Product Description

Whether we are celebrity chef or hapless waiter, engineer or oily rag, commissioning editor or TV producer, all of us have a whole daily wagon-load of s**t to deal with in the name of work. From boardroom to boredom, from 'what's the point?' to Powerpoint, from 9 to 5 to P45. And that's what this new book from uber-grump Stuart Prebble is all about; the utter everyday relentless crapulence of working for 'the man', or indeed 'the woman'. The workplace is a piece of cake for someone of his curmudgeonly quality. It's not possible in a book of this size to include ALL the grumps arising from the working day - the office politics, the shortcomings of IT, the interminable meetings and some of your colleagues' weirder habits, but he is giving it a go. Grumpy? I'll say we are . . .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133762 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Stuart Prebble has a distinguished career in television. A former chief executive of ITV, he set up Liberty Bell as an independent television production company in 2002.

Customer Reviews

Grumpy after reading this book
If you want to read a book about all those annoying work related things then is not a book to read. In reality this should have been called 'The working life of Stuart Prebble'.

There are no witty anecdotes from your Clarksons, Smiths etc like other books by the author. Instead you are treated to tales of Stuart doing his paper round.

After about 25 pages you will be bored to tears and probably doing what I did and chucking this in the bin.

Flogging a dead horse
For those of us gentlemen of a certain age, the original "Grumpy Old Men" was great - this is a sad disappointment. Stuart clearly used up all his best ideas in the first book, and this one is just a cash-in. Avoid.