stories at work

nessreader: edwardian painters + decorators; a hymn to why we need trade unions

thorold: Office life in an advertising agency

thorold: academics and industrialists in 1980s Birmingham

bluepiano: building fences

nessreader: admin/office

thorold: The assistant who won't go home...

bluepiano: writing for a living

nessreader: public transport

nessreader: public relations + advertising

thorold: The complexities of office-life in a big Japanese company, as seen by a European

thorold: Working in retail, ca. 1900

thorold: fictionalised version of Wodehouse's brief time as a trainee banker, ca. 1900

thorold: Do you know what your secretary is typing? Could it be about you?

bluepiano: bad days at the office

nessreader: pr office politics, written in emails

bluepiano: bartending

nessreader: corporate dystopia

bluepiano: hotel work

nessreader: 1st half about being a temp in successive offices + never being part of team; 2nd half is chicklit romcom/ensemble revenge plot theme

bluepiano: journalism

bluepiano: driving an ambulance

bluepiano: academic mathematics

thorold: Not quite cheating: this classic spy novel centres around dusty filing systems and departmental meetings with tea and biscuits: the spy as civil servant

bluepiano: teaching

thorold: Workers in a railway lost-property office threatened with closure

thorold: Retail in Austria in the 1940s

bluepiano: investment banking

nessreader: shopping centre

thorold: Train drivers

nessreader: bookselling

thorold: Behind the scenes in a big restaurant (also deals with homelessness, but that doesn't really count for this list)

thorold: The luxury hotel business