Darkside Zodiac at Work

by Stella Hyde

Book Overview

Ever wonder why the sales department never gets along with the accounting department? Or why some people always get a raise even though you deserve one more? It's because of their sun signs! This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578634024
• ISBN13: 9781578634026
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Intriguing Book on Astrology in the Workplace

This is an enjoyable sequel to Stella Hyde's Darkside Zodiac that shows how you can use astrology at work for fun and profit, but mainly for fun. This is especially true for personal career management and it is here that this book offers a great many insights for workers. At its heart, this is a handy reference work. It covers all kinds of "natural born" workers ranging from bosses to middle management to slackers and various points in between. Perhaps the section that is both the most amusing and the most helpful is the instant career selector that begins on page 182. This is based on the various and sundry astrological birth signs such as Aquarius. The career choices include both legal options such as being a poet and also illegal options such as being a stalker. Unlike most sequels, this book is every bit as enjoyable and useful as the original work.

If You Don't Read This Review (and Cast a Helpful Vote), I Will Nuke Your Psyche (Per This Book)

"Most of us spend most of our lives at work, and what help do we get to survive?...accurate information is the key to success, so here is the skinny on what your work colleagues are really like, according to their Sun sign, so that you can defend yourself, attack their weak points, and predict their strategies." - From the book I was pretty hard on Stella Hyde's first book Darkside Zodiac (can I use "been hangin' out with Brightsider New Agers too long" as an excuse?), but the gloriously inventive cover of her newest book, Darkside Zodiac at Work, seduced me into taking another look at her blistering observations on the 12 Sun Signs. Frankly, I'm thrilled that I did! Whether I'm won over to the Darkside is still uncertain, but being a quadruple Scorpio--perhaps it's inevitable that I join the sewers with Ms. Hyde. All joking aside, the glossy, colorful Darkside Zodiac at Work offers intelligent, albeit over-the-top, roastings of everyone from Ram to Goat. It's a thorough manual on everything from workaholic tendencies to office politics, brown-nose index to watercooler moments. Office romances are given their due, as are dream jobs, employability, workstation preferences, the daily grind, role models and conflict resolutions solutions (i.e. backstabbing). Solid knowledge of astrology underpins the author's remarks as readers are taken on a rousing ride through Qualities, Elements and Opposites, as well as the three planetary board members and how each affects the workplace: Saturn, the boss; Mars, the CEO; and Mercury, the communications strategist. Here are some of the snarky--and hilarious-- observations served up by Ms. Hyde: * (On Aries' cheapest trick): "You are not one for complicated, cerebral, bitchy scams involving e-mails or IT; slapstick and old-school practical jokes are what you do best, and no one can stop you. Covering a grouchy colleague's cubicle with sticky notes, gluing all the mice to their mousemats, filling the watercooler with fake blood..." * (On the Cancer workstation): "Bosses like you because you work hard and your Eeyore-ish presence prevents any outbreak of joie de vivre in cubicleland, but don't understand your complete inability to hit a deadline when it's standing right in front of you (you're afraid of angering the gods by trying to appear in any way in control of your gloomy little corner of the universe.)" * (On Libra's dream job of Spin Doctor): "It's the old straw-into-gold boffo. Take any piece of info--especially the dull or damaging kind--and spin it into a web of silken verbiage until it gleams. You can do this in your sleep, which is your work mode of choice, after all." * (On Capricorn's employability): "How employable are you? Boringly so. Goats will eat anything--and you will do any job--as long as it has a large enough workforce for you to feel self-important; a complicated hierarchy of advancement that saps everyone's will to live; and a proper name badge..." And yes, even her treatment