Office Wit and Wisdom Author:Tracey Turner A handy guide to surviving office life while retaining your sense of humor, individuality, and will to live…Companies around the world have a tendency to take young, healthy individuals, suck them dry of energy, creativity, and enthusiasm, and then spit out the desiccated husks with nary a backward glance. In order to survive this process, it’s ... more »necessary to laugh. Office Wit and Wisdom encourages us to appreciate the funny side of office life and includes: a dictionary of management-speak, with suitably dry definitions of those strange phrases only ever uttered within the confines of the office; a field guide to office personalities (sadly, we all know those executives who punch the air and whoop as they hit their targets); and a sobering analysis of office parties: years of commuting and working lunches rewarded by warm white wine and public humiliation in the form of a karaoke machine…say no more.« less