hell is other people… especially when you don’t choose them

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2024-01-20 08:00:20

CRITICISM – Quentin Périnel, a jovial young man working at Le Figaro, has listed around sixty types of colleagues in a very funny work.

This article comes from Figaro Magazine

At Christmas, hell was oysters. But as a famous French philosopher who supported a regime responsible for more than 60 million deaths around the world logically said, in general, it’s other people. Especially when you don’t choose them. This is what happens at work. Quentin Perinel, jovial young man officiating at Figaro, has listed around sixty types of colleagues, that everyone knows more or less, in a very funny book (60 shades of colleagues, Le Figaro/Les Presses de la Cité).

The “presenteeist”, who likes to leave very late in the evening when he has nothing left to do, to be better seen, the “paranoid”l’“hyperstressed”, the “brewer of wind”, etc. Périnel is sometimes deliriously angelic: The “little boss” is not fundamentally evil” (it still is). “One day, little chefs will become big.” It’s rare, but when it happens, it’s worse. We have known several who ended up…

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