Who Cut the Cheese?: An Amazing Parody about Change and How We Can Get Our Hands on Yours

by Stilton Jarlsberg

Book Overview

Updated 2010 edition of the razor-sharp parody dedicated to the millions of readers who either enjoyed or suffered through the motivational bestseller "Who Moved My Cheese?(tm)" "Who Cut the Cheese?"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609608916
• ISBN13: 9780609608913
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Cheesy? No. A truer (than the original) tale of the rat race

For those out there who have felt forced, or coerced by management, to have to read the book, "Who moved my cheese", you will immediately see the immense humor of this parody by Jarlsberg. Sadly, you will also see the truth. In page layout, writing style and book size, "Who Cut the Cheese" is an incredibly funny, yet all too true, twisted retelling of the small, best-selling management book. Do not feel that you have to read "Who Moved My Cheese" in order to appreciate the humor of this book. It stands alone...and is a much better read, frankly. And if you must waste money on yet another business management book, why not have some fun with it? Change IS good after all!One can only wonder if the sole purpose behind reading the other book, "Who moved my cheese" is just to make long-time, loyal employees pack their bags and leave their companies in search of real cheese elsewhere...and some respect. To seek out employment in a place where the people you work for might appreciate the fact that you do indeed have a brain. Because there is nothing in that book that most employees don't already know about managing change. Jarlsberg's book, however, cleverly uncovers what's really going on in workplaces today. He shows how employees find their own unique, if not sometimes underhanded or downright evil, ways of coping with change, and that change can be good. And the authors didn't even pay me a dime to say all that, although they are laughing their way to the bank, I'd imagine. So, too, are the authors of that other cheese book...I think, buying this one instead, is money better spent.

Funny if you read the original.

If you read _Who Moved my Cheese?_, you will definitely appreciate the wit and humor behind this book. Snitch and Scamper are two rats that you have to watch out for. Hi and Ho are the little people that are trying to survive in this cutthroat maze we call the business world. The four friends' story that bookend the Maze Story is much more real to life than the story in the original book. If I were to pick which of the characters I am, I would have to be the little person (I got Hi and Ho mixed up) that tried to make it on his own by searching the maze and writing the phrases on the wall. A great laugh!

Caution! You Could Hurt Yourself Laughing!

I'm a big fan of office humor books (Dilbert is my patron saint) but nothing I've read until now prepared me for the relentless flurry of hilarious jokes in Dr. Jarlsberg's "Who Cut the Cheese?" If you're eating, you'll choke. If you're drinking coffee, you'll shoot it out your nose. If you're wearing good clothes, you'll wet yourself. If you're reading the book in church, you'll go to Hell. It's THAT funny! I experienced real pain at being forced to read the original (and distinctly UN-funny) "Who Moved My Cheese?" at work. Now I'm glad I did, if only to enhance my appreciation of this little hand grenade of a parody. I'm buying a handful to give as office gifts for the holidays (okay, so I'm cheap). Hint - there are jokes hidden everywhere in this book, so don't overlook the fine print. On the copyright page, in microtype, it says "printed on acid free paper because the stuff with acid burned our fingers." Hey, you've GOT to love a book like this!

Three Cheers for this "Cheese!"

Stilton Jarlsberg has taken all of the most inane elements of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?" and wrapped them up into one big hilarious "cheese ball." This little book packs its pages with wickedly on-target spoofs of all the fads currently afflicting corporate America: simplistic mottos, incompetent bosses, and "change for change's sake." Highly recommended!

You think Deepak is deep? Hold on to your hats.

Whoa! Don't be fooled by the "parody" label: this is a profound and expertly crafted book. The casual reader should not overlook the subtle hidden messages of this volume. I found that the themes and symbols of the work did not become clear until I had re-read the book several times, and purchased additional copies as gifts for my friends and acquaintances. The anagrams, palindromes, and crytograms scattered willy-milly throughout the text are worth the price of admission. Some of the wordplay is so obscure that James Joyce or Lewis Carroll would weep (with pleasure!). A truly great mind and potent personality is tantalizing us behind the nom de brilliance, "Stilton Jarlsberg." Expect great things from this volume...the author is truly a Master of Life.