Lloyd: What Happened - Softcover

Bing, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375705643 ISBN 13: 9780375705649

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1999

Synopsis

A social and business satire by a columnist for Fortune magazine features a high-level corporate executive whose spirit and sanity begin to falter after he is tasked with increasing productivity by any means necessary. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanley Bing has been a mole inside corporate America since the days when greed was good. He has chronicled the life of a business animal for most of that time, first in Esquire and, for the last several years, in Fortune magazine. Bing is also the author of Crazy Bosses and Biz Words: Power Talk for Fun and Profit. This is his first novel.
From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

olumnist Stanley Bing is an anthropologist of corporate culture, a satirist of corporate greed, a comedian of the libido. In his remarkable first novel, Lloyd: What Happened, Bing gives us the last word on business in America.
        
Brazenly honest and wildly funny, Lloyd shows us one crucial year in the life of an upwardly mobile executive for whom pain and gain walk hand in hand. Lloyd is a pretty decent guy. He has an assortment of flaws. He's married, a little chunky, well into the mid-six
figures, which sounds great but means only that he has to work harder every day just to stay where he is. He can see through the corporate veil of stupidity and brutality when  he wants to, which is not very often. He loves his wife and children and, suddenly, a senior financial officer named Mona.
        
Reeling toward the millennium in the era of gross, global consolidation, the corpora

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375705643
• ISBN 13: 9780375705649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432