{"product_id":"surviving-corporate-a-comedy-of-employment-unemployment-and-everything-in-between-9798276690520","title":"Surviving Corporate: A Comedy of Employment, Unemployment, and Everything in Between","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Pyatkovsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever been laid off on a Friday, thanked for your \"service,\" and told to \"stay positive\" by the same HR team that just revoked your building access - this book is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving Corporate: A Comedy of Employment, Unemployment, and Everything in Between is a brutally honest, laugh-out-loud satire of modern work culture told through one over-caffeinated employee's journey from hopeful hire to burnt-out survivor. Written in sharp, hilarious first-person prose, it's part confession, part therapy session, and part group chat for everyone who's ever silently screamed during a \"quick sync.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the emotional whiplash of layoffs and \"reorgs\" to the existential comedy of job applications that demand both a Ph.D. and a positive attitude, Surviving Corporate captures the chaos, absurdity, and dark humor of navigating today's professional circus. Across 75 painfully relatable chapters, readers follow Alex - a sarcastic, self-aware narrator who's seen it all - through every phase of the corporate life cycle: the hiring buzz, the burnout, the bureaucratic nonsense, the post-layoff panic, and, finally, the sweet, caffeine-fueled liberation that comes from walking away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside these pages, you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLayoffs with emotional plot twists.\u003c\/b\u003e (\"We're restructuring\" - the HR equivalent of \"It's not you, it's us.\")\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRecruiter horror stories.\u003c\/b\u003e (\"We went in another direction.\" Yeah, probably toward an internal candidate.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe job hunt Olympics.\u003c\/b\u003e A tragicomedy of rejection emails, fake optimism, and cover letters that deserve Oscars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCorporate survival tactics.\u003c\/b\u003e Including how to look busy on Slack, how to translate \"work hard, play hard,\" and how to survive a team-building event without crying.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRedemption through sarcasm.\u003c\/b\u003e Because sometimes laughter really is the best severance package.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat starts as a story about losing a job becomes a story about finding yourself - in the chaos, in the comedy, and in the courage to stop pretending that burnout is ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts cynical and hopeful, Surviving Corporate is for the overqualified, underpaid, and perpetually exhausted. It's for anyone who's ever questioned if the \"dream job\" was really just a well-decorated trap. And most of all, it's for the brave souls who've learned that peace, purpose, and sarcasm will take you further than any corner office ever could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the truth is simple: you don't need to climb the ladder when you can walk out the door - coffee in hand, dignity intact, and a killer story to tell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect For: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFans of The Office, Corporate, or Severance; readers of corporate memoirs and workplace comedies; anyone who's ever survived a \"mandatory fun\" email, a \"positive outlook\" PowerPoint, or a job that slowly erased their will to live.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46436264607895,"sku":"9798276690520","price":1417.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798276690520.webp?v=1769131285","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/surviving-corporate-a-comedy-of-employment-unemployment-and-everything-in-between-9798276690520","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}