Grumpy Old Workers: The Official Handbook
Whether we are celebrity chef or hapless waiter, engineer or oily rag, commissioning editor or TV producer, all of us have a whole daily wagon-load of s**t to deal with in the name of work. From boardroom to boredom, from "what"s the point?" to powerpoint, from 9 to 5 to P45. And that"s what this new book from uber-grump Stuart Prebble is all about; the utter everyday relentless crapulence of working for "the man", or indeed "the woman". The workplace is a piece of cake for someone of his curmudgeonly quality. It"s not possible in a book of this size to include ALL the grumps arising from the working day - the office politics, the shortcomings of IT, the interminable meetings and some of your colleagues" weirder habits, but he is giving it a go. Grumpy? I"ll say we are