Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read cubicle warfare. Its your best defense for survival in the office wars and your best offensive strategy for achieving your career goals. Selfdefense tactics for todays hypercompetitive workplace by pardoe, blaine isbn. Perfect for every cubicle drone whose eyes are beginning to glaze over from fluorescent lighting and too many burned cups of coffee, cubicle warfare is a guide to having fun during the daily grind. For that reason, weve compiled a list of the only office pranks youll ever need. It is the first in a series on sanctifying our work. As we get started on this we need to talk about some basics of warfare. Maybe one day we will even have a patron saint for office workers. Thats the message from blaine pardoe, author of cubicle warfare. It is a better book than some of the other similar books on pranks, but overall i was a bit disappointed with it. Cubicle warfare is a type of office interaction characterized by playful battles involving toys or pranks. In his high school yearbook, he stated that his ambitions in life were to work for a large beer company and to become a skilled lover between the sheets. Office cubicles virginia, maryland, dc office cubicle.
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