stories at work

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workspace fiction, novels with a theme around jobs
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thorold, nessreader, Dilara86
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nessreader: edwardian painters + decorators; a hymn to why we need trade unions
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thorold, aulsmith
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thorold: Office life in an advertising agency
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thorold, Dilara86
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thorold: academics and industrialists in 1980s Birmingham
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nessreader, bluepiano
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bluepiano: building fences
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nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda
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nessreader: admin/office
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thorold, ManWithAnAgenda
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thorold: The assistant who won't go home...
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nessreader, bluepiano
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bluepiano: writing for a living
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thorold, nessreader
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nessreader: public transport
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nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda
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nessreader: public relations + advertising
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thorold, nessreader
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thorold: The complexities of office-life in a big Japanese company, as seen by a European
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thorold, nessreader
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thorold: Working in retail, ca. 1900
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thorold, nessreader
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thorold: fictionalised version of Wodehouse's brief time as a trainee banker, ca. 1900
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thorold, nessreader
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thorold: Do you know what your secretary is typing? Could it be about you?
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: bad days at the office
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ptittle
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nessreader
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nessreader: pr office politics, written in emails
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: bartending
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aulsmith
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nessreader
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nessreader: corporate dystopia
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: hotel work
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nessreader
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nessreader: 1st half about being a temp in successive offices + never being part of team; 2nd half is chicklit romcom/ensemble revenge plot theme
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: journalism
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: driving an ambulance
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: academic mathematics
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thorold
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thorold: Not quite cheating: this classic spy novel centres around dusty filing systems and departmental meetings with tea and biscuits: the spy as civil servant
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bluepiano
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: teaching
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thorold
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thorold: Workers in a railway lost-property office threatened with closure
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thorold
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thorold: Retail in Austria in the 1940s
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: investment banking
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nessreader
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nessreader: shopping centre
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thorold
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thorold: Train drivers
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nessreader
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nessreader: bookselling
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thorold
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thorold: Behind the scenes in a big restaurant (also deals with homelessness, but that doesn't really count for this list)
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thorold
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thorold: The luxury hotel business