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[Ron Stevens]

i just finished reading her book 'Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay'

A quick and amusing read although you would have to be a dumb cunt to not know any of this stuff.

The book is critique of business and corporate life where the author advises readers adopt a strategy of disengagement - i.e do as little as possible, eschew promotion, seek vague less productive/accountable job roles etc

she works as an economist for a French energy firm and is also a practising psychoanalyst,yet it's a slight book written in an informal conversational style. Basically the corporate environment is seen as steeped in pointlessness and mediocrity as evidenced by - the proliferation of of absurd buzzwords and the oxymoron that is 'corporate culture'. The more meaningless work has become, the more people have tried to compensate through increasingly obsessive consumerism.

Basically, it (working in business) is all shit and if you're stuck in it you're fucked. She suggests a kind of passive acceptance (go with the flow), do a bit of networking, and self-promotion, throw a few or the right buzzwords around...obvious stuff and i guess a bit lame but interesting and worth having a look at just the same

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[Ron Stevens]