In the beginning, there were amoebas, the author explains in a section on human evolution. Then Total Quality Management. Later he concedes that executives have evolved to the point where they perform their tasks with ease. Mr. Adams, who worked for nine years in cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell, also reveals a satisfying contempt for trust-building exercises, vision statements and all the other malarkey forced on corporate troops. Money is our most valuable asset.
Employees are ninth.
He made it up. He knows you won't ask what it means. I bring this up to confess that I loved these two chapters and read them as excellent fiction rather than excellent satire. I wanted more. Otherwise, the book is formulaic Dave Barry, by which I mean hysterically funny.