The Scorecard at Work: The Official Point System for Keeping Score on the Job (An Owl Book)

The last career book anyone will ever need! At last, after all those books on clawing your way to the top, here's the real truth about the good and bad moves made in the workplace that determine ultimate success or failure.

You ask interviewees penetrating philosophical questions. +10
"If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" -10
"Do you think I'm cute?" -50
You nickname your office. +5
"The Cave." -10
"The Cool-bicle." -45
You volunteer to organize the softball team and company outings. +5
You call yourself the company "funmeister." -20
It's much easier than your actual job.-60

From your trumped-up résumé to the disastrous company picnic, and covering every aspect of working life including meetings, office antics, fun with machines, and the right and wrong way to ask for a raise, Greg Gutfeld focuses his trademark point system on the place where we all spend the biggest part of our lives.

Greg Gutfeld is a senior writer at Men's Health magazine and the author of The Scorecard (Owl Books, 0-8050-5450-2). He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.