Edna's Employment Agency

Edna's Employment Agency
Author: Wred Fright
Publisher: Frighty LLC
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

They say that the only thing worse than having a job is not having a job, but they're wrong. There is something worse than not having a job. It is being so desperate in looking for work that you show up at Edna's Employment Agency where her team of charlatans, ne'er-do-wells, and screwups probably won't find you a job, but they will find you some laughs as they loudly discuss their sex lives, fake drug tests, break into the office, burn down the office, dig donuts out of the trash, get punched in the face, make fun of resumes, drag coworkers into the restroom, hide under desks, get drunk, look for better jobs themselves, treat cancer as a bad excuse for missing work, plot their way through office politics using bagels, take smoke breaks during their smoke breaks, watch training videos from the 1980s, use copious amounts of profanity to prepare for meetings, engage in slapstick to express their status, war against the I.T. department, fume that people who don't even know how to spell make more money than they do, and, sometimes--just sometimes--, actually work. And that's just the staff of the staffing firm. Then there are the temps . . . You'll meet them all in Edna's Employment Agency, the book you shouldn't bring to a job interview because you're dressed nicely, so you don't want to piss yourself laughing. Unless, you know, it's that kind of job . . . If you like television shows such as The Office and Parks And Recreation, then you likely will enjoy this novel of workplace humor.

Fast Guy Slows Down

Fast Guy Slows Down
Author: Wred Fright
Publisher: Frighty LLC
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Superman was first published in 1938, so how come he still looks to be about 25 years old in the stories set in 2022? Ditto for all the other superheroes from The Golden Age Of Comics still being published today. Why isn't Captain America collecting Social Security? Why isn't The Flash using a walker to get around? Why isn't The Human Torch complaining about his hip replacement? Why isn't Wonder Woman deciding what Medicare plan she wants? Why isn't Batman retired? Why isn't Plastic Man stretching his dollars to afford his nursing home bills? Why isn't The Green Lantern The Green Flashlight by now? Er, never mind about that last question. But the answer to the other ones is money. As long as the corporate comics companies can milk money out of them, these characters will be kept forever young, aside from the occasional "imaginary story" or whatnot. But in stunting their growth, only half the story gets told. What does happen when a superhero ages with the times and eventually becomes elderly? What's so super about getting old? Well, it probably beats being dead. Just ask Bucky. Er, never mind. Anyway, leave it to one of America's worstselling authors who hasn't given up yet to venture in and tell the rest of the superhero story. In the case of Harry Fox, the superhero known as Fast Guy, he finds he can't outrace time or death. His worst foe though is an existential crisis brought on by saving the world numerous times only to have it result in a shallow, selfish place populated mainly by morons and jerks, and sometimes even moronic jerks and jerky morons. Living alone in his old ranch house in a town filled with new McMansions, he is wondering what to do with himself and worrying about what will happen to the world when he is gone. And the reader is left wondering if Harry is really a superhero. Although he claims he's saved the world more times than he can remember from nuclear annihilation, he delights in pooping on world leaders, which sounds more like a supervillain, or, at the very least, a person with issues than it does a superhero. Or maybe he's just a lonely old man with a very active imagination. In a world less than super, can a senior citizen still be a hero? Find out in Fast Guy Slows Down!

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Illinois. Dept. of Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1926
Genre: Labor
ISBN:

Report for 1946/48, issued in 2 pts., covers only two divisions: pt. 1, Division of Unemployment Compensation; pt. 2, State Employment Service.

Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August

Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August
Author: Myra Beth Young Armstead
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252068010

Documents the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island - towns that provided a recurring season of expanded employment opportunities, enhanced social life, cosmopolitan experience, and, in a good year, enough money to last through the winter.