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Wake Me When It's Time to Work: Surviving Meetings, Office Games, and the People Who Love
by Tom Edel
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing (1999-07-23)
ISBN: 0884152278
EAN: 9780884152279
UPC: 049764152273
Dewy Decimal #: 650.13
Paperback: 202 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 07100146
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Paperback. Ex-library with usual library markings. Very good condition with no other markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine or cover. Plastic coating over cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This wisdom-filled and often amusing book prepares you for virtually every unpleasant business experience imaginable. Originally written as a father's advice to his children as they entered the workforce, it tellss what really awaits you behind office doors.
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Customer Reviews
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This book saved me from getting fired
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-07-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I accidentally had the misfortune to have director of my dept notice me and he was bent on getting rid of me ASAP. I was at the lowest point of my life and was getting written up at my new job on the grounds that I was tactless and rude to my fellow co-workers, who I didn't work with.
I had 6 years of experience in the field and was definitely not naive in the workforce. However, I never played office politics. My immediate manager did not want to do the dirty work of firing me though she was instructed by this director, so she suggested that I get some training on anything to help me with my situation. I found this book in the company library and it described everything that was happening to me with this new company. I followed the suggestion of 'laying low' until they forgot about me and it worked.
All of this happened in 2001 and now it is 2006, I am happy to say that I am still employed with this company and all the managers that I had the bad experience to work with (including the director) has left the dept or the company. This book saved me emotionally and financially, as my expertise is very specific and I was 'black-listed' from getting employment from other companies. I learn this when I tried to transfer jobs and nobody would hire me after they learn my name. I am so glad this author took the time to write this book as I have never seen anything so clearly written to describe real office politics.
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Sarcasism Extraodindary
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-05-20
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great Humor. Sarcastic look at fellow employees, management , and procedures. I saw myself and co-workers in this book. This stuff is all too true; the author had the guts to tell it like it is.
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Insightful look at How People Survive in the Corporate World
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-06-24
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I thought this book was extremely humorous while conveying a realistic perspective about life in big companies. The Personality types, Games, and Procedures mentioned are all too real. This book somehow comforted me because I shared some of the experiences discussed. I almost missed a good read because of the two negative reviews in Amazon. It seemed as if those reviewers were advertising 2 other books instead of giving an honest apprasial of this book. For example, I found only 3 references to frequent flier miles and their use. Perhaps the context and humor of this reference was not understood.
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Buy "The Dilbert Principle" instead
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-06-01
0 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Most everything in the book somehow ends up back to people wanting to travel to get frequent flyer miles. I travel a lot for my job...the frequent flyer miles are not worth it. Where did the author get that idea anyway. Dilbert (Scott Adams)is a much better authority on office high-jinx.
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Don't bother waking up for this one
Rating (2)
Date: 2000-02-16
3 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are completely new to the work world, and very naive in general, this book may tell you something new about the way things work in business. The subject matter was mostly fluff, and was far from funny. Try reading Winning Office Politics by Dubrin instead.
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