{"product_id":"9781743799383","title":"Girl Friday : An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eGirl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that).    �Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious and moving memoir about women at work, pay inequality and the alienating nature of the 21st century workforce. This is a story about resilience and reinvention, and it is also a story about how we are not human resources, we are human beings.    � Kristine was 15 when she lied to get a junior office job as a Girl Friday in 1975 - she took the job because she thought she only had to go to work on Fridays. She went on to experience the full gamut of working life, from joblessness, self-employment, mind-numbing office roles, toxic workplaces and out-of-control workloads. Miraculously, Kristine clocked up forty years of admin work, and then in her fifties she became unemployable and ready to tell all.    � Wisecracking, frank and completely relatable, Kristine Philipp's Girl Fridayoffers stirring insights into the personal and political contexts of working women's lives, the lengths older women must go to keep a job, the trials of walking the poverty line in later life and the power of friendships and camaraderie in the workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45466141491421,"sku":"9781743799383","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781743799383.jpg?v=1720107314","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781743799383","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}