Welcome to Gapfest reads. I'm David Flotz, one of the hosts of Slate's political Gap Fest.

Exit interview, The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, would be a brilliant book if it were about any workplace in America.

Christy Coulter writes hilariously and cuttingly about meetings, performance reviews, more meetings,

the big boss, corporate memos, also meetings.

And it is as vivid a portrait of modern American white-collar work as the office or severance.

But exit interview is not about any workplace. It's about Amazon, the biggest and most important company in the world.

So this very funny memoir is also the most gripping insider account of life in the company

ever written. It is filled with so much dirt and so much insight. I've spent a bunch of

my time while I was reading Exit Interview, wondering how it is that Christy has not been sued,

or how it is that she has not been disappeared into a prime truck by some Jeff Bezos Minion.

So, Christy, glad you're here. You're in an undisclosed location,

perhaps hiding from Bezos Minions. Congratulations on your great, great memoir, which is also a

great, great business book. Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. Just to give people a sense

of the voice here, can I ask you to read your wonderful chapter assimilation notes?

And one great thing about this book, readers, very short chapters.

So yes, this chapter is called Assimulation Notes, and it is set maybe a couple of months after I started working at Amazon.

There are so many men here, men from Sloan and the University of Michigan and McKenzie and

Deloitte. They are transitioning to barefoot running. They bought vibrams last month and a suede

machine. They like big, hairy, audacious goals, and in college they once saw Modest Mouse five times in a year.

They have three kids and a wife with an expired law license because it just made more sense

for her to be the stay-at-home parent. They work standing up. They've slowly come around on

Belgian ails and heard something on Tim Ferriss's podcast that

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