Lazy joke lands author in trouble

[supernova]

Lazy joke lands author in trouble
By Caroline Wyatt
BBC Paris correspondent

Office workers
Stupid people? Corinne Maier says choose a useless job
A French electricity board worker is in trouble with her bosses after writing a guide on how to survive in the French corporate world without doing any work.

Corinne Maier's tongue-in-cheek book Bonjour Paresse, or Hello Laziness, has earned her a disciplinary hearing.

Hello Laziness or "the art of doing the least work possible for your employer" was written as a comic antidote to all the "how to succeed" management books.

But sadly, Ms Maier's bosses haven't seen the funny side.

more... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3935669.stm

You know, I want to read that book. Maybe it'll help me out on my next job.

[slappypan]

1. read it?

I could write a book like that!

[supernova]

2. I've worked in places like that

and I worked with coworkers who slacked and expected everybody else to pick up the slack.

[slappypan]

3. I just quit my job

Corporate America is amazing. There were highly paid managers who did jack squat all day long.

[supernova]

6. Itsn't that the truth?

It seeems the higher up the ladder you go; the less work you are actually required to do. That's why we hire the peons. :eyes:

[olddem43]

5. I worked in a place once where one employee vowed that

he would not even touch any work for an entire year. I personally witnessed him accomplish that feat. (details withheld for personal reasons)

[supernova]

11. How did he do that?

What did he say on his yearly eval? I'd like to learn this feat myself.

[slappypan]

15. You know what helps? Bribe your boss!

I witnessed one fellow, rather highly paid but didn't really do that much work, take his boss and one of his boss' relatives on a rather expensive vacation every summer. Guess what kind of review he got at the end of the year?

[olddem43]

16. we worked late night shift in a factory-like setting

supervision was sparse and whenever a supervisor appeared, he headed for the restroom. It was a group activity so his personal production could not be evaluated by itself. No one among the work crew cared much because the management was so hated.

[buycitgo]

4. author: nom de plume for George Bush?

or what?

[supernova]

8. You're funny!

But I think Ms Maiere is a whole lot smarter than W*.

[buycitgo]

13. well, that's kind of a compliment au sud de main, oui?

or something

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Maybe the book will strike a responsive chord throughout

the industrialized world, and Ms. Maier will be able to survive without a day job. :-)

[supernova]

10. I can't tell from the article

but if it was enough to get her in trouble, seems like the book is doing very well indeed. :-)

[NoPasaran]

9. Reading it sounds like a bunch of work

Is it available on tape?

[Tom_Foolery]

12. I work with a person who comes to work at 9am...

and leaves at 2pm. She also uses company equipment for her outside interests. I've heard that she's making close to $40,000 a year, and she gets all the benefits. That's pretty good for a part-time job. She still whines about working so much.

[supernova]

14. Is this intentially a part-time job

or has she turned it into one? Man, I'd like to get 40K and only work 20hrs/wk. :wtf: