The Horrible Condition of Bikini Bottom's Employees (The Life of SpongeBob SquarePants)

The Horrible Condition of Bikini Bottom's Employees is a book authored by Sandy Cheeks and printed and distributed by Sheldon J. Plankton in the season 1 episode "Sandy Goes a-Writin'". In this book, Sandy writes about what she sees as the deplorable working time and condition of the Bikini Bottomites; the standard weekly working hour limit of 54 hours is often ignored and overtime payments are unavailable. 10,000 paperback copies were printed for the initial run and distributed by Plankton to the Bikini Bottom Central Department Store, where they sold fast.

The initial run was marred by the unauthorized addition of a preface by Plankton, in which he criticizes the Krusty Krab restaurant, owned by his archnemesis Eugene H. Krabs, for its "oppressiveness in treating the workers" and promotes his own restaurant Chum Bucket as "more humane"; this successfully attracted customers to the Chum Bucket. SpongeBob and Sandy confronted Plankton over this and told customers not to focus on the "Chum Bucket propaganda" and more on the book's message: "helping our fellow BIkini Bottomites". Furthermore, SpongeBob declared that the Krabby Patties were still better than any of Plankton's dishes. This led the customers to return to the Krusty Krab.