Used book – *Bonjour Paresse: The Art and Necessity of Doing the Least Possible at Work*, Corinne Maier

Nightcap essay or management manual? No. "Bonjour Paresse" is here to finally tell the truth. And here it is: nobody believes in the big corporation anymore. Faith has abandoned us, we who were once valiant knights of the Order of the Firm. Now, middle managers, small cogs in a machine spewing grotesque jargon, want only one thing: their paycheck at the end of the month. But then, what to do? Nothing at all, this book asserts! Let's be individualistic and inefficient while we wait for it to collapse and for a new society to emerge where everyone will essentially cultivate their own garden and keep a side hustle in a large structure, in order to get a small, essential paycheck for survival. This book is an "ephlet" (essay-pamphlet) for the blues, for therapeutic use.