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ATDrake · 01-01-2017, 02:58 PM

Bargain if you can get it in the next few hours @ $1 USD or currency-converted local equivalent directly @ publisher Verso Books as part of their 90% off eBooks sale which lasts until midnight GMT on January 1st (DRM-free watermarked ePub/Mobi/PDF bundle; payment appears to be done directly via credit card, apparently automatically converted to your local currency if it's one of the popular ones).

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by French Oulipo luminary Georges Perec (Wikipedia) translated by David Belloc. This was originally published in a magazine in the 1960s and later influenced his classic experimental literary novel Life: A User's Manual (Wikipedia). This blogsite review indicates that the new e-book version may take advantage of several e-reader features to showcase some non-linear storytelling, and there's an accompanying website where you can play with interactive flowcharts.

This is one of Perec's few books available as e-books and has been on my wishlist for a while, so is an auto-buy for me.

Darkly funny, never before published account of the office worker’s mindset by celebrated novelist.

A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What’s the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? And should you ask that tricky question about his daughter’s illness?

You can try to navigate these difficult decisions for yourself at www.theartofaskingyourbossforaraise.com ...

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to ideas and innovation. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset?

Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain if you can get it in the next few hours @ $1 USD or currency-converted local equivalent directly @ publisher Verso Books as part of their 90% off eBooks sale which lasts until midnight GMT on January 1st (DRM-free watermarked ePub/Mobi/PDF bundle; payment appears to be done directly via credit card, apparently automatically converted to your local currency if it's one of the popular ones). The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by French Oulipo luminary Georges Perec (Wikipedia) translated by David Belloc. This was originally published in a magazine in the 1960s and later influenced his classic experimental literary novel Life: A User's Manual (Wikipedia). This blogsite review indicates that the new e-book version may take advantage of several e-reader features to showcase some non-linear storytelling, and there's an accompanying website where you can play with interactive flowcharts. This is one of Perec's few books available as e-books and has been on my wishlist for a while, so is an auto-buy for me. Darkly funny, never before published account of the office worker’s mindset by celebrated novelist. A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What’s the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? And should you ask that tricky question about his daughter’s illness? You can try to navigate these difficult decisions for yourself at www.theartofaskingyourbossforaraise.com ... The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to ideas and innovation. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.