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Fire Me
304 pages
A hilarious, fast-paced romp through corporate absurdity where trying to get fired becomes the ultimate meet-cute.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sharing a conspiratorial, caffeine-fueled giggle with your favorite coworker while the boss isn't looking. It is a brisk, highly cathartic screwball comedy that perfectly captures the soul-sucking drudgery of corporate life and flips it into a playground of rebellious antics. The narrative unfolds with a snappy, conversational energy, keeping the pace tight as the protagonist's desperate attempts to get laid off escalate into pure workplace chaos. Beneath the wry sarcasm and hilarious sabotage lies a surprisingly sweet core about finding the courage to demand more from life and love. It will thoroughly delight anyone who loves witty banter, closed-door office romances, and the liberating fantasy of finally walking away from a terrible job.
- Mood
- chaotic
- upbeat
- cathartic
- breezy
- Tone
- wry
- sarcastic
- lighthearted
- playful
- irreverent
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- corporate absurdity · workplace burnout · finding purpose · office romance · reclaiming agency
- The writing
- Snappy and conversational, driven by sharp comedic timing and witty cubicle banter.
- The arc
- Moves from suffocating corporate burnout through a chaotic, rebellious high, landing on a sweet and liberating sense of possibility.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love screwball romantic comedies and have spent at least one afternoon fantasizing about spectacularly quitting their desk job.
Content notes
- workplace toxicity
- mild sexual content
About the book
One day, a dysfunctional office, and a budding romance. Anne Wyatt has finally had it with incompetent co-workers, a boss who runs hot and cold, and meaningless busywork with impossible deadlines. But the day she goes in determined to hand in her resignation, she learns that her boss is planning to let someone go. She changes course, deciding to try for the lay-off and the severance package that goes with it. Throughout the day, she engages in hysterical antics designed to attract her boss' negative evaluation, egged on by Ken, the handsome graphic designer in the next cubicle, who has his own ideas for liberation from the corporate grind. In the end, together Anne and Ken have to decide what is important in life, and what they need to discard without a second glance.
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