Dune, Frank Herbert: Employees reading this may develop messianic delusions, and attempt to cultivate loyalty based on charismatic personality and noble acts. Expectation of leaders to model desired behavior may emerge. Fanaticism may develop in weaker personalities. Grandiose statements about environment, resource dependence, or the value of knives may emerge. Have security or law enforcement on hand for termination proceedings, expect drastic responses and cries of "MUAD'IB"
Add books, reasons, etc, as you see fit. Go!
Don't forget the rallying if the Imperial Sardaukar, which may in fact cause WWIII.
In my case, I'm fairly sure if I brought "Jennifer Government" to work with me, I'd likely be asked to remove myself from the premises.
Elaborating on that point from a work computer would probably be detrimental to my future with the company, as well.
aHouse of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski: Employees likely to be found idiosyncratically measuring and videotaping the office space, comparing their findings with building blueprints. Reports frequently turned in with excessive footnotes and unprofessional destruction of the fourth wall, mocking potential investors under the guise of a misanthropic pseudonym and providing far too detailed information on the literary undertakings of obsure and potentially nonexistent amateur scholars. Beware pseudointellectualism1.
1Employee may find themelves lost in the ever shifting landscape of the office, escaping an unseen malevolence.a
The Game: The boss,will be damned if you are going to beat him in achieving the conquest of the hot number in accounts payable.
300 Signs Your Boss is that Pointy Haired Twirp from Dilbert: obvious reasons are obvious
50 Shades of grey: Your boss' wife may have read it, explaining it in crushing detail like their section on nipple clamps. He then files sexual harassment against you.
Atlas shrugged, may turn employees in to entrepreneurs1
1 libertarians with unwarranted self importance and unwarranted self entitlement
1 Assholes
Garfield Minus Garfield: May make your boss realise you have been completely redundant and unneccessary all along.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 02, 2012, 08:21:30 PM
aHouse of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski: Employees likely to be found idiosyncratically measuring and videotaping the office space, comparing their findings with building blueprints. Reports frequently turned in with excessive footnotes and unprofessional destruction of the fourth wall, mocking potential investors under the guise of a misanthropic pseudonym and providing far too detailed information on the literary undertakings of obsure and potentially nonexistent amateur scholars. Beware pseudointellectualism1.
1Employee may find themelves lost in the ever shifting landscape of the office, escaping an unseen malevolence.a
Also known to cause depression. Possible madness in the suggestible. Present termination documents without footnotes, end notes, citations, or trappings of academia.
Listen Little Man by Dr. Wilhelm Reich.
I work in a VERY advanced hospital and am absent minded enough to leave it on just the wrong coffee-table(s).
Quote from: Faust on September 03, 2012, 03:46:48 PM
Atlas shrugged, may turn employees in to entrepreneurs1
1 libertarians with unwarranted self importance and unwarranted self entitlement
1 Assholes
Dead on. For the same reasons as books on the Labor movement, just opposite end of the scale.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 02, 2012, 08:30:07 PM
300 Signs Your Boss is that Pointy Haired Twirp from Dilbert: obvious reasons are obvious
:lulz:
Infinite Jest, because carrying around a 1500-page postmodernist book makes you a pretentious douchebag by proxy.