Bonjour Laziness
Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
$36.45
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2006
Summary
The boardroom at French electricity giant EdF. The subject: ‘Motivation’. One of the senior economists piped up: “She came to work, she declared, because she was paid to.” The stunned silence lasted a full 15 seconds. The woman was Corinne Maier and she had dared to voice the unspeakable - we go to work not because we love it, not because we love organising childcare, and cramming onto public transport for 45 minutes, but because we have to.
This sets the tone for Maier’s revolutionar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752877648 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 075287764X |
| Author: | Corinne Maier |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
This slim book is aimed specifically at French corporate culture but its observations are sufficiently universal to warrant a translation
a warm salut for Maier’s droll diatribe on the idocies of office life - a comic hit…Her witty proof that “There is no va-va-voom in business” calls on not just Foucault but Dilbert to make a sassy slacker’s manual - INDEPENDENT
according to Corinne Maier’s hilarious hommage to the lazy git, sometimes it actually pays to be on the horizontal side of idle - DAILY RECORDThis slim book is aimed specifically at French corporate culture but its observations are sufficiently universal to warrant a translation - DAILY TELEGRAPH - Toby ClementsAbout The Author
Corinne Maier
Corinne Maier is an economist and author who has worked for years at Electricite de France (EdF). Shortly after the publication of this book in France, Maier was due to be disciplined by her employers for disloyalty to the company and for reading a newspaper during a meeting. However, they have since abandoned disciplinary action. For the moment, Maier continues to work part-time at EdF and to follow her own recipe of how to work as little as possible.
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