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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise | Georges Perec
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Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity--and possibly his sanity--as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed--but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec's Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.
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Cursory stack for @24in48 - with Harry stuck in the middle, as I finished it and set it on top of stack one. I won't be reading 24 hours- I'm going to march with the girls tomorrow, but most of Sunday will be spent reading. Have fun, Littens! We are all here for each other and to make this world a better place. 😘#24in48 #readathon #strengthinnumbers (of pages,too!)

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kspenmoll Take care tomorrow! I am marching in Htfd CT 🎉💚 8y
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CherylDeFranceschi @SaraFair Thank you! We will be. Hoping this is one of the times Chicago rises itself up! 8y
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