Author: Natalie Sue
Published: May 21, 2024 by William Morrow
Format: Kindle, 343 Pages
Genre: Fiction
First Sentence: There will be questions. Ones I don’t have socially acceptable answers for.
Blurb: As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.
When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favor, convince HR she’s Supershops material, and beat out the competition.
But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworkers' private worlds and realizes they are each keeping secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Eventually she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if that means coming clean to her colleagues. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: As layoffs are whispered about, the office staff at Supershops begin to become unhinged. Jolene, an admin, decides to use a white script to leave a little extra frustration in her emails, and out of the blue, they are discovered. This leads to a reprimand and computer surveillance. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your level of curiosity, the IT big brother has accidentally given Jolene reading permissions to all messages and emails within her group. Now, a good person would report this to HR. She tried to, but they didn’t seem interested, and hilarity and retribution ensued.
Jolene soon realizes that all is not as it appears with her co-workers, and her insight might allow her to keep her job. The only problem --she now knows everyone’s innermost secrets, and should she decide to use it against them, what type of person would that make her. Well, employed for one.
Everyone working at a cubicle farm will find this book laugh-out-loud funny. The personalities are relatable, wondering if they would make the same choices and eventually thinking about the deeper costs while watching those around you crumble.
My only drawback with the book was the HR guy. Would an HR representative risk everything even if they felt their job was shredding their soul? But then again, Jolene did need an outside interest.
Blurb: As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.
When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favor, convince HR she’s Supershops material, and beat out the competition.
But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworkers' private worlds and realizes they are each keeping secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Eventually she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if that means coming clean to her colleagues. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: As layoffs are whispered about, the office staff at Supershops begin to become unhinged. Jolene, an admin, decides to use a white script to leave a little extra frustration in her emails, and out of the blue, they are discovered. This leads to a reprimand and computer surveillance. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your level of curiosity, the IT big brother has accidentally given Jolene reading permissions to all messages and emails within her group. Now, a good person would report this to HR. She tried to, but they didn’t seem interested, and hilarity and retribution ensued.
Jolene soon realizes that all is not as it appears with her co-workers, and her insight might allow her to keep her job. The only problem --she now knows everyone’s innermost secrets, and should she decide to use it against them, what type of person would that make her. Well, employed for one.
Everyone working at a cubicle farm will find this book laugh-out-loud funny. The personalities are relatable, wondering if they would make the same choices and eventually thinking about the deeper costs while watching those around you crumble.
My only drawback with the book was the HR guy. Would an HR representative risk everything even if they felt their job was shredding their soul? But then again, Jolene did need an outside interest.
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