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Not Your Mother's Book ... On Working for a Living

Each title in the Not Your Mother's Book series contains approximately 60 real-life stories dedicated to a unique theme, drawn from the passion and experience of dozens of writers in a whimsical and entertaining mix of irreverence and humor. Founded by former coauthors and editors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, this similarly styled anthology series foregoes the sad, sappy, preachy, or death-oriented stories that were that series' hallmark, and unlike that series, is never afraid to be a little risqué. These stories are funny, daring, different, and smart. Humor makes the workplace g.

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English
Pages
353

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Not Your Mother's Book ... On Working for a Living
2014, Publishing Syndicate LLC
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Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Out to Lunch; Crop Circles: Debra Ayers Brown; Pole Dancing or Peach Cobbler?: Jim Tobalski; The Unconventional Recruit: Julie Royce; What Not to Wear to Work: Kim Parsells; Man of Steel: Don Stewart; What Comes First?: Patricia Mayes; Slam Dunk: Juli Alexieff; A Martini Mishap: Frank Masi; When a KISS is Not a Kiss: Fred Hudgin; 2 Making the Grade; In Memory of Dazzle: Lola Di Giulio De Maci; Persuasion: Samantha Ducloux Waltz; Not Everything is Black and White: Carol Commons-Brosowske.
My First Day: Erin BlubaughSchool Daze: Erika Hoffman; Learning to Fly High: John J. Lesjack; Losing My Innocence in High School: Chris Stansbury; A Piece of Cake: Ken McKowen; The Biology Lesson: Laurel McHargue; 3 Human Resources; On the Prowl: Bobby Barbara Smith; All's Fair in Love: Sioux Roslawski; My Tribe: Staci Lawrence; It Was a Good Place to Work: Stephen Rusiniak; A Lunch to Remember: Clara Wersterfer; A Job Like No Other: Patrick Hempfing; Sure was Greek to Me!: Terri Elders; Incompetency Takes the Cake: Marcia Gaye; Left on the Doorstep: Mona Dawson; 4 Open Mouth.
Read the Label: Belinda CohenWeather Girl Goes Rogue: Faune Riggin; Check, Please: Renee Hughes; Learning to Keep My Mouth Shut: Petey Fleischmann; What Denomination?: Karen Gaebelein; A Slip of the Tongue: Camille DeFer Thompson; Dorothea's Restaurant: Barbara Carpenter; 5 I Am Woman; Following in Daddy's Footsteps: Janet Sheppard Kelleher; I Worked Hard for the Money: Francine Baldwin-Billingslea; Can You Hear Me Now?: Nona Perry; Double Crossed by a Dummy: Risa Nye; How I Nailed It: Joyce Newman Scott; Awkward Conversations: Alyson Herzig; An Extra Special Delivery: Stephanie Burk, DVM.
Working Girl: Kathleene S. Baker6 All in a Day's Work; The Luck of the Irish: Jennifer Martin; The Entrepreneur: Ernie Witham; It's How You Play the Game: Amy Mullis; Antacids on the Menu: Pat Nelson; Pookie: Brian C. Hurley, DVM; I Finally Saw the Light: Ruth Littner; Minding My Own Business: Virginia Funk; Raining Cats and Hogs: Marijo Herndon; A Tacky Position: Robley Barnes; 7 Jobs From Hell; Jewish Coffee?: Annette Langer; Summers Digging Graves: Timothy Martin; Out with the Mop Water: Stephen Hayes; The New Girl: Stacey Gustafson; Charlie's Angels: Debbie Simorte.
Tricks of the Trade: Cappy Hall RearickJobs Not Fit for Royalty: Mary Mendoza; Crap!: Angela Miranda; NYMB Series Founders; NYMB Co-Creator; Contributor Bios; Story Permissions; Photo Credits.

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Chicago
Series
Not Your Mother's Book, Not your mother's book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
158.1
Library of Congress
BF637.S8 .M384 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (353 pages)
Number of pages
353

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32129717M
Internet Archive
notyourmothersbo0000mcko_q5s7
ISBN 10
1938778472
ISBN 13
9781938778476, 9781938778452
OCLC/WorldCat
908094351

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