'I gave the bestselling I Hate the Office to all my friends for Xmas' -Tessa Dunlop, BBC Radio London

From the Office Christmas Party ..

Once the glitter has settled, the post-party analysis begins. It's seen as too corporate (mission statement in crackers), just plain boring (person seated next to the woman from Procurement), or thematically confused (lap dancer in Victorian bonnet.)

& Away Days ...

Smart, smart casual, casual smart - whatever you decide to wear, it'll be wrong. Women are scared of anything that makes them look like Edwina Currie in civvies and keep to boring black; men usually end up in M&S chinos and look like they're attending a barbecue in Weybridge.

to Training Courses ...

No matter what they say, you'll be nervous. Trainers tell you simply to visualise all the members of your audience totally naked. After all, that's what most of them are going to be doing to you, unless they're already counting your pores on the giant overhead plasma screen or mouthing Visible Panty Line, that is.

& Office Kitchens ...

Middle-class people who hang up their latte whisks in alphabetical order at home behave like slobs in office kitchens. They own cups with harrowing stains, leave puddles on the floor and steal milk and use euphemisms such as 'borrowing'. Their unfinished Snack Pots and rust-encrusted trays with pictures of Regency Ladies make Mrs Royle's kitchen look like a Philippe Starck interior...

... With 446 other reasons why we hate our offices so much ... in the bestselling I Hate the Office, now out in paperback.

'The perfect stocking filler for anyone who's ever wanted to tell their management coach where to go ... alphabetical nuggets of office woe full of perceptive cynicism and wry wit' - The Daily Record

'With Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? Vol 2 and Grumpy Old Christmas actually succeeds in making people laugh' - Martin Rowson, The Independent on Sunday