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Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare

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When I see drivers yacking on their cellphones in the evening rush hour, I know it's the pent up lunacy they sold their souls in exchange for corporate salaries with. Kemske must have temped in the corporate world to know it so well; he couldn't have had permanent employment in it and retain THIS kind of voice, full of Palahniukian savagery and Swiftian rage. It's riotous good fun and you'll recognize in it the "real" people who cut you off in traffic with their shiny new Jeep Libertys or Chevy Blazers. That is, unless you have the misfortune to know them more intimately.

Although Floyd Kemske jokes about being an obscure novelist, it is truly a shame that his pioneering books about downsizing, corporate cold-bloodedness and wacky HR policies are not more widely known. "Human Resources" possesses enough wit to entertain and challenge as it draws the reader into the ultimate in predatory workplaces. Lovers of Dilbert and corporate skeptics will enjoy the acid penned approach and even some HR types will smile at his depiction of an anti-personnel department. Kemske is somewhat of an acquired taste, but he is well worth your time.

Kemske writes with a dark humor that skilled in satire. And he lampoons the corporate world with just enough violence to make it interesting. You'll never want to go back to the office again! A great read.

I found the characters in this novel to be rather flat. They seemed not to care about anything or anyone around them, and didn't inpsire me to care about them either. It came to a half-hearted flat conclusion as well, with no reprucussions for anyone.