Hardly Working: The Overachieving Underperformer's Guide to Doing as Little as Possible in the Office

By Chris Morran

This is the story of Stevenson's Pacific travels on the Casco and the Equator. It is a beautifully observed account of island peoples and their life; it is also the story of the beginning of his love affair with the Pacific, and of his growing commitment to the island cause. In the South Seas has been described as "the most solid of Stevenson's general writings;" it is certainly his least known book as well as a unique gem of Pacific literature, and richly deserves to be rediscovered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689874774
• ISBN13: 9780689874772
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Gallery
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Are You Searching Amazon in Your Own Time? You are! Then You Desperately Need This Manual to Teach

Wow there's was so much I didn't know before reading this. Here I've been wasting my own personal time reading books and reviewing them at home when I could have been doing these very things at work instead of doing actual boring tedious work. Inside this handy manual are lots of helpful advice on how to appear busy (a cluttered desk is a good thing), how to come in late or leave early with the boss none the wiser, and how to catch up on that much needed sleep and still get promoted. The most brilliant chapter explained (with diagrams) how to sleep and get away with it. You sleep on the floor with your feet against the door so you'll be woken by intruders as they try and open the door. If you surround yourself with stationary you can pretend you dropped it and are picking it up or even if you don't that you must have fainted (and you can probably get the rest of the afternoon off as they send you home). This is an excellent parody book of all the business, office and administration books out there that try and make you a better worker. Of course I don't really know that too many of Chris Morran's ideas would work too often in the real world but if you're prepared to try them out then I guess you can't really complain if you get fired. A good laugh and good buy to leave on a slack worker's desk and when they notice it pretend the boss said he/she found it nearby and assumed it was there's as they've been doing most of these things. That's where you'll get the real laughs.

Office humor at it's best...

Well from what I can say, being an employee in the corporate environment, this book is pretty entertaining. A lot of the humor in this little "guide" seems like something out of the movie Office Space. It basically details how to do as little as possible, while getting credit for as much as possible, in the most humorous way. If you've ever worked, still work, or want to work in the corporate world, take a look at this for a quick laugh.