C.'s review
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
by Dan Kennedy
C.'s review
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
C.'s review
rating:
A memoir about a short-lived middle-management advertising job at a major record label in the early '00s; right as the label starts to suffer financially, probably because of downloading.
The author presents himself as this awkward screw-up who stumbled into a full-time job through a little freelance work and a lot of dumb luck. As soon as he gets the job, he sets himself apart from his coworkers, projecting an aloof attitude. Reading it, I got the feeling that he wanted to seem "cooler" than the other middle managers; the uncle with the motorcycle, the tattooed stepmom, but the office peon in me calls bullshit on that. He is as guilty as the rest.
But he knows it, and often points out how the executive assistants and lower-level employees are over-worked and much more knowledgeable than their bosses. Thank you, you're right. But you're still. one. of. our. bosses.
It is odd that the narrator's peers have been on track for such jobs since they graduated college, and...more
The author presents himself as this awkward screw-up who stumbled into a full-time job through a little freelance work and a lot of dumb luck. As soon as he gets the job, he sets himself apart from his coworkers, projecting an aloof attitude. Reading it, I got the feeling that he wanted to seem "cooler" than the other middle managers; the uncle with the motorcycle, the tattooed stepmom, but the office peon in me calls bullshit on that. He is as guilty as the rest.
But he knows it, and often points out how the executive assistants and lower-level employees are over-worked and much more knowledgeable than their bosses. Thank you, you're right. But you're still. one. of. our. bosses.
It is odd that the narrator's peers have been on track for such jobs since they graduated college, and...more
