I'm currently reading this book "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris. Bought it cuz the reviews were good and it was the National Book Award Finalist. Reviews claimed the novel to be hilarious.

When I first started reading it, I was like....okaay...I'm not lmao. Am I too dense to get the joke (If there was even one)?

But the more I kept reading it, the more I realise, WOW...these office people are really sad pathetic. It was only when i had the impression of pathetic office people that the novel became superbly funny.

It's about a group of copywriters and designers who are facing a period of layoffs. And all the anxiety about who's next to get dumped drives some of them up the wall.

Here's a short excerpt from the novel:

"...Karen and Larry didn't get on because Larry was an Art Director and Karen a Senior Art Director and titles meant everything. Every AD wants to be a SAD. If you were a SAD you had your eyes on becoming an Acker. Acker was our phonetic translation of Associate Creative Director. Ackers wanted to be Creetors (Creative Directors), and every Creetor envied the Eveeps. You could either be a Creveep (Creative Executive Vice President), or an Ackveep (Account Services Executive Vice President), but both species hoped equally to be invited one day into partnership. What the partners dreamed of was the stuff of Magellan, da Gama, Columbus, et al."

At this point of time when I'm preparing and sending resumes, I'm like "crap...I'm gonna end up like one of them". I'll be the moron wondering after 10 years, "why am I still not promoted!?!" Nevertheless, this is the perfect book to prepare me for the ruthless office politics awaiting my arrival.

Ill end this entry with another excerpt:

"...They had taken away our flowers, our summer days, and our bonuses, we were on a wage freeze and a hiring freeze, and some people were flying out the door like so many dismantled dummies. We had one thing still going on for us; the prospect of a promotion. A new title: true, it came with no money, the power was almost always illusory, the bestowal a cheap shrewd device concocted by management to keep us from mutiny but when word circulated that one of us had jumped up an acronym, that person was just a little quieter that day, took a longer lunch than usual, came back with shopping bags, spend the afternoon speaking softly into the telephone, and left whenever they wanted that night, while the rest of us sent e-mails flying back and forth on the lofty topics of Injustice and Uncertainty"

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