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"I cried because I did not have an office with a door, until I met a man who had no cubicle."- Dilbert

For the working people out there, especially those who work in an office building, I highly recommend that you read the book "The Joy of Work" (Scott Adams).

It's an indispensable guide to finding happiness at your workplace. There are lots of useful tips on how to bring humor and creativity to your working life, so you won't have to suffer from those Monday blues ever again and to make your climb on the corporate ladder much more enjoyable.

Mr. Adams starts with the ominous warning against the next wave of office design- elimination of happiness. Proving that with his economic theory of employers ("Anything that makes employees unhappy makes the stock prices go up"), he develops a new theory for employees - "Happiness creates money." He shows how reducing unpleasantness at the workplace is equal to giving yourself a payrise.

The book is loaded with practical and proven tips on how to find happiness at the expense of your co-workers and bosses:-
- learn how to manage your boss according to their types (Capable-Evil, Capable-Harmless, Incompetent-Evil, Incompetent-Harmless) using techniques such as upward delegation, inducing tension, witholding information, proximity avoidance, bad news inoculation and even hypnosis (pacing and leading)
- explore the new trend of reverse telecommmuting (exploiting Internet connection, cubicle yoga, multishirking, stealth books)
- loads of logical sounding ideas and workkable rumors to use when dealing with salespeople, accountants, techies and marketing
- top secret methods of mining humor out oof ordinary situations
- advance your career by using humor to faake intelligence and designing a portfolio of happiness, and why managing creativity is superior to managing time
- a whole chapter devoted to office prankss
- manage criticisms of the four category oof critics (contrarians, sadists, nuts, bastards) using techniques such as faking sensitivity, avoiding the proximity problem (that arises when two incompatible concepts are put together in the same setting) and using stupidity against stupidity

The book comes complete with a bonus section made up of entirely invisible pages.

.: 5/14/2002 :.

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