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Office Handbook

You think you have it bad where you work? Check out this office handbook. Below is the complete listing of our monthly feature that takes a satirical look at office rules and how they affect workers' lives. And if your job has strict guidelines that are anything like these, then I wouldn't be laughing.

September 2005
Chapter 9: Workplace Safety
August 2005
Chapter 61: Company Sale
July 2005
Appendix C: Summer Operations
June 2005
Chapter 51: Office Design
May 2005
Chapter 44: Diversity
April 2005
Internal Memo: From the CEO
March 2005
Chapter 24: Expense Accounts
February 2005
Chapter 39: Compensation
January 2005
Chapter 50: Sick Days
December 2004
Chapter 42: Holiday Party
November 2004
Chapter 67: BlackBerry Usage
October 2004
Chapter 29: Work-Life Balance
September 2004
Appendix A: Leadership

August 2004
Chapter 6: Employee Input
July 2004
Chapter 31: Personal Hygiene
June 2004
Chapter 18: Foreign Replacements
May 2004
Chapter 55: Excused Absences
April 2004
Chapter 3: Email
March 2004
Chapter 7: Shrinkage
February 2004
Chapter 14: Company Romance
January 2004
Chapter 63: Busybodies
December 2003
Chapter 12: Holiday Festivities
November 2003
Chapter 41: Conference Calls
October 2003
Chapter 27: Sycophancy
September 2003
Chapter 32: Workplace Swearing

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