Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace is the best and (as of press time) only handbook to an all-out employee revolution. The fuel of this revolution comes from the reader-submitted posts of the popular blog PleaseFireMe.com, the favorite outlet for people trapped in bad jobs to anonymously vent. As the site says: "Submit if you can't quit."
This book takes that venting and encourages the reader to get angry and laugh at the commonplace mistreatment we've all faced in our work lives.
Through the posts from employees in every industry, Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace takes you through the facets of unhappy work life. A post like this, "Please fire me. I was talking to my boss a couple weeks ago and in the middle of the conversation he said, 'This isn't very interesting to me,'" might lead to a PowerPoint on what topics will hold your idiot boss's interest. Another bad boss post might prompt a lighthearted exploration of the scientific explanations for why the emotionally stunted and intellectually questionable rise to prominence.
The book moves from surveying the landscape of the terrible office (even detailing the office with hilarious illustrated maps in Chapter 3: Your Environment: An Inconvenient Truth) establishing the grounds for revolt against the current office regime.
The already-laughable state of employee benefits, the absurd difference in how executives are treated, and the fact that employers know most employees are hostage to their jobs: These are the things the book tackles with jokes and advice on how to change them. There's also a ladies' chapter that takes a Cosmo-themed look at the complaints of the female workforce. (Bossmopolitan)
This funny guide does as advertised, and puts its acquired wisdom to recommendations for carrying out the Revolution; from recruiting your co-workers to playing mind-games and pranks on your bosses until they're forced to relent.
Packed with laugh-out-loud segments which are just as funny flipping through as read straight through,
Please Fire Me:
Posts from the Revolting Workplace generates an original and clever response to every complaint imaginable. The content always amuses--even when it is rousing the reader to outrage at the suffering of their fellow employed--and the sharpest barbs are reserved for those bosses and companies that skimp on their workers whenever possible while bosses expense their every whim.
ADAM CHROMY worked as a tech headhunter for over a decade before becoming an agent for writers and artists. He uses his entrepreneurial drive and experience to help clients realize their creative and professional goals. He created PleaseFireMe.com to inspire everybody to make their work life better.
JILL MORRIS is a contributing writer for The Onion, The Huffington Post, and McSweeney's. She writes sketch comedy at The Upright Citizen's Brigade. She won an Atom.com contest. Her tweets are on Michael Ian Black and Lisa Cohen's Witstream.com.
JOHNNY MCNULTY is a contributing writer for The Onion and performs at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
