Combustible Networks: Year 1
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This incomplete work covers one of the once planned fifteen years in Jenny Eden's life. She just joined the Harvey Corporation, a network infrastructure/data center company. This is contrasted with her CEO's life. Their journal entries are funny, honest, and memorable as they take on their business/technical challenges and discuss their oddball colleagues. The author's annotations are also included.
Hallett German
Hallett German is a fiction and technical subject author on various aspects of IT. His works of fiction cross multiple genres including children, young adult, dysfunctional corporate mysteries/fantasies, historical fiction, and steampunk. His books offer a unique and original ride into other worlds and lives.
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Combustible Networks - Hallett German
Combustible Networks - Year1
An Incompleat Work
1st Edition
Smashword Edition
Hallett German
15b2b May 19th 2013
Copyright 2013 Hallett German
Written by Hallett German
Illustrated by Alessandra R. German
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Table of Contents
Chapter 0 – Prologue
Chapter 1 – Corporate Disobedience
Chapter 2 – I was Young Once, Just Once.
Chapter 3 – It is Coming All Together
Chapter 4 – I Met the Big Guy, So What?
Chapter 5 –One Action Can Undo Everything
Chapter 6 – It’s Going to Hell and I Want Off This Ride.
Chapter 7 – Welcome to the Epicenter
Chapter 8 – Longing and Loneliness
Chapter 9 – Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
Chapter 10 –Boss, Is it a Full Moon Tonight?
Chapter 11 – Happy Layoffs and Holidays!
Chapter 20 – It’s All for Moments Of Light
Chapter 21 – Harvey Genealogy
Image Credit
Christopher Macsurak
Preface
Silently, this story has sat on the shelf since April 2002. Once completed, it would have covered the fifteen-year career of one IT staffer. It was an ambitious undertaking. Somewhere along the way, I halted further progress to focus on other activities. However, now seems an appropriate time to make this unique incomplete work publically accessible. Much of the original wording was kept. Comments are provided throughout the book on the author’s intent and planned direction.
Hoping that you enjoy this offering.
H.G.
[This book went through three different beginnings. The first approach was leaving/finding the journal in the time capsule. The second approach is the Prologue below. The third approach is covered in Chapter 1 – the Corporate Disobedience
Chapter about Year 5. This probably would have been in the final version. Whether the same characters below would show up in the epilogue was never decided.]
Chapter 0 – Prologue
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Minutes from the Society for the Preservation of Corporate Life
Attending:
Charles T. Parker
Luisa Jackson
Johnny Van
Yorsa Kaufmann
Topics:
Declining attendance at our meeting.
Recent finds.
Discussion:
Attendance has been slowly going down. We started the year with fifteen members and are now down to our core four. Society members, what are we doing wrong? We surveyed past members and the main theme was that there was no interest in preserving past corporate artifacts.
Luisa Jackson was the highlight of the meeting with her dramatic reading of selections from two journals from the Harvey Corporation. Research showed that the Harvey Corporation is still in operation. Prudence Harvey III (Johnny and Tilly Harvey’s daughter) is ably running the company. She is reportedly working on a mega-merger with Mountainside Consulting. The merger will result in the largest inter-planetary computer consulting company ever.
Next Meeting: CEO Bonuses: A Fifty Year Study.
[Chapters 1-11 was part of Section 1. It had the following section title "Year 1: Three Managers in One Year, My First Year. Each chapter was to contrast a day in the life of an IT worker and their CEO. If writing this today, I might have made this character a CIO instead of a CEO. Both tales take place sometime in the future.]
Chapter 1 – Corporate Disobedience
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Year 15 Month 9 Day 22
From Corporate Disobedience Chapter 51:
Corporate Headquarters Room 302
It was the first time ever that I stood in silent protest during a staff meeting. Typically, I would not resort to such extremes in public. However, I have had enough. Our company, the Harvey Corporation, was a few steps away from financial disaster. Up to that moment, my co-workers could do was get into ferocious arguments about which electronic messaging system should be used. The ironic part that was both were proprietary electronic messaging systems and already well out of date. It was a decision that would make little difference even if the company were financially stable.
It did not matter what happened to me after my unexpected behavior. For a brief shining moment, I