Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work

by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhra

Book Overview

What's it really like to own the company...work from home...occupy cubicle-land? On March 27, 2007, over 500 women kept a diary of their workday-including drama and laugh-out-loud moments-for Water... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600940099
• ISBN13: 9781600940095
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

Excellent!! I really enjoyed this book. It's wonderful for any woman trying to follow her own path and provides that "we're all in this together" mentality. I highly recommend it to women of all ages. It would make a fabulous gift for a woman graduating from college and just starting out in the workplace or anyone who is interested in reading about other people's lives. In addition to stories about their jobs, these women share their struggles with caregiving, finances, and juggilng everything in extremely personal and intimate ways.

WATER COOLER DIARIES: What Real Women Think (and Do)

Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work I have been taking my time reading this book. Why? Because I am savoring every entry. Water Cooler Diaries provides a sneak peek behind the private lives of women; What we do on a typical day and what we think. The reader discovers that when the "typical working day" is explored in detail, there is humor, frustrations and a myriad of emotions that are evoked by exploring the inner thoughts women have throughout the day. And in reading each woman's day diary entries, we look into the mirror and see a reflection of ourselves in the surgeon, the mechanic, the blogger, the mother, the janitor and so many more. Well, okay... this reader didn't have that much in common with the sexy magician and her albino snake... but, boy haven't you ever wondered what it must be like to have a job like that? Never thought about the fact that she also has to clean up snake poop out of water bowls every morning. There are 35 full day entries with hundreds of excerpts from women from all walks of life. ENJOY!

We Are Women...Hear Our Voice

These women share their joys, worries, triumphs, fears, hopes and dreams...a day in their lives...from mundane to magnificent. It's a book you don't have to read from cover to cover in one sitting, but it's hard to put down once you start. And although it sounds hokey, I laughed, I cried and I related to every one of these women on some level.

Fantastic Book

This book is hard to put down! - Laugh out loud moments is the truth. - Amazed at those who were brave enough to be honest & wrote about their boss from 'he double-hockey-sticks'. - Fascinated going behind the scenes of the 'not your everyday' type of jobs. - Shocked some were sad by the end of their day, while they are on their road to success - Cried & deeply touched by those who were going through very personal and hard times in their life (I still think of them) - Then laughed again... This book has such a variety of true everyday stories Great reading.

Fascinating!

This book is great! Every woman's story is fascinating. It's also loaded with hysterical excerpts from womens' lives. Full of insight, tenderness, comedy, and just plain truth.