Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them

From Publishers Weekly "Your number one job is to keep your job," Shapiro, a former human resources executive, writes in this informed and disillusioned take on the corporate life, so don't ever "publicly complain, disagree or express a negative view," take more than one week of vacation at a time, "volunteer," or "tell anyone what you're doing." When asked to do anything, acceptable responses are "sure" and "of course," always accompanied by a smile. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Though Shapiro's this-is-war outlook may fit some workplaces, her mercenary advice won't work for people whose number one job is to get a job that doesn't require these sacrifices. The book reads like a guerilla survival manual for the employment jungle written by a hardened survivor ("Do you feel there's somethinglooming over your career, but can't quite put your finger on it? It's not your imagination. It's real."),

She lives in Southern California.. She is now a well-known employee advocate and workplace consultant for Fortune 100 and 500 firms, regularly lecturing and writing on the most critical topics affecting employees today. CYNTHIA SHAPIRO, a former Human Resources V.P., left her position because she grew disillusioned with how most corporations are forced to do business today

Cynthia Shapiro is a former Human Resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. A world of insider information and insights that can save a career!. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them, including:* There's no right to free speech in the workplace.*Age discrimination exists.* Why being too smart is not too smart.* Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect the company from you.* And forty-five more!Cynthia Shapiro pulls no punches, giving readers an inside look at a secret world of hidden agendas they would never normally see

Your employer is a person looking out for number one Christopher Lee Your employer is a just like a person who is "looking out for number one." Also, your boss and the human resources department is more loyal to the company than to you. That is the advice in the book, in a nutshell.. good book, a little dry at times Andy Hoskinson This is a good book, I enjoyed it. It is full of lessons that I wish I had known at the beginning of my corporate career. These are lessons that most people learn the hard way anyway, but you can save yourself some grief by reading the book. My only criticism is that. Eye-opener LaReinaNegrita758 Very informative. I now have extra tools to improve my chances of achieving success in my career. Although some of her advice is tough to swallow, I'm hoping it will also be effective.