Showing results for "Offices" in Literature & Fiction

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

An anytime, anywhere listen, Office Shocks is a quirky and comical account of a young, impatient and opinionated B-school graduate who enters the corporate world and discovers it in all its backstage glory. He encounters a stereotypical yet unusual ensemble: the fickle-minded boss, the girl who got fired, the flirtatious colleagues, the dreaded lunch-sharing saint, the erudite two-timing family man, and much more on what turns out to be the most shocking first day at work.

Aspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect—walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday—to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred.

Trust Fall isn't your typical 9-to-5 comedy. Created by Claire Friedman and featuring a cast that reads like a humor hall of fame—Colin Jost, Wanda Sykes, Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, and more—this is a sidesplitting adventure in the corporate circus.

With her new billionaire boss in town, Sophie's determined to swap the No-Jobs she meets on Tinder for her very own Steve Jobs. But will looking like a million dollars be enough to kick-start a Fifty Shades adventure? A ring in his pocket and dressed to kill, Calum's planning to get down on one knee. Though if Mia doesn't say 'yes', he's not sure he'll ever get back up. Julie's got a surprise for Mark - though it's something she's not even sure she wants.

The real use for the photocopier, pulling a stylish sickie and avoiding Norman the techie: we've all been there. This book is a damning indictment of the world of work and a lifesaver in the office jungle!

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The man says it's one of the worst shows he's caught in a while.

It’s Elissa’s birthday, and she’s accidentally booked a cervical smear instead of a celebration...great. The icing on the cake? Her boyfriend is kicking her out of their houseshare. So when she’s offered the chance to live with a pensioner rent-free, Elissa knows she needs to impress Annie, who turned down the last 22 applicants. Somehow, even after Elissa goes on about ‘definitely not being an axe-murderer’, Annie chooses her. And just like Elissa, prickly, sweary, big-hearted Annie could use a friend.

Lazy HR officer Sam (Nicholas le Provost) and his equally useless workmate Peter (Jonathan Pryce) realise they are in trouble: Peter for lateness and abusive phone calls to clients, and Sam for his over-relaxed attitude to errant staff members like Peter. Soon their worst fears are realised when they learn that one of the abusive phone calls made by Peter has been intercepted.

It's the late 1930s, and even on the remote island of St Martin's in the Isles of Scilly, war seems inevitable. But the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung 27 miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through. When a Penzance GPO man arrives to check on the post office, the islanders decide he must be the undertaker come to deal with the body of the late Post Office manager.

Präsentationstag in der Firma "Wolfy-Office". Zwei Teams, zwei mögliche Projekte. Nur ein Team bekommt die Zusage vom CEO und beide Teams sind bestens vorbereitet um ihr Projekt durchzuboxen. Der Aufzug zur Chefetage in der 114. Etage wird betreten und alles ist vorbereitet. Es kann nichts mehr schiefgehen... oder? Verbraucher Hinweis; Harte Texte - Dieses Hörspiel wurde On-Location aufgenommen. Die Handlung ist improvisiert.

Was wären wir ohne unsere kleinen Smartphones? Wir organisieren, navigieren, kommunizieren und amüsieren uns mit diesen kleinen Stück Freiheit und, sind wir mal ehrlich, wären ohne das Smartphone teilweise aufgeschmissen. Und dann... als niemand mehr an eine solche Möglichkeit dachte, kam das I-Tüpfelchen um all das machen zu können, was man eigentlich schon mit dem ersten Handy machen konnte. Man konnte plötzlich sprechen, über einen Messenger. Es kam: DIE SPRACHNACHRICHT!