By Emma Sarappo

Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m.

How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift.

Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift.

Join The Atlantic’s staff writer James Parker and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, for a discussion about Parker’s new book, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive. The conversation will take place at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, in Washington, D.C., 610 Water Street SW, on August 12 at 7 p.m.

How good must it feel to march up to a truly terrible boss and unload every frustration you have with your job? I’ve never done it, and I don’t actually want to—I have a pretty nice gig right now. But the intense, vindictive impulse to tell off an incompetent manager, or lose your cool with an infuriating co-worker, or simply say no to someone who’s telling you what to do is, I think, a secretly cherished fantasy of basically anyone who works for a living. This week, Chelsea Leu assembled a list of books to read when you’re ready to toss your uniform to the ground and walk out of your shift.