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Fake work : how I began to suspect capitalism is a joke / Leigh Claire La Berge.

Summary:

"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 work-for readers of Bullshit Jobs and fans of Office Space and Sorry to Bother You The year is 1999, and the world is about to end. The only thing standing between corporate America and certain annihilation is a freshly employed twenty-two year old and her three-ring binders. While headlines blazed with doomsaying prophecies about the looming Y2K apocalypse, our protagonist Leigh Claire was quickly introduced to the mysterious workings of The Process-a mythical and ever-changing corporate ethos The Anderson People (her fellow consultants) believe holds 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. After a series of equally mundane tasks, and one well timed deployment of an anecdote about a legendary quarterback, she soon found herself jet-setting on the firm's dime to thirty-minute lunch meetings in Johannesburg, giving impromptu lectures to Japanese executives about limiting liability at the end of the world, and leaping from burning vehicles on Mexico City's busiest highway. As present-day Leigh Claire reflects on the inanity of her former employment, we're introduced to a carousel of characters plucked from a Mike Judge screenplay, and are treated to post-facto theoretical interjections about the nature of financialized capitalism that recall David Graeber at his best"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798888903674
  • Physical Description: xvii, 213 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical notes (pages 211-213).
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: the almost end of the world -- Taking inventory -- Media and mediations -- Contingency planning -- Afterword: weeks and decades.
Subject:
La Berge, Leigh Claire.
Business consultants > Biography.
Capitalism > Philosophy.
Capitalism > Philosophy
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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