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Hello Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay (Hardcover)

by Corinne Maier (Author)

3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Orion (16 Jun 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0752871862
ISBN-13: 978-0752871868
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 266,316 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Enjoyably ill-tempered...The tone throughout is perkily cynical'

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'Enjoyably ill-tempered...The tone throughout is perkily cynical' (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

'This clever manifesto is the smark slacker's guide to getting ahead' (VOYAGER (BMI) )

'Corinne Maier's French bestseller says its OK to be crap at your job, for it's the idle who succeed. Hooray!' (METRO )

'This witty slackers' guide will tell you all you need to know about how to do zero - and get away with it!' (OK! )

'This is not just a book about the hollowness of business culture. It's also about where we are at in society. Read this book and laugh, preferably on company time!' (IRISH EXAMINER )

'Short, ferocious and richly entertaining...An excellent and salutary read' (EUROPEAN BUSINESS )

'Full of hilarious passages and dark insights into the way people in large institutions can end up caring for nothing other than their own survival' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

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4.0 out of 5 stars Dilbert from a French woman's perspective, 4 Jul 2005

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Bravo Corinne! A sardonic look at the modern corporation and the pointless activity and mindless conformity that goes on within. Most people go to work to put bread on the table and they are OK with that. But nowadays the corporation says that this is not enough. You have to like your job and be creative, enthuse about your company and its (all too often dull, valueless and environmentally polluting) products, and work as a team with your fellows (many of whom are complete dorks that you have nothing in common with). Maier captures the mad (their insanity becomes your reality) world of corporate activity beautifully.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny reading, 25 Jan 2006

By	R. Kel. "power of reading" (Denmark) - See all my reviews

I will give 5 stars to this piece of book. Why? Let be honest. In order to maintain our social or career status, we ended in situation to work more and more in recent time. We work 25 percent more than 10 years ago. And we paying the price for that. Marriages falling apart, stress, are only few of many job related disorders.
There are many books related to how to work more effective, to be succesful, to shoot your career in the sky etc, etc.
But this book is opposite. It made me chear. And the most funny thing is that you will find yourself in the book. You can find the same tricks we are using to cheat our boss, the tricks we are using to pretend that we working overtime (when your wife is angry on you). Buy this book and read it. It will make you day when you are at work. Remember to read it in your office and camouflaged in "Financial Times".

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not what it seems ..., 24 Mar 2006

By	Mr. J. Patmore (Cardiff United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book on the strength of the reviews expecting some insight.

However, if you've read the Dilbert books & cartoons by Scott Adams then you've already got all this covered. This is translated from the French, and I found the numerous references to France distracting. I found it to be more of a pub-conversation book ("aren't managers rubbish") than anything more insightful and ended up skim reading most of the chapters.

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