Bibliograph

Exit interview, the life and death of my ambitious career, Kristi Coulter

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Label

Exit interview, the life and death of my ambitious career, Kristi Coulter

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exit interview

Oclc number

1382261179

Responsibility statement

Kristi Coulter

Sub title

the life and death of my ambitious career

Summary

"A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com"--, Provided by publisherWhat would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity? In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she'd been craving--along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed--until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for. Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality

Table Of Contents

Part I: Plunged. Implausibilities -- The pull -- Hermione in Berlin -- Events in the history of female employment -- Five words for fear -- People are like mushrooms here -- Debris is flying -- Assimilation notes -- The lifeboat -- Professional help -- The red phone -- Part II: Boggled. The land of bigger things -- People leave -- Itinerary -- The flow state -- Inferior alien brain -- Ginza is silent -- Part III: Drowned. Events in the history of female employment -- Amazon swallows -- There are no wheels -- The amhole quiz -- A genius of the nothing face -- I have no information -- The love building -- Professional help, revised -- Honor berries -- What we think will make us happy for once -- Part IV: Dry. PR/FAQ -- Active rest -- Wrapped in plastic -- Part V: Going, going. Events in the history of female employment -- Naked guy wants a coke -- Not the Amazon I know -- Raab or rabe or rape -- Professional help, second revision -- The veal pen -- Exit interview

Target audience

adult

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