CANNED!: HOW I LOST TEN JOBS IN TEN YEARS AND LEARNED TO LOVE UNEMPLOYMENT
Book ID/图书代码： 14780009B33214
English Summary/英文概要： Canned is about more than just work. Americans take their jobs very seriously – to a large degree, what we do for a living defines us. If we worship the dollar, the office is our church. What we expect of ourselves and others, what we’ll do and take to achieve our goals, how we interact with our bosses and subordinates and coworkers – this is where our values are visible, not the ones we may espouse but the ones we actually live by. If you accept that the office is the last common cultural space in American life, then it follows that it’s also the best place to observe the national character. More than just a “Dilbert” style collection of quirky office anecdotes, Canned also offers trenchant insights into human nature and what it takes to succeed (or fail) in the day-to-day grind.
On the other hand, lest this pitch become too serious, Canned is also a book about urinating off the top of a parking garage onto your supervisor as he takes a smoke break far below. It explores the question of how things got this way, who’s really screwing you over (the answer might surprise you), and even suggests that working less (or not working at all) could become the new American ideal. Entertaining but also insightful, this book is a memoir peppered with social commentary and journalistic asides. And with the economy at the beginning of an extended swoon and unemployment claims at an all-time high, it’s the perfect time for a book like Canned. That our economy was brittle and unstable, built on many fraudulent assumptions and sustained by a vampiric impulse toward dead-end exploitation came as no surprise to myself and millions of workers like me, who saw from the inside that things just weren’t right. Americans are entering a period of reflection and reassessment, an era of skepticism and even hostility towards big business, and likely have never been so receptive to a book like this ...
Based on a series of acclaimed cover stories for the Washington DC-based independent newsweekly, Washington City Paper, Canned is, above all, a proven success. Those stories (see enclosed) were among the most popular in the City Paper’s 28-year history, drawing letters and comments from around the world, for months following its publication. People either loved my writing or hated it (I was compared unironically to Jesus Christ and I also received death threats), but their response was always passionate. Taken as a whole, I think you’ll agree that Canned is a book whose time has come.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當大老闆遇上呆伯特
超人氣失業話題部落格 - 愛上失業
「沒有工作的日子」
當景氣急凍，求職市場競爭程度已是僧多粥少，許多人失去了工作，但有一個失業已久的人和別人不同。本書作者給讀者提出找工作的建議，被美國人熱情轉寄，成為目前少數唯一討論「失業話題」的人氣部落格。CANNED就是被解僱的意思，但本書作者從他個人職場經驗，失去工作卻看到生命的真正意義，以幽默的文筆述說何謂快樂生活。
本書如同呆伯特法則的職場趣事，作者Franklin Schneider以他曾經在華盛頓城市報(Washington City Paper)的寫作文筆，把他的人生經歷分享給讀者，苦悶的上班族將從Franklin的故事得到共鳴。本書道出了上班族的心聲，彷彿替我們宣洩情緒，以幽默且嘲虐的方式來描寫辦公室的現今文化。Franklin Schneider的故事使他成為21世紀美國上班族的最佳代言人。(Chris)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Franklin Schneider has been a contributor at the Washington City Paper for several years, and has written about everything from honeybee Armageddon to street-racing arsonists. His features about being fired repeatedly (enclosed) were some of the most popular in the City Paper’s history. He studied writing at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. Also, he’s been fired ten times in ten years, which has to be some kind of record.
Format:电子手稿
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