Jonathan and Marc, authors of I Hate People, are running a contest over at their website. Go here and here to learn about it and enter. This is the deal:
Just submit a snappy story in the comment field below, telling us how you dealt with an office jerk — Asshole, Bulldozer, Flimflam or any of the other Ten Least Wanted types you've find in the pages of our books — and we'll send you the I Hate People!/No Asshole Rule Office Makeover Package. We'll be sending the winners a copy of both books along with our productivity tools: I Hate People! Do Not Disturb signs, Stay Out Of My Cube signs, bookmarks and I Hate People buttons.
Their productivity tools are wonderfully funny and weirdly useful -- and I love their book. Jonathan and Marc are also the funniest and most charming people haters you can ever meet. And they have what must be the best book blurb of all time, or one of them, from comedian Dana Carvey: "Ironically, I hate the people who wrote this book."
Also, check-out the rest of their blog as it is good fun. They have five sets to give away and will award them to people who submit the best stories.
Bob, it is quite amazing how your book and its concepts continue to wend their way through popular discussion on bullies. Since bullies often are high-achieving in some way, it seems to me that the recession will help them thrive, as companies cling to the achievements of these arses, while forgiving their trespasses.
Posted by: Joy Chen | July 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I would be afraid to write. Too tempted to name names.
Posted by: Wedding Girl | July 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM