false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631657m/538988.jpg 38401 8 Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly what they are selling, and missing donuts are the cause of office intrigue. While Jones originally wanted to climb the corporate ladder, he now finds himself descending deeper into the irrational rationality of company policy. What he finds is hilarious, shocking, and utterly telling. 2704 2006 Company total:1038|5:174|4:395|3:338|2:110|1:21| 1038 3705 1408 185 538988 0385514395 9780385514392 106 29 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631657m/538988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538988.Company_A_Novel 1 4 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 16:53:05 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 17:52:44 -0800 2007
Anyone who has worked anywhere in the last 20 years will recognise, with some pain, stuff written here - the nightmares of quality improvement plans, the language mangling this is ‘mission statements’ and the feeling that work has beco...more...]]> 1021976 140015202X 9781400152025 3 1 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180300478m/1021976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1021976.Company 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 09:44:29 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 10:33:03 -0700 2007
Narrated by: William Dufris

There have been various comments about this reader…either love him or hate him. I happily align with the former.

Since there are many other sources for a review of the...more...]]> 538988 0385514395 9780385514392 106 29 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631657m/538988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538988.Company_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Oct 19 09:05:09 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:05:25 -0700 2009
If the premise sounds absurd, you’re right. But just like the corporate world, a single dougnut brings about the decline and fall of a company. It serves as a catalyst for the absurd...more...]]> 538988 0385514395 9780385514392 106 29 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631657m/538988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538988.Company_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:45:09 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:45:09 -0800 2009 Barry, an Australian writer, cut his teeth at Hewlett-Packard, and he's never been the same since. As Entertainment Weekly points out, his third novel owes a debt to The Office, The Truman Show, Animal Farm, and The Fountainhead, among others. Yet Company is truly Barry's own absurd satire on office...

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From the jacket blurb: Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as a...more...]]> 6856363 192121564 97819215643 4 1 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1252807781m/6856363.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6856363-company 4 0 false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 19:09:52 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 22:32:57 -0700 2009
The story is about...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 4 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:33:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 19:04:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 4 0 false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 08:07:47 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 14:31:06 -0800 2008 Part of me frankly wondered if I in fact actually do have a real job. Reorganizations are par for the course as are unexplained a...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Thu Mar 19 11:09:56 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 13:27:13 -0700 2009 Jennifer Government, Barry is particularly adept at skewering corporate greed and those who make their living (if it can be called that) feeding the corporate dragon. Our hero, a new employee named Stephen Jones who is recently out of business school, joins the Sales Team at Z...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 5 0 false Mon Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Nov 26 07:19:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 07:19:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 0 0 false Tue Sep 02 21:27:14 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 01 14:23:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 08:38:45 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 08:46:08 -0700 2008
The book opens with a guy named Jones getting a new position at a company named Zephyr. The company - and his department in particular - is completely dysfunctiona...more...]]> 538988 0385514395 9780385514392 106 29 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631657m/538988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538988.Company_A_Novel 4 0 false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 02 17:59:23 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 20 06:14:28 -0800 2008 Originally read: June 2006

I've enjoyed Barry's other books, particularly Syrup, but this is his best and my favorite. A satire of corporate culture that will resonate with cube-dwellers everywhere.

"You don't get to be manager of a sales depar...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 4 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 09:38:31 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 09:49:26 -0700 2007 Jennifer Government, and he does it again here in Company. Jones is a new hire at Zephry Holdings, who is ba...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 14:58:12 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 08:35:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 05:57:57 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 06:02:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 5 0 false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 29 03:02:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 03:02:27 -0700 2009
It's funny, smart, and VERY irreverant. If there...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 22:28:24 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 12:50:21 -0700 2007
Interesting look a...more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 4 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 18:50:04 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 18:50:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38401 1400079373 9781400079377 922 154 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169151982m/38401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38401.Company 3 0 false Mon May 19 23:53:16 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 23:59:32 -0700 2008
Additional note: Life imitates art. My company moved to a new building a few months ago. We ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=538988