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Personal Days - Ed Park

 
Description: ISBN 0224082418 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Ed Park / Hardcover / 256 Pages / Book is published 2008-05-22 by Jonathan Cape Ltd

Newest Review: ... idea of who the narrator is, but while you might not know what they're there to achieve, you do get a good idea of what they ... more

 ... do all day. For example, they sit around all day making up nicknames for people ('Grime', 'Crease', 'HABAW' aka half-Asian British accent woman), redefining their environment ('Siberia' is on the 6th floor, 'Bad Starbucks' is down the road while 'Good Starbucks' is two blocks further on in the opposite direction) and obsessing over the fact that the last few people to have been let go all have names beginning with J. Coincidence? These are the sort of people who, when automatically asked 'Do you really want to qui...more

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Premium Review Personal Days - Ed Park: Dilbert meets David Brent (734 words)
by - written on 17/06/09 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Before I left the UK, I worked for an organisation that everyone in the UK and many people beyond will have heard of. People who have never worked with me would still weigh in on what I did all day, whether it was necessary, whether it was a good use of tax payers' money. It's a subject everyone has an opinion on, and could therefore lead to some difficult as well as passionate dinner party conversations. Sometimes I wished I could work for an anonymous corporation that most people hadn't heard of and the ones that had had little knowledge of. Surely life would be easier in those sort of places? That's what I used to think, anyway, until now. Until I read this book. ...  Read the complete review

 

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