Its a Job Not a Jail: How to Break Your Shackles When You Cant Afford to Quit

By Robert M. Hochheiser

Book Overview

From the authors of How to Work for a Jerk, comes a collection of timely and time-proven techniques for surviving in an office from hell without losing your cool, your sanity, or your job.

More and more, in cubicles across the nation, loyalty and hard work seem to be a waste of time, and many people stay at jobs they hate only because they see no other option. It's a Job Not a Jail: How to Break Your Shackles When You Can't Afford to Quit is the definitive guide to making it work at work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684804581
• ISBN13: 9780684804583
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Read this if you're feeling trapped

I read this book after a few months on my new job, working for a guy who was obviously promoted a few levels too hign. The best thing I came away with after reading this book was a sense of the bigger picture -- you are not this job, you have (or you should have) a life outside. They buy your time but not your being. There are a lot of tips on playing better office politics, which might come across as smarmy. But that's the game that's played by the people who will make your work life miserable, so you might as well learn the rules and a few tactics. I still work for the knucklehead, and he hasn't gotten any smarter, but until (and unless) a better opportunity comes my way, I have to deal with it. This book helps with that.

Its a Job , not a jail.

This book offers a refreshing view of dealing with a workplace bully. You are not alone. This book provides valuable tips on how to make it until you are able to leave. Going to work should not be considered the same thing as spending the weekend in jail. Help is here. Check this book out.

I wish I had read this 10 years ago

A valuable lesson in the workplace dynamic. If you ever observed a co-worker and realized it's not what you do but how you do it - this book is for you. The author instructs you how to learn and become that bullet proof co-worker while keeping your self respect.