the legions of would-be retirees and provides laughter and relief from the anxieties of corporate culture.
