Companies, Tree Nursery for Assholes

As I wrote last week,The No Asshole Rule was just released in France on April 1, and seems to be doing well. The book is called  Objectif Zéro-Sale-Con in French.  My editor tells me that they are already in the third printing.    I also have been receiving quite a few emails from French readers, including one yesterday who complained about the nasty people in the French television business and another who complained in the heading that "The Purchase Departments in large companies in France are full of assholes."  Another French reader sent me a link to an article that just appeared in what he called "a famous newspaper," Libération.  The title of the article in French is L'entreprise, pépinière de cons..., which he translates as "Companies, Tree Nursery for Assholes."  The translation is not only charming, unfortunately, it is true too often in the companies that I know.