Wrongsized: Become chronically unemployed in 26 easy steps

Larry Solomon
Outskirts Press (2009)
ISBN 9781432723477
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (7/09)


This has got to be one of the funniest books I have ever read on one of the saddest subjects I can think of, Unemployment. What Larry Solomon did with this subject can only be compared to a Mel Brooks’ movie.  From introduction to the final page, he will keep you laughing for hours with his insights into corporate America, the job market, the interview and the best one - Temp jobs.

Working hard and hoping to get that promotion that he so readily deserved, Larry describes how it happened. Instead of the promotion he was hoping for, he was presented with a pink slip.

It all began with the Harvard MBA (Efficiency Expert) that came into his office after the takeover. Heads were starting to roll and Larry (being the good manager that he was) tried to protect the people in his department with every fiber of his being only to find himself unemployed.

His story is not any different from anyone else that has found himself in this position (present company included); the difference is; that Mr. Solomon manages to show us the ridiculous side of the situation. From interviewers that were in diapers when he got his degree to the Temp jobs he held, Larry Solomon keeps you in stitches all the way through the book.

I especially liked the descriptions of his wife and how supportive she was in his plight, right down to making him sleep on the couch. Terry was the average wife, nagging Larry to get a job and quit sitting in front of the TV. She nagged him to the point where he finally broke down and went to a Temp agency. What happens there and the many trials and tribulations of being a Temp are the icing on a ridiculously funny book.

Larry Solomon will have your belly hurting (especially if you have been laid off).
I gave “Wrongsized: Become chronically unemployed in 26 easy steps” one of my rare A+ ratings and recommend it to any one and everyone, even if you haven’t been laid off.

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