Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong's Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551520551)

"Bad Jobs" is an anthology of tales?both humorous and tragic?about the worst jobs people have ever held. This collection of stories, comics, and photographs depict, in gory true-life detail, examples of bad jobs. We all shudder at the thought of our own worst jobs-waiter, cashier, parking lot attendant-but these take the cake, demonstrating just how bad bad jobs can be. "Bad Jobs" is full of wry, subversive tales, comics, and assorted miscellany from the trenches of the working world. You think your job is bad? Meet: The flyer delivery guy who sees poetry in broken glass?from a beer bottle some kids threw at him. The phone sex operator who can bring a man to orgasm while reading Ms. Magazine. A customer service rep who only hates two things about her job: the customers and everything else. A one-time stripper who performs her first- and last-mainstage routine to Aretha Franklin's R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The sex-shop clerk who, when confronted by a deaf-mute demanding a dollar, makes sure he can read her lips mouthing, "Fuck you. Get a job " The factory grunt who knows firsthand what really goes into "Crushed Party Ice." The fabric wholesaler whose coworker insists he never raped a woman who didn't love it. The applicant whose interviewers end up breathing real hard through their noses, until she points out that half of their interview questions are illegal. An environmental canvasser who turns up in the local paper's "Crimewatch" column-and considers turning himself in for the reward money. By turns beautiful, surreal, hilarious, and awful, "Bad Jobs" will get under your skin with stories about how really awful a truly bad job can be.

Author: Carellin Brooks
ISBN-10: 1551520559
ISBN-13: 9781551520551
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2002
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2000 pg. 53