Defekt

Derek works at LitenVärld, a big-box furniture store, and the job is his whole life. He sleeps in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot, and he works for 18 hours at a stretch before he clocks out. Then he takes his first sick day, and his manager starts to doubt him.

In the manager's view, an employee built for LitenVärld has no need for time off. To test Derek's commitment, the manager assigns him a special inventory shift: search the store for defective products. These include toy chests with pincers and eye stalks, sleeper sofas that walk, and mutant toilets that kill.

Four other workers join the inventory team, and all four look and sound almost exactly like Derek. The work is dangerous, and the question of what Derek is, and what the store wants from him, hangs over the shift.

The book is a workplace horror comedy set almost entirely inside one retail store. The tone is darkly funny and absurd, with corporate loyalty as the target and monstrous merchandise as the threat.