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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400079377
ISBN: 1400079373
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 13, 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly what they are selling, and missing donuts are the cause of office intrigue. While Jones originally wanted to climb the corporate ladder, he now finds himself descending deeper into the irrational rationality of company policy. What he finds is hilarious, shocking, and utterly telling.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Real-life Dilbert!
As I started reading this book I kept feeling that it was a long string of Dilbert-like situations. My copy came with the donut on the cover and the donut is very prevelent throughout the story as a whole fiasco is created at the beginning of the book when Roger (one of the Sales people) complains about a missing donut. This leads to an employee firing and the dismissal of the food services department. The donut may also symbolize the company as a whole. The more I read the book I kept thinking ... Read More
Rating:  - Stupendous job!
I have not read a better business novel! And I believe I have read almost all business novels that exist. I would compare it with 'Yes Minister' in its satire and with any thriller in its pace. After working in the industry for a decade, everything reads so eerily true! I recommend it to everybody planning to work in business (with a pinch of salt) and everybody in the business world or connected to it.
The book is well written and is a very easy read and fast. And you do not have to know ... Read More
Rating: - Story of my life!
Having worked for a huge, Fortune 15 company for the past four years, I felt like the book was written about some of my experiences, yet I was laughing or completely jaw dropped for nearly the entire book. I read it completely on the bus for my commute, and got a few of my neighbors on the bus interested in the book just from my laughs.
The only reason I rate it 4 stars instead of 5 is that I think the first surprise in the book (around page 100) was actually more exciting for me than the ... Read More
Rating:  - Not so good
Generally speaking, I'm all about anti-corporative works, myself being fortunately able to escape the corporative world and make a decent living by my own.
This book, which is not bad (it's simply highly forgettable), has one major flaw: it's not funny enough. It's advertised as funny, as some kind of Scott Adams, but it's not. It begins funny, then suddenly it's dark (which I can get), but it seems the writer lost the purpose of the book.
Well, anyawy, I didn't feeel I lost precious ... Read More
Rating: - Very entertaining
If you ever worked for or with a big company, you'll find this book Company hilarious. Things like these will actually make you laugh:
* Endless voicemail forwards: "This is Greg Smith, Gretchen, can you please forward this to my staff. This is Mike Jones, Mary, can you please forward this to my direct reports. This is ..."
* Nobody really knows what the company does or wants to have to explain it to someone else.
* All your "customers" are internal customers. (I remember ... Read More
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