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Ladataan... Company (2007)Tekijä: Max Barry
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The first part of this book--during which you think you're simply following the main character through his life in a corporate world--is great, but it takes a strange turn midway through. We find out that the company is actually a farce designed so that a group of researchers can study the ways in which people function in this world. It's an interesting premise, though I must say I enjoyed the story more before the twist. En la Corporación Zephyr nadie ha visto nunca al Consejero Delegado en persona, aunque está presente a diario en las comunicaciones internas de la empresa. La recepcionista, especialmente guapa, cobra el doble que cualquier otra persona, si bien no parece que tenga ninguna tarea asignada. Los agentes comerciales utilizan libros de autoayuda como manuales de ventas y cualquier empleado de la firma puede montar un pollo sólo porque ha desaparecido el donuts que le correspondía y al que la empresa invita de vez en cuando. ¿Se trata de una empresa normal? En realidad sí, aunque se dedique a algo muy poco habitual y que el lector sólo descubrirá muy al final de la novela. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that they're not about to be outsourced. Stephen Jones, a young recruit with shoes so new they squeak, reports for his first day in the Training Sales Department and finds it gripped by a crisis involving the theft of a donut. In short order, the guilty party is identified and banished from the premises and Stephen is promoted from assistant to sales rep. He does his best to fit in with his fellow workers--among them a gorgeous receptionist who earns more than anyone else, and a sales rep who's so emotionally involved with her job that she uses relationship books as sales manuals--but Stephen is nagged by a feeling that the company is hiding something. Something that explains why when people are fired, they are never heard from again; why every manager has a copy of the Omega Management System; and, most of all, why nobody in the company knows what it does. "Always entertaining, Dufris reads this story of corporate revolt with comic timing and tongue firmly planted in cheek, making it an ideal audiobook to enjoy on one's way to work." --AudioFile Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Worthwhile, offbeat read. ( )