This is an good text for students such as the undergrad taking an intro course, but it is also a good text for health professionals. These issues come up daily in clinical practice whether you are a nurse, physician, or administrator.

Hi My Name is Eileen Daniel and I wrote this book. I hope you enjoy reading it because I had a lot of fun making it

Eileen

This book was not very good at all. The author can't seem to go more than a few pages without intejecting some vulgarity, and the side bar stories are sometimes just plain cruel. I would not recommend this book to anyone who was looking for information on the state of the workplace today. Save your money.

Bosses behaving badly, company policies that are clearly illegal, work environments that OSHA is unaware of and true stories of incompetant management (is there any other kind) and executives that have no clue.

You are not alone.

This book vindicates the hard workers of America. We're not whiners. We ARE being treated with little respect equally by employers around this once great nation. Where once you recieved a gold watch for loyalty and dedication of years at job, now your 'Thank you' is an early retirement package or top management (CIO's, CEO's, VP's, EVP's) who cash in their stocks with your 401k money, bankrupt the company, collect their millions and leave you with nothing.

You think Enron was alone in this behavior?
Used to be postal employees killing people...now ANY employees are. Why? Read this book. It explains partially why, inbetween the lines.

Excellent book, full of information.... From the cover and title, one might assume this is a rather jokey and lighthearted book, but it is actually a well-researched and very well-written overview of problems plaguing the working poor and working middle-class in America now. That's not to say it isn't pretty damn funny in spots, too, though in a cringing in kind of way.