The Assistants
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Camille Perri
“Ocean’s Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada” (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they’ve finally had enough...Rule #1: All important men have assistants. Rule #2: Men rule the world. Still. Rule #3: There is enough money. There is so much money.Tina Fontana is a thirty-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the CEO of Titan Corp., a multinational media conglomerate. She’s excellent at her job and beloved by her famous boss—but after six years of making reservations and pouring drinks from bottles that cost more than her rent, the glamour of working for a media company in New York has completely faded, but her student loan debt has not. When a technical error with Robert’s expense report presents Tina with the opportunity to pay off the entire balance of her loans with what would essentially be pocket change for her boss, she hesitates. She’s always played by the rules, but this would be a life-changer. As Tina begins to fall down the rabbit hole of her morally questionable plan, other assistants with crushing debt and fewer scruples approach her to say that they want in. Before she knows it, she’s at the forefront of a movement that has implications far beyond what anyone anticipated...
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Author
Camille Perri
Pages
288
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2016-05-03
ISBN
0698180801 9780698180802
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"This book makes me feel like I should go out and do something with my life. It's also literally laugh out loud funny, which I find in theory to be abundant but in reality to be very rare. Cheers to that!"
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Allie Peduto
"http://bit.ly/1Uu4Wso<br/>.I think I'm in the middle of these two generations. But both of them seem to think the world owes them something. I can definitely say over the last few years, my mind is a little more open to the how the game is rigged in favor of people who have more money than they could ever need or use.<br/>But I also have open eyes to the fact that the millennial generation feels like they have been robbed if they don't have everything they want as soon as they want it - thanks, helicopter parents.<br/><br/>Tina innocently gets reimbursed for a plane ticket that she bought her boss, after it's already been refunded (because a multibillionaire doesn't think he should have to pay to fly first class - and block the seats around him). Tina struggles for weeks trying to decide what to do - be honest, and turn it back in or cash it and pay off her student loans. A simple snap and click deposit sets a whole chain of events that she could have never imagined.<br/><br/>Soon the people who are employed to stop this kind of thing from happening are blackmailing Tina to make sure it keeps happening, to their benefit. It's designed to look like a modern day Robin Hood, but is it less stealing when it goes to student loans than a new car or better apartment? Let's be honest, it's the same thing - freeing up income that would be spent on student loans to buy other things.<br/><br/>in the meantime, Tina has a budding romance with the office hunk, although she is terrified he will find out what she's up to, as he is a young idealist, who believes her to be as honest as he is.<br/><br/>I don't want to give any spoilers, but the ending was pretty neat and tidy for such a large, criminal mess on both sides."
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Marcee Feddersen
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