The Red Brick Times

Our story thus far:
A Midwestern, self-absorbed, wigged-out nerdling finds himself ensconced deep in the bowels of Corporate America. He continues along, acting his part, wondering when the evil overlords will penetrate his disguise and discover the changeling in their midst. In the fullness of time, the millinary-indigestible complex suffers economic setbacks, and dread foreign incursions are detected. Writhing and thrashing, Corporate America responds in heroic fashion - it ejects hordes of low-level functional employees in a Holy Crusade to excrete cash. The top leadership ranks swell to generate the required spate of morale-enhancing Powerpoint presentations. Dire predictions of dark doom underly the uplifting messages of salvation.

Meanwhile, our nerdling experiences a change of direct management, the near-elimination of his position, the doubling of workload (as a reward for keeping his position) and an increasing tide of micro-management from above. Coincident with that, our protagonist, reporting on a customer concern, sends an FYI communication that finds its way to high levels. Misinterpreting the communique, a Director causes himself some embarrasment by over-reacting. Suddenly, our nerdling is pinned in the glare of censurious backlash, anonymous no more. Naturally, somebody has to be at fault, and who better than one at the bottom rank? Since this is a Holy Crusade, Papal Infallibility must be invoked.

So, our anti-hero falls again under the shadow of the reorganization axe. There seems to be no room at the inn. The future recedes into the mist of probabilities as randomness increases. It is true, our nerdling realizes: The social agenda of Corporate America is revealed. Entropy will be served. "IT'S A COOK BOOK! IT'S A COOK BOOK!"
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