How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace

by Stanley Bing

“Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing.” – New York Post

The ultimate satirist of corporate America, bestselling author Stanley Bing (Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses) now offers an outrageous survival guide to the new workplace with How to Relax Without Getting the Axe—an eminently useful handbook that shows you how to retire on the job while still taking up (window) office space and drawing a huge salary. Succeeding in business without really trying is easy when you listen to Bing.

Genres: Business

226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Gil Schwartz, known by his pen name Stanley Bing, was an American business humorist and novelist. He wrote a column for Fortune magazine for more than twenty years after a decade at Esquire magazine. He was the author of thirteen books, including What Would Machiavelli Do? and The Curriculum, a satirical textbook for a business school that also offers lessons on the web. Schwartz was senior executive vice president of corporate communications and Chief Communications Officer for CBS.

Reviews

[Anisha G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unexpectedly turned out to have lessons that actually work in real life, while also being really funny. Loved it and will be thinking about it in my workplace and in my life.

The only issue I had was that the alcohol section for socialising was way longer and detailed than I would have cared for.

[Daniel Lemire · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is ok. A funny, cynical and maybe practical view of the modern corporation from the eyes of an experienced executive. If you are bored and want a lightweight and distracting business book, it will do.