Personal Days

Ed Park's short novel Personal Days is set in an unnamed Manhattan office (a company with “a set of five initials, two of which don’t actually stand for anything”) and involves a group of young office workers as they navigate the petty frustrations and jealousies of their work environment. It's an extreme parody of a corporate office — virtually no actual work gets done — and the book ends just as some of the more promising plot threads are emerging. But Park's characters have some good lines of corporate-speak ("Afterward he said, 'Keep me in the loop and let's touch base next week'").