Pains in the Office

50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!

Andrew Holmes, Daniel Wilson

• Publisher: Capstone
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781841126159
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857081933
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Conflict Resolution

What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines... colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You?ve faked phone calls to avoid them. You?ve hidden in toilet cubicles until they?ve gone away. At last there?s an effective way to fight back.

Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hidey-hole and fire escape all rolled into one.

Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It?s the perfect antidote to nightmarish co-workers everywhere!

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Pains—a catalyst for change
• Acknowledgements
• The Joy of work
• The Arse Coverer
• The Ball-Breaker
• The Body Beautiful
• The Boozer
• The Bowel Mover
• The Bully
• The Butt Licker
• The Chimneystack
• The Company Bike
• The Competitor
• The Control Freak
• The Corrupt Bastard
• The Diet Bore
• The Dinosaur
• The Distracter
• The Early Bird
• The Eccentric
• The Egotist
• The Excuse Maker
• The Extracurricular
• The Fad Surfer
• The Flash Git
• The Gooser
• The Gossip
• The Grass
• The Great Bore of Today
• The Idle Git
• The Jargon Junkie
• The Leech
• The Liar
• The Little Big Man
• The Lovebirds
• The Martyr
• The Masticator
• The Mental Masturbator
• The Midas
• The Mismanager
• The Moaner
• The Nitpicker
• The Nosey Parker
• The Political Corrector
• The Politician
• The Road Block
• The Sarky Bastard
• The Sinatra
• The Space Invader
• The Stress Junkie
• The Teflon and Marigold
• The Tree-Hugger
• The Village Idiot
• Afterword