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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

Bellos, David
Perec, Georges

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ISBN10: 178478656X
ISBN13: 9781784786564
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jan 17 2017
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.80
Language: English
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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