Grumpy Old Workers

''I owe, I owe, so off to work we go.'' A Grumpy perspective on the daily grind.

Whether we are celebrity chef or hapless waiter, engineer or oily rag, commissioning editor or TV producer, all of us have a whole daily wagon-load of s**t to deal with in the name of work. From boardroom to boredom, from ''what''s the point?'' to Powerpoint, from 9 to 5 to P45. And that''s what this new book from uber-grump Stuart Prebble is all about; the utter everyday relentless crapulence of working for ''the man'', or indeed ''the woman''. The workplace is a piece of cake for someone of his curmudgeonly quality.

It''s not possible in a book of this size to include ALL the grumps arising from the working day - the office politics, the shortcomings of IT, the interminable meetings and some of your colleagues'' weirder habits, but he is giving it a go. Grumpy? I''ll say we are ...