Work Satire

"Narrated with wry undertones by Helen Laser... [who] takes Clo’s wry and self-injurious attitude and makes her relatable instead of unlikeable. [Laser] can fluidly vacillate from the “showhorse” privileged voice of Davis to the “workhorses” like Clo who endure dysmorphia and private...

Have you ever lost a friend, family member, or coworker to full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)? 🚨 Do you know someone who hyperventilates at the mention of "Trump 2024?" 🚨 Have you witnessed a meltdown over the mere sight of a red hat? 🚨 Do you fear that political sanity is becoming an endangered species? If so, this book is for you. Welcome to The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook—the hilarious, yet shockingly practical, guide that will help you navigate the outrage-fueled madness of modern political discourse.Inside The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook, you’ll ...

What’s a white knight to do when his princess is causing utter havoc, leading in mass murder? Go to the famous Black Sorcerer of Grimslock for help, apparently. What’s a black sorcerer to do when the white knight comes to him for help? Keep him, naturally.

Welcome to a professional development book that absolutely should not count as professional development. If you have ever: reread an email five times before replying “Thanks.” attended a meeting about a meeting that scheduled another meeting carefully planned to begin work tomorrow opened a document to prepare to think about editing it felt exhausted despite accomplishing mostly emotional labor …then congratulations — you are already highly trained in modern productivity. This book is not about laziness. It is about the invisible effort surrounding work: the preparation, ...

Heaven is not what anyone expected—especially Elliott, a chronically overworked middle manager who wakes up in the afterlife to discover the system is held together with sticky notes, misfiled tickets, and badly labeled heavens. Instead of harps and clouds, he’s reassigned to “Dog Heaven,” where the goodest boys have performance reviews, squeaky toys have seniority, and even tennis balls have halos. When Elliott uncovers neighboring heavens—Bird Heaven, Fish Heaven, Zoo Heaven, and a mysterious department for “Cat‑Adjacent Things”—he realizes the entire operation runs like...

Fantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results from the acclaimed author of the “timeless and original” (The New York Times) The Body Scout. Perennially single, socially awkward, and...

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

How to Make RVUs Work for You (Without Losing Your Mind or Your Sense of Humor) By Janel Lynch, MD If you've ever stared at your productivity report wondering if RVUs are a billing metric or a form of ancient torture—this book is for you. How to Make RVUs Work for You, takes you on a hilariously honest journey through the world of Relative Value Units—the three-letter acronym that runs your clinical life (but no one ever taught you how to decode). With wit, wisdom, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, this book peels back the curtain on the most mysterious of healthcare performance measures. ...

Confessions of a System Administrator by Dean McIntyre Edgar has engineered his life for silence. He lives in a ground-floor apartment where no one walks beneath him. He works in IT, where success means nothing breaks loudly enough to attract attention. He keeps systems running. He avoids friction. He remains invisible. Two floors above him, a former attorney named Darren has abandoned a safe career to write a novel full time. While Edgar maintains servers and dodges office politics, Darren spends twelve hours a day alone with his manuscript—no backup plan, no safety net. Then someone ...

If Resumes Were Honest peels back the corporate curtain and exposes the real workplace heroes — the snack-station lurkers, meeting addicts, drama llamas, credit thieves, procrastinators, overcomplicators, bathroom disappearers, and every coworker who has ever made you wonder, “How are you still employed?” In this brutally funny satire from Tank B. Empty, you’ll discover what 25 workplace characters would actually write on their résumés if honesty were mandatory: ✔ The Snack Station Lurker who has logged 8,000+ hours of break room loitering ✔ The Yes-Man who agrees with ...

A Definitive Guide for Workaholics! Workaholics make the world go round but we are often misunderstood and underappreciated! Do your friends and family ever: Tell you to relax Try to take your phone away Expect you to spend time with them Want you to take a vacation If these issues sound familiar, you need this book! Learn valuable tips to keep work at the forefront of any situation! After all, if we all worked 9-to-5 jobs, nothing would get done!

