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    How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace
    How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace
    How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace
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    How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace

    By Stanley Bing

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    “Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing.” – New York Post

    The ultimate satirist of corporate America, bestselling author Stanley Bing (Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses) now offers an outrageous survival guide to the new workplace with How to Relax Without Getting the Axe—an eminently useful handbook that shows you how to retire on the job while still taking up (window) office space and drawing a huge salary. Succeeding in business without really trying is easy when you listen to Bing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061969362
    How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace
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    Stanley Bing

    Stanley Bing, the alter ego of Gil Schwartz (1951–2020), was the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get Them, The Big Bing, and The Curriculum, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life. He was a top CBS communications executive whose identity was one of the worst-kept secrets in business.

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