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//-->The Success MachineSlesar, HenryPublished:1960Type(s):Short Fiction, Science FictionSource:1About Slesar:Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 - April 2, 2002) was an American author,playwright and copywriter. He was also known as O. H. Leslie and JayStreet.Around 1955, he started to write short stories. While working as acopywriter, he published hundreds of short stories, including detectivefiction, science fiction, criminal stories, mysteries and thrillers on Play-boy, Imaginative Tales and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. AlfredHitchcock hired him to write a number of the scenarios for Alfred Hitch-cock Presents.From 1957 to 1962, he wrote the Ruby Martinson series, and laterworked on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone series. The Gray Flannel Shroud(1958), his first novel, was awarded Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1960. Hepenned the screenplay for the 1965 film Two on a Guillotine, which wasbased on one of his stories. His short story "Examination Day" was usedin the New Twilight Zone series .In 1974, he won an Emmy as the head writer of a TV series The Edgeof Night (1956-1984). His term as head writer was considered lengthy interms of head writers. During that time, he was also a head writer for theProcter and Gamble soap operas Somerset and Search for Tomorrow.During the 1974-75 television, he was the creator and head writer for Ex-ecutive Suite, a CBS primetime serial.In 1983, Procter and Gamble wanted to replace him as the head writerof The Edge of Night but the ABC network wanted to keep him. After hisreplacement as headwriter by Lee Sheldon, the network named him(with Sam Hall) as the new co-head writer of its soap opera One Life toLive. He left that show after one year, and was later the head writer ofthe CBS afternoon serial Capitol.In 1977, he was awarded the Edgar Award again.Source: WikipediaAlso available on Feedbooks for Slesar:•The Delegate from Venus(1958)•My Father, the Cat(1957)•Reluctant Genius(1957)Copyright:Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/orcheck the copyright status in your country.2Note:This book is brought to you by Feedbooks.Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.3Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had tohave one. But the blamed thing almost put them out of business. Why? It had notact. It insisted upon telling the truth!The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burpeda card into the slot. Colihan picked it up and closed his eyes in prayer."Oh, Lord. Let this one be all right!"He read the card. It was pink."Subject#34580. Apt. Rat. 34577. Psych. Clas. 45. Last Per. Vac."An.3/5/98. Rat. 19. Cur. Rat. 14."Analysis:Subject demonstrates decreased mechanical coordination. Decreasein work-energy per man-hour. Marked increase in waste-motion due to subject'sinterest in non-essential activities such as horseracing. Indication of hostility to-wards superiors."Recommendation:Fire him."Colihan's legs went weak. He sat down and placed the card in front ofhim. Then, making sure he was unobserved, he broke a company ruleand began to Think.Something's wrong,he thought.Something is terribly wrong. Twenty-fourpink cards in the last month. Twenty-four out of forty. That's a batting averageof—Hetried to figure it out with a pencil, but gave it up as a bad job.Maybe I'll run it through the Averagovac,he thought.But why bother? It'sobvious that it's high. There's obviously SOMETHING WRONG.The inter-com beeped."Ten o'clock department head meeting, Mr. Colihan.""All right, Miss Blanche."He rose from his chair and took the pink card with him. He stood be-fore the Action Chute for a moment, tapping the card against his teeth.Then, his back stiffened with a sense of duty, and he slipped the cardinside.The meeting had already begun when Colihan took his appointedplace. Grimswitch, the Materielovac operator looked at him quizzically.Damn your eyes, Grimswitch,he thought.It's no crime to be three minuteslate. Nothing but a lot of pep talk first five minutes anyway.4"PEP!" said President Moss at the end of the room. He slammed hislittle white fist into the palm of his other hand. "It's only a little word. Itonly has three little letters. P-E-P. Pep!"Moss, standing at the head of the impressive conference table, leanedforward and eyed them fixedly. "But those three little letters, my friends,spell out a much bigger word. Amuchbigger word for General Products,Incorporated. They spell PROFIT! And if you don't know howprofitisspelled, it's M-O-N-N-E-Y!"There was an appreciative laugh from the assembled departmentheads. Colihan, however, was still brooding on the parade of pink cardswhich had been emerging with frightening regularity from his think-ma-chine, and he failed to get the point."Naughty, naughty," Grimswitch whispered to him archly. "Boss madea funny. Don't forget to laugh, old boy."Colihan threw him a sub-zero look."Now let's be serious," said the boss. "Because thingsareserious.Mighty serious. Somewhere, somehow,somebody'sletting us down!"The department heads looked uneasily at each other. Only Grimswitchcontinued to smile vacantly at the little old man up front, drumming hisfingers on the glass table top. When the President's machine-gunningglance caught his eyes, Colihan went white.Does he know about it?hethought."I'm not making accusations," said Moss. "But there is a let-downsomeplace. Douglas!" he snapped.Douglas, the Treasurer, did a jack-in-the-box."Read the statement," said the President."First quarter fiscal year," said Douglas dryly. "Investment capital,$17,836,975,238.96.Assets,$84,967,442,279.55.Liabilities,$83,964,283,774.60. Production costs are—"Moss waved his hand impatiently. "The meat, the meat," he said.Douglas adjusted his glasses. "Total net revenue, $26,876,924.99.""COMPARISON!" The President screamed. "Let's have last firstquarter, you idiot!""Ahem!" Douglas rattled the paper in annoyance. "Last first quarterfiscal year net revenue $34,955,376.81. Percent decrease—"5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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