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''Bonjour paresse'' (''Hello Laziness'') is the title of an international bestseller by Corinne Maier, a French writer, psychoanalyst, and economist. The book is a highly cynical and humorous critique of contemporary French corporate culture (epitomized for Maier by the middle manager) that advocates various ways of undermining the system. The title is a reference to Françoise Sagan's novel ''Bonjour Tristesse''. It is variously subtitled ''Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder'', or ''Why Hard Work Doesn’t Pay'' depending on the edition. Because of their similar attitudes towards the workplace, Maier has been frequently compared to Dilbert creator Scott Adams. Maier was subjected to a disciplinary hearing on 17 August 2004 by her employer, Électricité de France, for the writing and publication of ''Bonjour Paresse.'' The French newspaper ''Le Monde'' ran a front page article about the dispute at the end of July 2004 which did much to publicize the work. ==Chapter titles and subheadings== As translated by Sophie Hawkes: *Introduction: Business Is Not Humanistic * *Can Disenchantment Solve the Problem of Business? * *A New Way of Reading Tea Leaves * *Warning: If You Are an Individualist, Walk On By *I. Business Speaks an Incomprehensible No-Man's Language * *Hello, Gibberish * *Acronyms: A Thicket, a Wilderness, Nay, a Veritable Labyrinth * *Foreign Languages: ''No Pasarán'' * *Platitudes Aplenty *II. The Dice Are Loaded * *Money Costs More Than You Think * *They Tell You to Succeed * *Power Struggles: Watch Your Back * *Degrees and Diplomas: Or, How to Make Paper Airplanes * *Employment and Employability: Knowing How to Brand and Sell Oneself * *The Defeat of the Word * *The Planned Obsolescence of the Worker *III. The Biggest Rip-offs * *Mobility: Journey to the End of Your Career * *Corporate Culture: ''Culture'', My Ass! * *Ethics, Schmethics * *The Strategy: The Art of Appearing Smarter Than You Are * *New Information and Communications Technologies Are the Wave of the Future *IV. The Idiots You Rub Shoulders With * *The Average Manager: Presentable and Preferably Male * *The Hollow Man(ager) * *Culture and the Manager: The Marriage of the Carp and the Hare * *Engineers and Salesmen: A Stalemate * *The Consultant: It's Always Insulting to Be Taken for a Jerk * *The Useless, the Submissive, and the Goof-offs * *People You'll Never See *V. Extra, Extra: Big Business is Doomed! * *Flexibility is Theft * *Two Modes of Discourse, Zero Brains * *The Spirit of Capitalism: Where Is It? * *Meaninglessness as a Newly Discovered Universal Law * *The New Economy: The Latest Flash in the Pan * *Globalization: The Worm in the Apple *VI. Why There's No Risk in Disengaging Yourself * *Work: No More Professions * *No More Authority: Take Advantage of It * *No More Work: A Godsend * *The Art of Doing Nothing *Conclusion: Begin Your Sabotage Tomorrow * *The Ten Commandments Imposed on the Middle Manager * *My Ten Counterproposals (see below) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonjour paresse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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