By Floyd Kemske
ISBN-10: 0945774222
ISBN-13: 9780945774228
What might take place if a software program method have been built to behave as everyone's excellent supervisor? within the moment of his darkly funny novels approximately company lifestyles, Floyd Kemske has invented a software program process that learns each one employee's wishes and weaknesses after which exploits them on the way to make the worker as effective and powerful as attainable. If all you wish is a reminder every now and then, that is all you get. besides the fact that, if worry and abuse are what it takes to get you to paintings, the pc makes your existence hell. The digital Boss is the tale of 3 humans at info Accuracy, Inc.: Linda, the software program expert who created the method, yet is controlled by means of it; Arthur, whose lifestyles is a nightmare of intermittent reinforcement, and punishment; and the corporate president, Donald F. Jones, whose stories as a supervisor have been so troublesome and ludicrous, he created a firm with none human managers in any respect.
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He had borne life with infinite patience. No, that was wrong. Patience was not the right word. He had tolerated, even cooperated in, the tests, the treatments, and the procedures, but he had always given the distinct impression they were being performed on someone else. Whatever they had done to him, “interviews” with doctors and psychologists, drugs, assessments, confinement, he had accepted without complaint. Nobody had ever been able to give Connie and him a diagnosis of Harold’s condition, so Jones had had to come to his own understanding of it.
Linda didn’t turn back. As she turned the corner into the hotel lobby, she heard the elevator door rumble shut. She walked briskly through the lobby to the newsstand. She wondered what the Bastard was doing in the hotel. Maybe a meeting of some kind. Or maybe he had a new chippy he was seeing. She stopped and stared at the camouflage carpeting under foot. She had never really noticed it before, and now she marveled at the tastelessness of it. A rich, black moldy feeling blossomed in Linda’s chest, an isolated feeling that went beyond mere loneliness to abandonment and betrayal.
51 She took the car out of gear and shut it down. The shoulder harnesses unlatched and snaked themselves back into their holders. Freed from the seat’s embrace, Linda leaned against the steering wheel, sighing. Nobody tracked her hours, but she was still anxious about being late. She sat back against the seat and closed her eyes for a moment. It was going to be one of those days, to say the least. She hadn’t wanted to take much time for grooming, and now she was afraid she might look awful. She twisted the rearview mirror toward herself and examined her lack of makeup by the ambient light of the garage.