During an upturn in the economy, faced with a downturn in the soul buying business, The Devil resorts to telemarketing.

Funny, sometimes sad, often strange, short stories. Ben's laughs begin when his first interview to try and join the Royal Air Force, doesn't exactly go according to plan. Instead of being hired to protect the country, Ben was named among the new intake at his local Fine Fare in 1977. Here, Ben would learn to protect shoppers from rotten eggs and expired yogurts, before launching himself into the exciting world of shoe shops and the insurance industry. Each step of the way carefully negotiated in the best shoes Curtess could offer. Always looking for the humour at work, especially in the ...

They strut, they shout, they promise paradise tomorrow if only you give them everything today. But here’s the truth tyrants don’t want you to notice: they’re not original. They’re lazy magicians recycling the same tired scams. 🃏 In Tyranny For You, Poor Richard exposes how authoritarians manipulate fear, twist truth, and gaslight nations — and, most importantly, how you can spot the tricks, decode the playbook, and resist tyranny (old tricks, new dogs).🔥 Inside, you’ll discover how to: Unmask Fear as Control 😱 — why panic is a leash, not power. Learn how “fear ...

"Progress on the P-Fiver" is also available in the full-length collection Easy Money & Other Stories. Sometimes you think your workday can't get any worse... and then it does. Angie and Patty are having one of those days. Sometimes a bad habit turns out to be a blessing. “So what are we, the last two smokers in all of Elmwood Hills Office Park, or what,” Angie asked. “Are you kiddin, Angie,” Patty said. “We’re the last two smokers on all of Long Island!” She took a puff, exhaled, then hugged herself and shivered. “Sometimes it seems like it,” Angie agreed. “Last real, ...

Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, for God so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten daughter, Candice…She hasn’t spoken to him since. On her 28th birthday, Jesus and Satan sit down with their militant baby sister, Candice, still not pleased she was drafted into the family business and determined to carve out her own niche in the firmament.

Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing for Men as an allegorical story about a man’s quest to become a world-famous fisherman - without ever catching any fish. As an allegory about evangelism, this audiobook is not about fishing, but about fishing for men.

Welcome to the Bureaucratic Thunderdome - where inboxes multiply, meetings devour hours, and HR is always watching (probably from behind a Ficus). This isn’t another bland career guide. It’s a fluorescent-lit survival manifesto - part laugh-out-loud satire, part coping handbook. It’s for anyone who has ever typed “Happy Monday!” through clenched teeth while contemplating a fake fire drill. Inside, you’ll discover: 🏢 Work-Life Balance: The tightrope walk between Zoom calls and toddler interruptions. 🤪 HR Decoded: Translation guides for “Let’s touch base” (lawyer up). ...

Ken Masters dreams of being a hero—a hairy-chested adventurer laughing at danger, collecting Nobel Prizes, and winning the love of a tender goddess. In reality, he’s an awkward professor, lecturing bored students at Prairie University in Hickory Flats. Then fate strikes. Inspired by Ken’s otherwise overlooked research, Shamgar Van der Meer, the world’s richest man, sweeps Ken off to Africa as his Director of Exploration, hunting a rare-earth mineral that might change the balance of world power—or might not exist at all. Caught between the corporate greed of Biff Jezos’ Omnizon, ...

In Which the Coffee is Black, the Rain is Eternal, and the Future is a Joke In the brooding city of Invercrane—where the buildings lean like they’re whispering secrets and the fog never quite clears its throat—a streetlamp flickered like it owed someone money. Somewhere, a crow laughed. Or choked. Hard to tell with crows. Three figures stood in a semi-circle outside a coffee shop called The Weird Brew. It was two hours past closing, and the neon sign buzzed like a drunk bee trying to remember its name. The windows were fogged, smeared with occult symbols traced in espresso foam and, ...