{"product_id":"guaranteed-to-fail-at-people-pleasing-a-pocket-guide-to-being-indispensable-exhausted-and-deeply-thanked-9798248642175","title":"Guaranteed to Fail at People-Pleasing: A pocket guide to being indispensable, exhausted, and deeply thanked.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Doc Disaster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Topic - Business \u0026amp; Professional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuaranteed to Fail at People-Pleasing\u003c\/b\u003e is the pocket-size anti-guide for anyone who's ever said \"No worries!\" while quietly becoming worries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn twelve sharply observed chapters, Doc Disaster takes you on a guided tour of modern niceness as a full-time job: the \"quick favor\" that becomes your weekend, the apology spiral that replaces a personality, the availability theater that turns your calendar into a crime scene, and the invisible labor that somehow becomes your brand. You'll meet the workplace characters who don't mean to take advantage-they just love consistency-and the family dynamics that promote you to unpaid emotional operations manager before dessert is served.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't self-help. It's the opposite: a warm, dry, satirical manual for doing the wrong thing flawlessly. Through cringe dialogue, reply-all email catastrophes, chat threads from the pit, and \"policy theater\" disguised as teamwork, you'll learn the time-tested methods of saying yes until you disappear-then calling it kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"Boundary Meeting\" where nobody sets one (but everyone leaves with action items anyway)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reply-all \"Quick Favor?\" thread that metastasizes into a full-blown volunteer position\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dictionary definition of \"Nice\" that should come with a warning label\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Choose-Your-Own-Disaster calendar scenario where every option ends in exhaustion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily dinner emotional labor Olympics, with medals awarded for tone management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning quietly through it all is a recurring motif-the \u003cb\u003eCalendar Restraining Order Hotline\u003c\/b\u003e-because if your schedule can't legally stop you, it will at least document the damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the satire is a recognizable truth: people-pleasing isn't a cute quirk. It's a risk-management system-short-term relief traded for long-term self-erasure. The jokes are sharp, but the voice is humane. You'll laugh, wince, and maybe (accidentally) recognize the moment when \"being nice\" became your entire operating system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love smart workplace humor, social satire, and books that say the quiet part out loud-without ever turning into a lecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47776507822231,"sku":"9798248642175","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798248642175.webp?v=1777996600","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/guaranteed-to-fail-at-people-pleasing-a-pocket-guide-to-being-indispensable-exhausted-and-deeply-thanked-9798248642175","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}