Puntabulous

So my friend gave me this book the other day for my birthday called Working for the Man. I’ve been reading it on the train on my way to work (which adds a certain sense of irony) and it is hysterical. It’s basically a guide for surviving life in the office. Actually, surviving life in the cubicle to be more exact.

In fact, it’s pretty much like reading a really long episode of The Office. But not one of those hour long one’s where they drag out the same joke too long. It’s like those really good half hour ones where you wish it was really an hour, but it’s over in 22 minutes, but in book form.

Here are some tips the book suggests:

1. Conduct breath-holding contests during boring meetings.
2. Plot out a “sick day” calendar to maximize time off.
3. Write your novel on company time.
4. Become the “crazy person” in the office by dedicating your cubicle to a theme (UFOs, Sophia Loren, Dr. Seuss, clowns) and decorating it with reckless abandon.
5. Hand out your own Employee of the Month awards.
6. Anonymously send your boss a Happy Secretary’s Day bouquet. (That one’s my favorite. It’s genius!)

I’d also like to recommend another one that I came up with myself:

7. Change your company’s logo for your own devious purposes:

I did this over a year ago. And now I have the book to prove that it was probably one of the healthiest work activities I performed.

CHECK IT OUT: Working for the Man: Inspiring and Subversive Projects for Residents of Cubicle Land