- Paperback: 157 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Jan 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060833416
- ISBN-13: 978-0060833411
- Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 15.3 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Format:Paperback
Who knew you could have such fun with crap jobs, with this book you'll laugh at how low and desperate things can get and you'll meet all sorts of weird and wonderful characters from the world of the underjob, the 100 tales of crappy jobs is like 100 mini Trainspotting films in one. Looking for comedy ideas for a sitcom based on real life, read this!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Welcome to the world of brown-collar employment
1 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
Okay, so almost every story is British. Big whoop. If you've ever worked a McJob, you can identify. Mostly.
Welcome to 100 of the nastiest jobs you've ever heard of, the kind you couldn't pay Mike Rowe to profile. Maggot wrangler. Pie-hole puncher (even less interesting than it sounds). Chili sauce bottler. Editorial assistant (one wonders from her story if she wasn't singlehandedly responsible for the nickname "Grauniad"). Door to door salesman (one of which involved the supervisor passing out free lines of cocaine to whoever was falling asleep on their feet). It's all bad news, and good reading. (It would probably go nicely with a copy of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.)
One downside: the cartoonist, who signs as Gwyn, is awful -- utterly lacking in artistic talent, and with no discernible sense of humor. Thus a 4-star review rather than 5-star.
Welcome to 100 of the nastiest jobs you've ever heard of, the kind you couldn't pay Mike Rowe to profile. Maggot wrangler. Pie-hole puncher (even less interesting than it sounds). Chili sauce bottler. Editorial assistant (one wonders from her story if she wasn't singlehandedly responsible for the nickname "Grauniad"). Door to door salesman (one of which involved the supervisor passing out free lines of cocaine to whoever was falling asleep on their feet). It's all bad news, and good reading. (It would probably go nicely with a copy of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.)
One downside: the cartoonist, who signs as Gwyn, is awful -- utterly lacking in artistic talent, and with no discernible sense of humor. Thus a 4-star review rather than 5-star.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Hilarious
21 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
I've laughed myself to tears over numerous pages in this book. Each job description includes little emoticons which provide a shorthand assessment of the job. A head with a hatchet buried in it denotes "dangerous", a head with devil horns coming out of it means "immoral", and so on. The book is not for prudish goody-two shoes of the world, but man, is it funny.
6 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Unexpectedly Foul
18 Aug 2006
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From the cover, I expected more of a light-hearted, humorous look at situations in which employment is less than ideal. Instead, I found that while some anecdotes are funny, the book is largely unentertaining and quite literally filled with obscenities, especially the cartoons. This one is going to the used book store ASAP, and if they don't want it, the dumpster will do fine.
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