Product Description

What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines... colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You’ve faked phone calls to avoid them. You’ve hidden in toilet cubicles until they’ve gone away. At last there’s an effective way to fight back.

Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hidey–hole and fire escape all rolled into one.

Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It’s the perfect antidote to nightmarish co–workers everywhere!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12123 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 218 pages

Review
"...ought to elicit a chuckle of recognition or two." (Publishing News, 19^th March 2004)

"Pains in the Office (Capstone 2004) contains pastiches of easily identifiable office types such as the Boozer, the Butt Licker and the Bully...this book offers genuinely useful tips on how to deal with such types. A volume no office lavatory should be without." (Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2006)

Review
"...ought to elicit a chuckle of recognition or two." (Publishing News, 19^th March 2004)

"...this book offers genuinely useful tips...A volume no office lavatory should be without." (Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2006)

From the Inside Flap
What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines... colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You’ve faked phone calls to avoid them. You’ve hidden in toilet cubicles until they’ve gone away. At last there’s an effective way to fight back. Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hideyhole and fire escape all rolled into one.

Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It’s the perfect antidote to nightmarish coworkers everywhere!

Customer Reviews

I laughed so much that I coughed up some blood.
This book is quite simply excellent. I picked up a copy yesterday and read it on the train going home (the previous book "Pains on Trains" inspired the purchase) - I managed to get into a laughing/coughing fit whilst reading the section on "The Company Bike" and got into such a state that I nearly soiled myself. I have brought it into the office today and am showing the relevant sections to some of the tossers that I work with in the vain hope that they might change their behaviours accordingly.

Accurate, funny and scary all at the same time!
This book is amazing. It has every conceivable pain in the backside work colleague you can ever hope to meet. I reckon if I worked in an office with all of them I would go insane. Mind, you I'm not far off now. I loved the Bowel Mover, so spot on. I don't think I will ever go to the toilet at work ever again. Our office is full of Competitors and Egotists which is a real drag. I am going to give the book to HR and get them off their fat butts to do something about this. I commend it to wage slaves everywhere as it gives you some amusement in an otherwise dull existence (at work of course!).

At last someone who is willing to expose our work colleagues
I'm sick to death of work, so why aren't you. If you are tired of all the cretins you have to work with, then this is the book for you. Deeply satirical and so accurate, it may not make your working life any better, but at least it gives you the ability to vent your spleen. If you hate your workmates, then get this book now!