Jeffrey Reiner is a middle manager's dream. Predictable, almost invisible, and lacking ambition, he's held the same tedious job for eighteen years, typing up the calendar listings for a South Florida weekly. As the economy and the newspaper industry crashed around him, Jeffrey kept his head com
Nothing happens until it happens to you: a novel
β Scribed by Shine, T. M.
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype; Crown Publishers
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, Florida, Florida.
- ISBN
- 0307589854
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Jeffrey Reiner is a middle manager's dream.
Predictable, almost invisible, and lacking ambition, he's held the same tedious job for eighteen years, typing up the calendar listings for a South Florida weekly. As the economy and the newspaper industry crashed around him, Jeffrey kept his head comfortably in the sand until he was terminated in the middle of his lunch hour. Suddenly Jeffrey is staring at a deadline of twenty-one weeks before his severance pay and unemployment benefits dry up and he has to figure out what to do next.
Plunged into the bizarre world of unemployment, Jeffrey's attempts at networking lead him to his slacker neighbors, an unorthodox state facilitator, and a 1-800 mental health counselor. What's even worse is now that he has no job to fill the daytime hours, he can't ignore the fact that his family life is unraveling: his wife communicates almost solely through detailed daily honey-do lists; his mother seems determined to get herself kicked...
β¦ Subjects
Florida
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