Jerks at Work: How to Deal with People Problems and Problem People

by Ken Lloyd, Kenneth L. Lloyd

Shares the syndicated columnist's answers to on-the-job nightmares and offers advice on dealing with disturbing work environments, communication breakdowns, inappropriate interviews, and problems with co-workers.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

255 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Alex Shaikh]

Finally, a book that honestly identifies and analyzes that prolific workplace species - the jerk. Organized by situation and topic, Jerks at Work presents the answers to at least 200 jerk-related questions from real-life readers that were originally published in author Ken Lloyd's syndicated On the Job column. The book is psychologically sound, excruciatingly direct, extremely funny and, above all, actually helpful. Lloyd does a splendid job of covering all the bases and every kind of a jerk, from the boardroom to the mailroom. I highly recommend this book to everyone, because every company has at least one jerk.

[Andrew]

Thought this might be another one of those insightful observational humor things, and was appalled to find out it was a slapped-together collection from a newspaper column. I handed in my resignation about 20 pages into the thing.

[Terri]

The title makes this sound like a humor book, but it's actually a very level-headed career advice guide. Set up in an "Q&A" format, this book covers pretty much every topic under the sun to be found in the workplace. I'd recommend this as a resource in every career library.

[Khai Yeen]

I'm still reading it from time to time.

[Rachel]

Excerpts from a newspaper column. Too many tacky cliches in response to the various questions readers wrote in. Didn't like the format at all.