Author : Sidin Vadakut, a former management consulting guy from IIMA,turned writer.The author has an interesting humorous blog called Domain Maximus, which you might like to check out.
Genre: satire
Themes: office culture,IIM,management consulting,mallu networking,dorks
Formats available: Paperback
My Rating: 3.5/5
I picked up Dork for some light holiday reading during my trip to Yelagiri. It turned out to be a good random pick,and I spent an enjoyable evening with this book,sitting on my park swing in Zeenat Taj Resorts in Yelagiri.
Robin 'Einstein' Varghese is a
naive graduate from IIM A,who joins
this mid-market management consulting firm called Dufresne. The book follows his comic misadventures at the firm,while he tries to learn management consulting and make Senior Associate within the same year.
Einstein is an obvious caricature,a naive and blundering mallu guy who believes that
companies completely follow the rules in their manifestos. But he's
endearing,and I think some of the author's sympathies lie with the
character,despite the many jokes made at his expense.The full force of the
author's rage and sarcasm actually falls on the myriad smaller smaller characters
-the ego-centric boss,the ass kissing colleague,the supercilious colleague and on the
generally incompetent and un-ethical ways that management consulting business is run at
some companies.
There is also an amusing one-sided
romance with Gowri,a former classmate from IIM,who surprisingly doesn't screw
over 'Einstein' like I expected her to do.
This book is a marriage of sorts with Dilbert,satire and
Indian corporate office culture.I enjoyed the many jokes in this
book(especially Einstein's adventures which end up as viral videos),and
also felt the full force of Sidin' s harsh critism of his former colleagues and they
way they managed their client's interests.
Recommendation:
Intrigued enough to want to read
the sequel 'God Save the Dork' and the next.Apparently this is a trilogy!
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