by Michael Gates Gill, Dylan Baker
A touching book.. sometimes you got to wake up and smell the coffee of reality :)
I am so torn about reviewing this book. There are some things I like about it and some things I didn't. First, it is a uplifting story. A man of privilege entering the down-and-outs take a job at Starbucks and learns the meaning of hard work and caring for others. It is written in a light and casual...
Much to my surprise, I really had a good time reading this little book. It is a very little book - a one or two nighter. The author writes like I talk - constantly going off on a tangent, and then rambling on and on until everyone has forgotten the point, heh heh heh. I found it to be a very amus...
I enjoyed this book even though the man's personal life grossed me out. It was an interesting look at how a Fortune 500 company recruits and operates at it's most basic level.
What percentage of people hate their jobs? It is high. Michael Gates Gill hated his job, but the enormous salary kept him plugging away at it. Then his company did him a favor: they fired him. Gill tried to start his own advertising company, but it was never successful. One day he found himself in...
I liked the Idea of this book about Mike who had just lost his corporate job and starts at the bottom again in starbucks, but all I could think about while reading this book was WoW what major advertising for Starbucks, the whole book seemed a little contrived for me and not a great read.
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