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7556380Fake Workhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/fake-work-9798888904114/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7177064/image.jpg?v=638845095062470000178205MXNHaymarket BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>"[A] memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil...superbly committed to its own beliefs truthful, dryly funny and often subtly moving." Charles Finch, <em>The New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>In this genre-bending memoir, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her stint at one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the country and what it teaches us about the absurdity of workfor readers of</strong> <em><strong>Bullshit Jobs</strong></em> <strong>and fans of</strong> <em><strong>Office Space</strong></em> <strong>and</strong> <em><strong>Sorry to Bother You</strong></em></p><p>While headlines blazed with doomsaying prophecies about the looming Y2K apocalypse, Leigh Claire was quickly introduced to the mysterious workings of The Processa mythical and ever-changing corporate ethos The Andersen People (her fellow consultants) believed held world-saving powers. Her heroic task: printing physical copies of spreadsheets and sending them to a secure storage facility somewhere in the bowels of New Jersey.</p><p>After performing a series of equally mundane tasks, one well-timed deployment of an anecdote about a legendary quarterback catapulted her into the ranks of middle management. It wasnt long before she found herself jet-setting on the firms dime to thirty-minute lunch meetings in Johannesburg, and giving impromptu lectures to Japanese executives about limiting liability at the end of the world.</p><p>By the end of her brief time as a businessman at a fake firm, in a fake industry, dedicated to solving a fake crisis, Leigh Claire had accumulated a lifetimes worth of lessons about the absurdity of work and the nature of financialized capitalism. <em>Fake Work</em> blends memoir with post-facto theoretical interjections on the philosophical problems posed by contemporary corporate culturefrom the inadequacy of poststructuralist inquiry to the alienation of office jobsto tell the story of the techno-armageddon that wasnt.</p>...7171881Fake Work178205https://www.gandhi.com.mx/fake-work-9798888904114/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7177064/image.jpg?v=638845095062470000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2025Inglés