Review: Been there
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2011
Despite all the negative reviews, if you've ever spent time as an 8810, the workers comp insurance code for an office worker, you might enjoy this book.  I thought it was  a funny look at life as a worker bee in a soul stealing big company.  If you've ever spent your first few days waiting for Human Resources to give you an incredibly boring orientation and  for somebody, anybody, to train you and show you what to do; been delighted at a power outage that shuts down operations;  or doodled through interminable meetings, you will wish you had worked with this author, who makes it all funny.  There are great coworkers who are exaggerated but that makes them so much fun!  Like Chester, the okay guy who unfortunately looks like a classic child molester and just doesn't understand why the mothers freak out when he eats lunch in the park every day.  He even offered their kids candy and toys to try to make friends... and just didn't understand why the mothers threatened to call the cops.  Or the Star Wars freak who takes his safety coordinator stuff too seriously and tries to outlaw open-toed shoes.There's not a lot of plot, just a days in the life look at an office worker.  But with a wry humor when describing dragging through the morning routine, finding the best caffeinated beverage to get going, showing  up and putting up with the nonsense of a company that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars rebranding a logo with new hats and t-shirts but won't buy tissues for the employees.Fun characters and a lot like real life but better because it's described by an author with a great sense of humor.