It’s saving companies a fortune! Sign a year’s contract with a cybermancy firm, and your third shift is all taken care of! Zombloyees for call centers are programmed with a basic script, and can answer basic questions, and night shift zombloyees at the 24 hour fast food drive through are just as likely to get your 4am order right as a living human. There are a few short stories right at the end, but I liked the business magazine article-esque pieces much better.Ĭybermancy, as it’s called, is the new trend of wiring up dead people with software, and letting them loose as the night shift in call centers, fast food joints, factories, farms, basically the places where it’s hard to fill positions at shitty times of the day. With titles like Dead Men Don’t Need Coffee Breaks, Unemployed Playing Dead to Find Work, and the gut bustingly hilarious Trolls Gone Wild, Snyder takes aim at corporate bureaucracies, human resources departments with good intentions, how to make a fortune with a video camera, jobs you’ll take when you’re really *really* desperate, and how businesses keep up with the fast pace of changing technology. Did I mention the book is illustrated?įollowing the technical writing opening is a collection of journalism style articles about the new state of the world. I can already see the side of your mouth curling up. The opening chapter is exactly what the title refers to: how to install Linux on a dead badger, with details instructions of which shareware to download for which devices, how to draw the blood rune, what to do with the origami, and most importantly, what to do if something goes wrong (take shelter in the nearest church. It might only take you an hour or two to read, but you’ll be reading snippets of it out loud to friends and family for at least a week afterwards. Weighing in at barely a hundred pages, you can easily read this collection in an evening. All you need to enjoy this book is a sense of humor.

How is anyone supposed to say “no” to a book with a title like that? And I promise, you do not need to know anything about Linux, or be an IT geek or professional (same thing?) to enjoy this book. Where I got it: purchased (and she signed it! awesome!) Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, by Lucy Snyder

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