In a five-day span Jack Fallon learns that his wife of 24 years is dumping him and that the company he's worked for all his life is doing the same. Along with other coworkers in the 50/50 class 50... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is an enjoyable read with an interesting plot. The protaganist, Jack, and his co-workers get wind of a corporate plan to cut costs by "downsizing" all the people age 50+. They secretly organize to try to derail the plan. At the same time, Jack's wife leaves him for another man, and does some very brutal and downright mean things regarding the shared property. That's the beginning. The rest of the story is a page-turner . . . I couldn't wait to see what happened next. The ending regarding the corporate plan was a little far-fetched, but satisfying anyway. I would have liked to see Jack's ex-wife get her just rewards because I thought she got off a little easy. But all in all, this was a really pleasant and fun read, and a unique one, too.
Corporate intrigue and plotting too real for fiction
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
There is no easy way to resize a company and many execs take the easy way by combining the need with greed. The affected are helpless unless they reach into their guts to find determination, courage, craftyness and imagination. When Jack Fallon's life falls apart at both ends of his commute, he finds the craftyness and courage to confront his probelms with work and wife. Anyone ever confronted with either can relate to what happens as Fallon leads his co-workers and himself out of desperation but it ain't easy to fight executive and wifely greed at the same time. I've worked for thirteen companies at the executive level, in marketing and with legal staff and I can't believe Heffernan hasn't also - that's how real his stuff is as he touches all the bases of divorce, its impact on the kids, a new love, being over fifty in the workplace, shallow management, aging parents, product defects and insider manipulation. Can Fallon cope with all this? I read The Dinosaur Club in one saession to find out...and so will you.
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