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edition:Paperback
category: Humor
published: Sep 1998
ISBN:9781551520551
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Bad Jobs

My Last Shift at Albert Wong's Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace

edited by Carellin Brooks

tagged: essays
Description

Bad Jobs is an anthology of tales--both humorous and tragic--about the worst jobs people have ever held.
This collection of stories, comics, and photographs depict, in gory true-life detail, examples of bad jobs. We all shudder at the thought of our own worst jobs-waiter, cashier, parking lot attendant-but these take the cake, demonstrating just how bad bad jobs can be.
Bad Jobs is full of wry, subversive tales, comics, and assorted miscellany from the trenches of the working world. You think your job is bad? Meet:
The flyer delivery guy who sees poetry in broken glass--from a beer bottle some kids threw at him. The phone sex operator who can bring a man to orgasm while reading Ms. Magazine. A customer service rep who only hates two things about her job: the customers and everything else. A one-time stripper who performs her first- and last-mainstage routine to Aretha Franklin's R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
The sex-shop clerk who, when confronted by a deaf-mute demanding a dollar, makes sure he can read her lips mouthing, "Fuck you. Get a job!" The factory grunt who knows firsthand what really goes into "Crushed Party Ice." The fabric wholesaler whose coworker insists he never raped a woman who didn't love it. The applicant whose interviewers end up breathing real hard through their noses, until she points out that half of their interview questions are illegal. An environmental canvasser who turns up in the local paper's "Crimewatch" column-and considers turning himself in for the reward money.
By turns beautiful, surreal, hilarious, and awful, Bad Jobs will get under your skin with stories about how really awful a truly bad job can be.

About the Author

Carellin Brooks teaches at UBC. She is the co-editor, with Brett Josef Grubisic, of Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (Arsenal Pulp Press) and editor of Bad Jobs (Arsenal Pulp Press). She is also the author of Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity and the Text (UBC Press) and Wreck Beach (New Star Books). She lives in Vancouver.

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