Inhuman Resources
A Guide to the Psychos, Misfits and Criminally Incompetent In Every Office
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- 5,49 €
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- 5,49 €
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Hell is other people. Real hell is other people in your office.Every day the office is becoming more and more dangerous. Hard hats are not required, however thick skin must be worn at all times. Bad behaviour, rudeness, mega-dagginess and mercenary ambition is condoned, and often celebrated. Blame is as routine as the morning coffee and the wacky cup it comes in.To survive in this world you need to identify the threats, and understand the behavioural traits of those around you. Inhuman Resources arms you with a foolproof guide to the office weirdos you will encounter every day, from the pathetic to the dangerous and all the sociopaths in between. They may be sitting at the workstation next to you or chairing tomorrow's budget meeting. You may have even broken banana bread with them just this morning. All of them need to be identified and ridiculed into oblivion. They are mean, cowardly, devious and utterly repugnant. They are Inhuman Resources.
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The thing about work is that, barring jobs like land-mine recovery and slaughterhouse clean-up, the worst part isn't the work, it's the people. So Stanford's guide to the many varieties of cretins, opportunists, suck-ups, and other toxic individuals populating the workplace should be handy. Since it's being marketed as a humor book, it should also be funny. Alas, it's a little of both and not enough of either. Stanford shines in pinpointing recognizable types the "I hurry therefore I am" person, the "we'll have to reschedule, someone more important has come up person," and the "I don't want to be here" person, to name a few, but that's the problem: they're so recognizable that they feel old hat. Even when he's at his funniest usually in the damning emails sent by offenders he's still subverted by the format. Not only is bright yellow type hard on the eyes, but, more importantly, once we've heard the description of the annoying cubicle-dweller as he/she is in the office, was in childhood, and will be in retirement, plus the pithy email for context, we've heard the joke four times.
