Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Kieran
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 918412
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0060833416
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3060941
EAN: 9780060833411
ASIN: 0060833416
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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Product Description
Quick -- what's the worst, most mind-numbing, humiliating, horrendous, horrific job you can think of? They're all here. The worst jobs in the world. Firsthand accounts of one hundred horrible jobs guaranteed to make you groan, laugh, and maybe, just maybe help you feel a teensy bit better about your own place in the rat race. Painstakingly assembled by the geniuses behind the British humor magazine The Idler, this collection includes the gloriously gory details of such occupations as: hospital launderette, gas station worker, weed sprayer, bank teller, janitor's assistant, and telemarketer. It's a hilarious romp through the stinky cesspool of employment hell, with helpful commentary from those who speak of crap jobs from hard-won personal experience. So curl up with this guide and be grateful for the job you have...or grab the want ads now!
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 Don't waste your time April 4, 2008
bobb (San Francisco, CA United States)
At first I thought this was a serious run down of the worst jobs, instead is just a collection of 100 individual tales. OK, so I picked up an entertaintment book instead, so I gave it a shot. NOT! The stories are not even *that* entertaining.
Being a garbage man is funny? Not if you are union, little chance of being fired (how much can u mess up), no boss to micro-manage u, and make more$ with overtime than many white collar jobs.
Hey the "Dirty Jobs" guy at Discovery channel is a celebrity for being disgusting, so at least give us really funny stories, 'coz the job description themselves are waste of time.
 Hilarious February 21, 2008
Big Jake (Irving, TX)
I've laughed myself to tears over numerous pages in this book. Each job description includes little emoticons which provide a shorthand assessment of the job. A head with a hatchet buried in it denotes "dangerous", a head with devil horns coming out of it means "immoral", and so on. The book is not for prudish goody-two shoes of the world, but man, is it funny.
 Welcome to the world of brown-collar employment March 1, 2007
Brian Connors (Cape Cod, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, so almost every story is British. Big whoop. If you've ever worked a McJob, you can identify. Mostly.
Welcome to 100 of the nastiest jobs you've ever heard of, the kind you couldn't pay Mike Rowe to profile. Maggot wrangler. Pie-hole puncher (even less interesting than it sounds). Chili sauce bottler. Editorial assistant (one wonders from her story if she wasn't singlehandedly responsible for the nickname "Grauniad"). Door to door salesman (one of which involved the supervisor passing out free lines of cocaine to whoever was falling asleep on their feet). It's all bad news, and good reading. (It would probably go nicely with a copy of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.)
One downside: the cartoonist, who signs as Gwyn, is awful -- utterly lacking in artistic talent, and with no discernible sense of humor. Thus a 4-star review rather than 5-star.
Unexpectedly Foul August 18, 2006
J. Blair (Arizona)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
From the cover, I expected more of a light-hearted, humorous look at situations in which employment is less than ideal. Instead, I found that while some anecdotes are funny, the book is largely unentertaining and quite literally filled with obscenities, especially the cartoons. This one is going to the used book store ASAP, and if they don't want it, the dumpster will do fine.
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