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Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly what they are selling, and missing donuts are the cause of office intrigue While Jones originally wanted to climb the corporate ladder, he now finds himself descending deeper into the irrational rationality of company policy What he finds is hilarious, shocking, and utterly telling. Best Read Company [ by ] Max Barry [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This book could have been so good but wasn t Anyone who has worked anywhere in the last 20 years will recognise, with some pain, stuff written here the nightmares of quality improvement plans, the language mangling this is mission statements and the feeling that work has become an experiment performed on us by our less than benevolent overlords all of this ought to have made for a very funny book You know, in the all too uncomfortable sense that we laugh and cry about the same things This book could have been so good but wasn t Anyone who has worked anywhere in the last 20 years will recog...Max Barry s Company is a corporate satire for those that might find Douglas Coupland a bit too challenging One of the many problems with humorous satires oh there are many, the number one problem being tied between them not being very astute and not being funny is that once the premise joke, social observation is set up then the author has to make a book out of it Like just about every movie made that is based on a Saturday Night Live skit, there is painful a realization, which comes about Max Barry s Company is a corporate satire for those that might find Douglas Coupland a bit too challenging One of the many problems with humorous satires oh there are many, the number one problem being tied between them not being very astute and not being funny is that once the premise joke, social observation is set up then the author has to make a book out of it Like just about every movie made that is based on a Saturday Night Live skit, there is painful a realization, which comes about a third of ...I really enjoy corporate cubicle fiction, for some reason Books like Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, and I ll even include Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball by Scott Spencer Company is sort of a mix of these, in as much as there s the petty politics of working in a cube farm, and a deeper conspiracy fueling the intrigue Don t read Company if you feel good about the corporation you work for and don t want that feeling challenged Calling Max Barry cynical is like calling Microso I really enjoy corporate cubicle fiction, for some reason Books like Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, and I ll even include Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball by Scott Spencer Company is sort of a mix of these, in as ...I wanted to like this book, just like I wanted to like Jennifer Government but ultimately it fails and for the same reasons There s just no depth here Maybe I shouldn t look for any, just accept it as light hearted satire Still, the entire story line feels contrived, existing only to point out truths that we all know anyway big corporations don t care about their employees Maybe if just one senior manager was given a small amount of depth, rising above the expensive suit wearing, golf playi I wanted to like this book, just like I wanted to like Jennifer Government but ultimately it fails and for the same reasons There s just no depth here Maybe I shouldn t look for any, just accept it as light hearted satire Still, the entire story line feels contrived, existing only to point out truths that we all know anyway big corporations don t care about their employees Maybe if just one senior mana...This is based upon the audio download from Narrated by William DufrisThere have been various comments about this reader either love him or hate him I happily align with the former Since there are many other sources for a review of the book, I ll comment only what makes this different, the reader With so many characters in the story, I found different voices the reader used for each helpful and delightful in the reading of this very clever story I rate William Dufris This is based upon the audio download from Narrated by William DufrisThere have been various comments about this reader either love him or...Ah, office life So rife for parody So fertile with corporate absurdity Where mankind s unique lunacies are simultaneously coddled and dismissed The things that make us uncomfortable and disgruntled are handled with pig skin gloves and ice tongs, and the things that make us excited and content are considered extraneous to the bottom line Where back sides are so well covered that they re almost impossible to kiss Is there any better fodder for literature, television, or movies Joshua Ferris Ah, office life So rife for parody So fertile with corporate absurdity Where mank...Anyone who has worked in corporate bureaucracy would find something to laugh about in this book which tells the story of a company that exists only as a research lab for the authors of the Omega Management System This should give you a good idea of the book s tone There are stories legends, really of the steady job Old timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for th Anyone who has worked in corporate bureaucracy would find something to laugh about in this book which tells the story of a company that exists only as a research lab for the authors of the Omega Management System This should give you a good idea of the book s tone There are stories legends, really of the steady job Old timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle In those days, there were dinners for employees who racked up twenty five years don t laugh, you, yes, twenty five years of service In those days, a man didn t change jobs every five minutes When you walked down the corridors, you recognized everyone you met hell, you knew the names of their kids The graduates snicker A steady job Th...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here COMPANY, Max Barry s brilliant piece of satire, takes us inside Zephyr Holdings, a corporate monolith whose employees are so deeply buried in office politics and the day to day struggle to meet quotas and adjust to constan...If you ve ever worked in a large corporate environment, you ll recognize the characters in the book And you ll laugh about it Or you ll smirk You ve read another big corporation satire, and maybe you ll give it to someone else who works in a large corporation, as if to say, Look, corporate life IS stupid Just because we buy into it every day doesn t mean that we re a part of it Maybe you ll add a LOL to the end Or say L O L, which you ll hopefully regret saying lat...For the first 100 pages, I was thinking to myself, Genius This is a rip roaring, laugh out loud in the literal sense of the phrase , spot on scalding satire of corporate culture Each of author Max Barry s initial poison tipped arrows hit the corporate bulls eyethe use of the elevator buttons to visualize the corporate hierarchy the inanity of corporate voice mail the over confidence of MBAs the invisibility of the CEO the meaninglessness of the company mission statement or the aimles For the first 100 pages, I was thinking to myself, Genius This is a rip roaring, laugh out loud in the literal sense of the phrase , spot on scalding satire of corporate culture Each of author Max Barry s initial poison tipped arrows hit th...

Company
  • English
  • 20 November 2018
  • Paperback
  • 338 pages
  • 1400079373
  • Max Barry
  • Company