Surviving Corporate (Paperback)
Alexander Pyatkovsky
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Add to basketPaperback. If you've ever been laid off on a Friday, thanked for your "service," and told to "stay positive" by the same HR team that just revoked your building access - this book is for you.Surviving Corporate: A Comedy of Employment, Unemployment, and Everything in Between is a brutally honest, laugh-out-loud satire of modern work culture told through one over-caffeinated employee's journey from hopeful hire to burnt-out survivor. Written in sharp, hilarious first-person prose, it's part confession, part therapy session, and part group chat for everyone who's ever silently screamed during a "quick sync."From the emotional whiplash of layoffs and "reorgs" to the existential comedy of job applications that demand both a Ph.D. and a positive attitude, Surviving Corporate captures the chaos, absurdity, and dark humor of navigating today's professional circus. Across 75 painfully relatable chapters, readers follow Alex - a sarcastic, self-aware narrator who's seen it all - through every phase of the corporate life cycle: the hiring buzz, the burnout, the bureaucratic nonsense, the post-layoff panic, and, finally, the sweet, caffeine-fueled liberation that comes from walking away.Inside these pages, you'll find: Layoffs with emotional plot twists. ("We're restructuring" - the HR equivalent of "It's not you, it's us.")Recruiter horror stories. ("We went in another direction." Yeah, probably toward an internal candidate.)The job hunt Olympics. A tragicomedy of rejection emails, fake optimism, and cover letters that deserve Oscars.Corporate survival tactics. Including how to look busy on Slack, how to translate "work hard, play hard," and how to survive a team-building event without crying.Redemption through sarcasm. Because sometimes laughter really is the best severance package.What starts as a story about losing a job becomes a story about finding yourself - in the chaos, in the comedy, and in the courage to stop pretending that burnout is ambition.Equal parts cynical and hopeful, Surviving Corporate is for the overqualified, underpaid, and perpetually exhausted. It's for anyone who's ever questioned if the "dream job" was really just a well-decorated trap. And most of all, it's for the brave souls who've learned that peace, purpose, and sarcasm will take you further than any corner office ever could.Because the truth is simple: you don't need to climb the ladder when you can walk out the door - coffee in hand, dignity intact, and a killer story to tell. Perfect For: Fans of The Office, Corporate, or Severance; readers of corporate memoirs and workplace comedies; anyone who's ever survived a "mandatory fun" email, a "positive outlook" PowerPoint, or a job that slowly erased their will to live. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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If you’ve ever been laid off on a Friday, thanked for your “service,” and told to “stay positive” by the same HR team that just revoked your building access — this book is for you.
Surviving Corporate: A Comedy of Employment, Unemployment, and Everything in Between is a brutally honest, laugh-out-loud satire of modern work culture told through one over-caffeinated employee’s journey from hopeful hire to burnt-out survivor. Written in sharp, hilarious first-person prose, it’s part confession, part therapy session, and part group chat for everyone who’s ever silently screamed during a “quick sync.”
From the emotional whiplash of layoffs and “reorgs” to the existential comedy of job applications that demand both a Ph.D. and a positive attitude, Surviving Corporate captures the chaos, absurdity, and dark humor of navigating today’s professional circus. Across 75 painfully relatable chapters, readers follow Alex — a sarcastic, self-aware narrator who’s seen it all — through every phase of the corporate life cycle: the hiring buzz, the burnout, the bureaucratic nonsense, the post-layoff panic, and, finally, the sweet, caffeine-fueled liberation that comes from walking away.
Inside these pages, you’ll find:
What starts as a story about losing a job becomes a story about finding yourself — in the chaos, in the comedy, and in the courage to stop pretending that burnout is ambition.
Equal parts cynical and hopeful, Surviving Corporate is for the overqualified, underpaid, and perpetually exhausted. It’s for anyone who’s ever questioned if the “dream job” was really just a well-decorated trap. And most of all, it’s for the brave souls who’ve learned that peace, purpose, and sarcasm will take you further than any corner office ever could.
Because the truth is simple: you don’t need to climb the ladder when you can walk out the door — coffee in hand, dignity intact, and a killer story to tell.
Perfect For:
Fans of The Office, Corporate, or Severance; readers of corporate memoirs and workplace comedies; anyone who’s ever survived a “mandatory fun” email, a “positive outlook” PowerPoint, or a job that slowly erased their will to live.
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