Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell

by Dan Kieran

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060833416
• ISBN13: 9780060833411
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious

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

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.