If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis Book

(2.5/5)

While I don't think very many readers would argue that Lewis' shorts were better than his string of popular master-satires in the 1920s, he does use his knack for realism to poke fun at the activities and mannerisms of office culture in a way that still holds up a hundred years later. No amount of technological advancements in the form of excel spreadsheets, conference calls, or slack pages can change the fact that white collar work seems to have consisted of the same middle management struggles, the same false smiles on the faces of polite sales folks just trying to earn enough to pay their mortgages, and the same searching for self worth amidst the proverbial moving of units.