Blagspot

"Ever sat at your desk wondering what the company you work for actually does? Ever looked at your colleagues and wondered if any of them are in fact just blagging it every day? If you’ve answered yes to either of these, then this is the book for you – the employees at an anonymous US corporation are freaked out when they realise that who they thought was a PA actually seems to be their boss, and then people start getting fired in alphabetical order. Darker than The Office and funnier than And Then We Came To The End, it’s this year’s office read…"

—"Read This With Ernest Hemingway," on the George Lamb show, BBC 6

Books as Sunscreens

Great Beach Reads: Breeze Through Our Season's Picks

"With wit and cleverness, Park delves into an anonymous NYC office filled with quirky characters and absurdly funny scenarios."
—People StyleWatch, June/July 2008

And don't forget:

Paperback Page-Turners: What every chick should have in her beach bag

“If you think Pam and Jim have it bad, try spending a day with Lizzie, Jonah, and Pru at their 'Office'-like company. You'll laugh, cringe, and thank God you don't work there.”
—Cosmopolitan

The long division

Nibbling doughnuts and wrestling with computer code, the workers at G.ho.st, an Internet start-up here, are holding their weekly staff meeting — with colleagues on the other side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. —NYT

E.M.P.T.Y.

The study, which surveyed a cross-section of 477 female recent college graduates, found that young women were 23 percent more likely than any previous generation to seek dissatisfaction in the professional world rather than in empty romantic partnerships. —The Onion