Anti-Social
The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
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Nick Pettigrew
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Nick Pettigrew
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Perfect for fans of The Secret Barrister and Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt.
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Has your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a fondness for crack cocaine, the company of strangers and dance music? Or maybe you're a social worker, mental health nurse, police officer, firefighter, dog warden or vicar and you've been landed with someone who's a pain in the arse. Who are you going to call? That would be me: an anti-social behaviour officer.
Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other's throats. That's hard enough at the best of times but when government cuts mean that hospitals, social services and police are all at breaking point, the possibility of complete chaos is never far away.
This is an urgent, timely but, most of all, hysterically funny true story of a life spent working with the people society wants to forget and the problems that nobody else can resolve. This book will make you laugh, cry and boil with rage within a single sentence.
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©2020 Nick Pettigrew (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
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- Adehl C.
- 17-08-2023
Highly Recommended for Executives and Boards
Whilst entertaining it gives an honest account of what many employees in social housing go through on a daily. It requires true strength and can break a human. Not enough credit is given to those employees for their services.
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- Colzz
- 29-07-2020
Interesting, funny, sad
If you liked a book called “Diary of a Junior Doctor” then you’ll like this.
Nick Pettigrew talks through his time as an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer in England. You’re taken through various days in Nick’s life during his time in that job which includes both highs and lows. You get a vivid picture of life for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society as well as insight into the horrible nightmare public housing tenants you hope you’ll never live next to. Along the way you’ll be given an education on the various community services and legal procedures that those people may end up dealing with and how ASB officers navigate terrain of a world most of us only hear about on the news.
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- Alex
- 30-12-2022
I wish this book didn’t exist
It’s a genuine tragedy that this book exists. Yes, it’s funny, engaging, really interesting, but above all, it is tragically heartbreaking. We all suspect that this underground of the forgotten, downtrodden, marginalised, sneered at and demonised exists, but to have it laid out for is such uncomfortable detail says far more about us as a society than it does about them.
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