Several People Are Typing
Ratings63
Average rating3.7
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Ratings63
Average rating3.7
Is it still WFH when you're now just binary code? Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it's an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is.Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service's AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the 'real' world? Meanwhile, Gerald's co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can't everyone?Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now.
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That was such a fun format but while reading it I found myself wanting to :dustystick: react while I don't even use Slack.
This book was excellent. Such a quick read and so enjoyable. Like welcome to night vale and every office I've ever worked in had a baby.
Not only is it funny, but it's also sweet. Very touching and reflective in some of the more existential moments. Truly a delight.
Awful book. Three lines were funny out of the whole thing. The rest was a slog, impossible to read enjoyably when text of emojis are constantly-mid sentence, and just awful. The fact that someone in the publishing world thought this thing was worthy of their time is a blight on society. If you read this book, that is 2-hours of your life you will never get back. Ever.
I've never used slack and I am def not the target audience but this was a quick and easy read. I never bought into the notion that the main character was trapped inside a virtual environment but there was some lampooning of office culture and the uselessness of bots that amused me. Ultimately, I think the book is hindered by the choice of format.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for review.
