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Thomas Cannon
Author
The Tao Of Apathy
Who are the employees of St Jude’s Medical Center? You already know them. You work with them. Come take a madcap meeting with them anyway and see how and why they leave common sense behind as the new hospital administrator William Petty changes everything. He adjusts associated staffing levels (fires people) and increases workloads (sometimes for the fired people). He even limits Father Chuck to added-value duties. In response, the employees begin to form bad habits and a union. However, no one handles the changes worse than Bigger, a kitchen worker with a belief that he is affected by invisibility rays. The worst thing he could ever imagine happens—his boss offers him a promotion. All he has to do is betray his coworkers and help keep people from voting for the union. He seeks out advice from his motley crew of friends: Dykes who tells every woman he sleeps with that he is lonely; Dan the audio/visual geek who organizes the union just to piss his wife off; and even Father Chuck who is so stunned that he must now bill patients for his prayers that he spends his days bitterly smoking in the designated area for oral nicotine worship, “The Butt Hutt.” The only person to give him good advice is his friend Joe who teaches him the Tao of Apathy. It’s a powerful tool, but will Bigger choose to use it?
Reviews
Amazon

From the dirty jobs somebody has to do file, a surprisingly poignant, satiric commentary on behind the scenes operations that could be many workplaces. I think I temped at some of them. Obvious names for characters coming up with a way to waste time and money in an effort to create efficiency and billable hours to pay minimum wages channels Ricky Gervais and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where the inmates are running the show and only the guy who knows how to make round meatloaf has the answers. Never quite degenerating into completely crude humor, Cannon has fun with the "new and improved" mentality to fix what was never broken in this dark, hopefully comedic, lambaste at corporate America running for-profit medicine. I will definitely think long and hard before I ever go to a hospital again on this side of the rainbow.

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