Work is bad enough, but what if things go really wrong? Hiding under your desk is not enough. Be prepared for the crises that lurk in the office, on the loading dock, in the lunchroom, and out on the sales floor. Here are step-by-step instructions to help you survive the worst that your job has to offer.

• How to Get a Job You're Not Qualified For
• How to Survive in a Cubicle
• How to Escape a Stockroom Avalanche
• How to Survive the Office Picnic
• How to Thward a Lunch Thief
• How to Survive a Nightmare Business Trip
• How to Survive a Workplace Romance
• How to Clean up a Spill In Aisle Seven

...Plus dozens of other dire employment situations.

Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht are co-authors of the bestselling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. They have appeared on 20/20, Today, National Enquirer TV, as well as in Time, USA Today, The New Yorker and People. Check out www.worstcasescenarios.com for updates, new scenarios, and more!

Jeff Woodman has been named one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by Audiofile Magazine. On stage, he created the title role in Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S.F. Bay Area Critic's Circle Award for An Ideal Husband. He lives in New York City.