Last Update: Friday, July 03, 1998
The dates are in this format: MM/DD/YY
10/01/97 - Our fictional character, Mark joins the Nescorp workforce. He soon discovers that he's gotten more than what he bargained for.
10/17/97 - Mark recieves an anonymous e-mail which is impossible to trace. The message consists of a warning to quit his job and get away while he still can.
11/21/97 - A product manager quits his job, seeking new opportunities. This is the first resignation. Others sure to follow.
12/03/97 - A very tough meeting takes place in which the Research & Development department's manager insults the Purchasing manager. The human resources manager intervenes and he threatens to send a written memo to denounce the situation.
12/04/97 - The youngest product manager quits his job. Will recieve a 45% salary increase on her new job.
12/05/97 - The most iimportant product manager of the company quits his job. He leaves the company within 24 hours, and therefore is unable to train a replacement.
12/06/97 - The Christmas party- A tense but friendly atmosphere prevails during the gala celebration. Most unusual story: One employee had been drinking a mix of orange juice, cranberry juice and Bacardi Limon. Long into the night, after several drinks and not getting high, he found out that the waiter had been mistakenly serving him only juice and no liquor.
12/07/97 - One of our programmers has been requested to extend his visit to Santo Poco. His boss' boss had not authorized the extension but the high command changed his mind very quickly.
12/09/97 - Management takes out his anger on the programmer when he gats back.
12/10/97 - A newspaper reports Nescorp's purchase of a smaller company. Nescorp's general manager calls news "a fantasy". Fears of a hostile takeover loom. Management not willing to discuss the takeover with employees.
12/15/97 - Mark is called to the general manager's office to check a computer which had a software error. When he arrives at the office, he goes to work on the P.C. and opens a Word document as a test. The g..m. gets initially scared, then angry and violently hits the monintor so it ends up with the display away from theMark. The g.m.'s attitude has shown Mark that he is hiding something. Must be something big, as a company of this type does not get involved with classified information. Or does it?
12/20/97 - The g.m. calls Mark again to his office. As he needs his help. He has received a mystrious C.D. which contains important files of some sort. He tells Mark that he cannot access the data on the C.D., and orders Mark to "solve" his problem. Our hero quickly realizes that the g.m.'s P.C does not have a CD-ROM drive and that the g.m. is trying to fit a CD into a groove in front of his P.C.
12/27/97 - A CD-ROM equipped PC is taken to Mr. Coffee's office. (He is the Company's Financial Vice President.) The general manager has assigned him the task of extracting the documents on the mysterious CD and analyzing them for some purpose. Hardly does he know, of course, that Mr. Coffee does not know a thing about CD's or computers, even though he is the official head of the Management Information Systems Department. After a couple of days of asking for help to his international contacts, he gives up.
01/12/98 - The hostile takeover begins. According to the CD's documents, along with the Financial Vice President's analysis, the company should not commit to this, but nevertheless, the central office gives the order and the purchase of the smaller company comes through.
02/15/98 - Even though everybody knows about the purchase, it is on this date that the company finally acknowledges the deal. An employee is fired soon after making the remark: "Wasn't it a fantasy?" to the general manager.
03/02/98 - The Financial Vice President argues with his assistant after giving orders to change a document in a spreadsheet. The document compares sales vs. budget by displaying a percentage, and he could not understand why the percentage changes if the budget quantity is changed.
More to come....
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