"...ought to elicit a chuckle of recognition or two." (Publishing News, 19th March 2004) "...this book offers genuinely useful tips...A volume no office lavatory should be without." (Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2006)

"...ought to elicit a chuckle of recognition or two." (Publishing News, 19^th March 2004)

"...this book offers genuinely useful tips...A volume no office lavatory should be without." (Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2006)

What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines...colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You've faked phone calls to avoid them. You've hidden in toilet cubicles until they've gone away. At last there's an effective way to fight back. Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hidey-hole and fire escape all rolled into one. Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It's the perfect antidote to nightmarish co-workers everywhere!

What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines...colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You've faked phone calls to avoid them. You've hidden in toilet cubicles until they've gone away. At last there's an effective way to fight back. Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hidey-hole and fire escape all rolled into one. Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It's the perfect antidote to nightmarish co-workers everywhere!

What could be worse than being stuck in an office all day? Meetings, deadlines... colleagues. Surely no torture can crush the spirit so completely as prolonged exposure to these people. You?ve faked phone calls to avoid them. You?ve hidden in toilet cubicles until they?ve gone away. At last there?s an effective way to fight back. Pains in the Office will help you identify, shun and plan your revenge on the 50 worst types of people you meet at work. Your job may be awful, you may hate your colleagues with a passion, but here at least is a happy place to retreat into. This is your comfort blanket, hideyhole and fire escape all rolled into one.

Pains in the Office is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the office worker as cigarette breaks and free stationery. It?s the perfect antidote to nightmarish coworkers everywhere!

You?ve cringed at their brown?nosing, struggled to stay conscious through meetings with them, spent more time with them than your family but probably only share one thing in common: the dream of never seeing each other again. Welcome to the world of Pains in the Office.

Unless you?re the sort of person who finds it hard to get through a bank holiday weekend without thinking it?d be nice to catch up with Geoff from Sales, work is something to be avoided at all costs. This book gives you the opportunity to lighten your journey by indulging in a craze that?s sweeping the nation ? pain spotting. From The Nitpicker to The Ball Breaker, and from The Bowel Mover to The Love Birds, you?ll be able to have hours of fun with the people sat around you, without them even knowing. What?s more, you?ll look incredibly busy without actually lifting a finger.

START PAIN SPOTTING TODAY AND PUT THE FUN BACK INTO WORK!

Andrew Holmes is a writer, grumpy old man, gadfly and collector of stories and observations about the people around him. He spends far too much time getting worked up about other people's failings for his own good and has taken up Salsa dancing to take his mind off it all. he likes to spend as much time as possible with his family - at home, with the curtains drawn, the phone off the hook and the door locked securely. Dan Wilson is an illustrator, artist, thinker and borderline genius who clearly suffers delusions of grandeur. he started doodling at the age of three and has rarely stopped. Allergic to suits, Dan avoids all pains in public by hiding out in his ivory tower in front of the drawing board. He also enjoys tea, pylons and riding his All Terrain Board.

2006-02-20 Great book that give insight into people characters at work

I have read this book, its funny and well written by the author. The book title says it all. Everthing that is written in the book sums up how various people behave in the office such as how they get on with their boss and their collegues and how office politics develops and grows. In brief this book has good information if you struggle to get on with people in your office and hate your job.

As the book title suggests, these people are divided into 50 and each is given a name such as The Bully, The Moaner, The Egotist The Nitpicker etc The book is divided in its contents according to who they are as above. A description of the general characteristics of each is given say for the bully, and ratings are given according to annoyance, rarity, seasonal variations and avoidance/revenge strategies.

A really interesting book to read and i strongly recommend it to anyone who doesn't like their work and is going through hell in working with people in their office. A must read!!! don't miss it!!