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Books in your Work/Study Pace

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  • 11-07-2004 12:35pm
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    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Besides that directly related to work, that volumes do you keep next to you to inspire/scare away your collegues?
    Some placed about me are

    - Machiavelli for Beginners by Curry & Zarate
    - Kipling's Poems
    - Give War a Chance by PJ O'Rourke
    - Faster by James Gleick.


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    Dancing duck
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    * The Bible and other childrens stories
    * Brainwashing for dummies


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    sceptre
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    I'm not being a smarty pants but why would any of those books scare away anyone?

    I know a chap who used to keep Machievelli's The Prince on his office desk while he was in an elected position. Of course he'd never actually read the thing.


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    Dancing duck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭Dancing duck


    Originally posted by sceptre
    I'm not being a smarty pants but why would any of those books scare away anyone?

    An inferiority complex


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    RicardoSmith
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    Just wondering what job do you do that you can have 4 books permanently on your desk, not work related.


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    Manach
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    Software Engineering The easy part is handling and tracking down software bugs; dealing with managers and their convuluted time-schedules is nearly beyond me :) .


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    RicardoSmith
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    Must be a nice place to work if no one questions why you have some light reading material on your desk....


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    pork99
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    Originally posted by RicardoSmith
    Must be a nice place to work if no one questions why you have some light reading material on your desk....

    Well my boss had "Running a Company into the Ground for Dummies" on his desk :D


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    RicardoSmith
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    Originally posted by pork99
    Well my boss had "Running a Company into the Ground for Dummies" on his desk :D

    LOL


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    simu
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    I don't particularly like people knowing what I read unless I decide to tell them.

    Once, when starting a new job, I saw a copy of Mein Kampf in the staff room. The owner of that book wasn't a Nazi though, just an angsty teenager.


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