Downsizing

By Linda Ann Rentschler
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Published: June 30, 2011
Words: 90,899 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465907189

Short description

When a corporation's downsizing results in a suicide, executive Bill Collins begins retaliating against the firm’s most hated employees. His goal is to restore the corporation to health, but first he must determine who else is trying to murder the employees he is targeting, and whether or not the hacker who stole his financial model is able to break the code and sell the program to a rival.

Extended description

Bill Collins, once a low-profile but brilliant mathematician has been promoted out of his comfort zone to an EVP where he is surrounded by bureaucrats. He and his loyal staff manager, Joan Bradley, operate out of a Manhattan high-rise while their staff remains in NJ, overworked, dissatisfied, and petrified of losing their jobs. But when a beloved employee kills himself after losing his job, Bill devises a more efficient way of downsizing.

Max Haverstadt, Bill’s colleague who has remained in the tech department at the AVP level due to mood swings and political incorrectness, takes an interest in Joan Bradley who has kept her single motherhood status secret from the corporation. But playing second to Bill always makes him jealous, and he’s soon acting crazy enough to get himself thrown out of her apartment.

Bill’s first victim is someone who has arranged the theft of Bill and Max’s financial model from the corporation’s disaster recovery site in Arizona. But the thieves.. (Read more) Bill Collins, once a low-profile but brilliant mathematician has been promoted out of his comfort zone to an EVP where he is surrounded by bureaucrats. He and his loyal staff manager, Joan Bradley, operate out of a Manhattan high-rise while their staff remains in NJ, overworked, dissatisfied, and petrified of losing their jobs. But when a beloved employee kills himself after losing his job, Bill devises a more efficient way of downsizing.

Max Haverstadt, Bill’s colleague who has remained in the tech department at the AVP level due to mood swings and political incorrectness, takes an interest in Joan Bradley who has kept her single motherhood status secret from the corporation. But playing second to Bill always makes him jealous, and he’s soon acting crazy enough to get himself thrown out of her apartment.

Bill’s first victim is someone who has arranged the theft of Bill and Max’s financial model from the corporation’s disaster recovery site in Arizona. But the thieves have run into some technical difficulties, and since they arranged the sale to a branch of the mob, they are under even more pressure to succeed.

While Bill’s plan appears to be working as far as restoring corporate morale, there is one other plan put into motion by Bill’s wife that could undermine all he has achieved.
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Tags

murder, humor, business, hero, corporate greed, computer crime, mathematician

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