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title = "Employees Gone Wild: Crazy (and True!) Stories of Office Misbehavior, and What You Can Learn From the Mistakes of Others - Richard Burton"
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date = 2020-01-26
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "fun", "richard burton", "3 stars", "work",
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"2020 challenge"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23130072-employees-gone-wild):
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Richard Burton has tales you won’t believe actually happened over his decades
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spent as the attorney hired by companies to protect them when their employees
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act out. Employees Gone Wild collects some of the most outrageous and
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absolutely-true stories (names changed to protect the guilty of course) from
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Burton’s years on the job, along with his indispensable practical advice on
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how companies and the people that work for them can avoid the same pitfalls.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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Strange office stories happen everywhere, being passed along from generation
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to generation of new employees by old sages.
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And this book captures the stories of one of those sages.
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Some of the stories are funny, some are really weird, but all of them have
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some points in case you get caught in a similar situation, by someone who has
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some ideas about labor law and works for HR (the author mentions that he is,
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actually, a labor lawyer, but since there is a disclaimer that you shouldn't
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take the suggestions as facts, I'm downplaying the position a bit). This means
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that every freaky story have some pointers on what one shouldn't do and what
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management should do in case something like that should happen.
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The last chapter is a downer, though. Instead of funny/freaky, the stories are
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mostly discrimination and the tone gets really serious -- with reason.
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Still, it's kinda interesting seeing that your office is not the only weird
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