Used book – Absolutely swamped! or The Paradox of the Civil Servant - How to Do 35 Hours in... a Month!, Zoé Shepard

It's tough being a civil servant! Hired after eight years of higher education at a provincial town hall, Zoé Shepard quickly became disillusioned. Immersed in a world where incompetence rhymes with flattery, her days are punctuated by meetings where no decisions are ever made, reports she has to write in ten days (when two hours would suffice), and welcome, farewell, and birthday parties. Not to mention the "training" seminars, hours spent gossiping in the cafeteria and at the coffee machine, bosses "overwhelmed" by online games, and everyone's worrying questions about holiday destinations and extra days off... A project manager in a catch-all department, a patented administrative note faker, an entertainment organizer for foreign delegations, and a head-nodder in meetings, Zoé Shepard recounts with biting humor her tribulations as a desperate civil servant in a world far worse than anything you could have imagined.