A little bit tricky for the self-employed.

I really, really enjoyed Graham Roumieu's very short, very funny, very strange book of doodles titled 101 Ways to Kill Your Boss. Because it can be read through in about fifteen minutes, I'd highly advise taking it along to work and perusing it while you eat your lunch. Plus, what boss isn't going to be a little more careful around you if they see a book with that title on your desk?

Do check it out. Some of the comics are hilarious, some are weird, and some are deeply disturbing. (Okay, they're all deeply disturbing.) My favorite? The one where an employee has just decapitated his boss into a file cabinet drawer marked "Heads." The librarian in me thrills to the classification and neatness of the solution.

Comments

[lesbrarian]

Yes, but how do I go about requesting it at the library without, you know, alerting my boss?

[Citizen Reader]

Ah, Lesbrarian. Also tricky. Perhaps I learned this from requesting a variety of my own health titles:
"It's for my sister/mother/cousin/friend."

Sure, everyone knows better, but appearances are maintained.

[Heather (errantdreams)]

Hmm. I must get this for my husband, who will take great delight in sharing it with his (thankfully humor-enabled) boss.

[Citizen Reader]

Heather,
It is very, very amusing, but I would suggest your husband peruse it before sharing, no matter how humor-enabled his boss. There's humor enabled, and then there's boss's heads in a file cabinet drawer marked for that purpose.

[Pop Tart]

Not just related to bosses - but when I get especially irritated I imagine people as Pez dispensers and I picture myself popping off their heads.

[Citizen Reader]

Pop Tart:
Tee hee. I do the same thing but I picture them as dandelions.

I don't know whether to be amused or scared that we share a fantasy that involves popping peoples' heads off. I'm going to go with amused.