1 option
Fake Work : How I Began to Suspect Capitalism Is a Joke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Berge, Leigh Claire.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Berge, Leigh Claire.
- Business consultants--Biography.
- Business consultants.
- Capitalism--Philosophy.
- Capitalism.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In this genre-bending memoir, Leigh Claire La Berge reflects on her stint at one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the country and what it teaches us about the absurdity of work-for readers of Bullshit Jobs and fans of Office Space and Sorry to Bother You. The year is 1999, and the world is about to end. The only thing standing between corporate America and certain annihilation is a freshly employed twenty-two year old and her three-ring binders. While headlines blazed with doomsaying prophecies about the looming Y2K apocalypse, our protagonist Leigh Claire was quickly introduced to the mysterious workings of The Process-a mythical and ever-changing corporate ethos The Anderson People (her fellow consultants) believe holds world saving powers. Her heroic task: printing physical copies of spreadsheets and sending them to a secure storage facility somewhere in the bowels of New Jersey. After a series of equally mundane tasks, and one well timed deployment of an anecdote about a legendary quarterback, she soon found herself jet-setting on the firm's dime to thirty-minute lunch meetings in Johannesburg, giving impromptu lectures to Japanese executives about limiting liability at the end of the world, and leaping from burning vehicles on Mexico City's busiest highway. As present-day Leigh Claire reflects on the inanity of her former employment, we're introduced to a carousel of characters plucked from a Mike Judge screenplay, and are treated to post-facto theoretical interjections about the nature of financialized capitalism that recall David Graeber at his best"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: the almost end of the world
- Taking inventory
- Media and mediations
- Contingency planning
- Afterword: weeks and decades.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-88904-11-4
- OCLC:
- 1522805675
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.