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The Bob Watson : a novel / Greg Bardsley.

by Bardsley, Greg.

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Harper Perennial, 2016.

Mistaken identity -- Fiction.

White collar workers -- Fiction.

9780062304797 (trade pbk.)

322 p. ; 21 cm.

"Randy Crane walks out of meetings. He's a serial meeting ditcher. A walk-out artist. An underground pioneer of worker-bee liberty. And strangely enough, no one seems to notice that he just gets up and walks out. While he'd like to consider himself an illusionist, he learned everything from studying a former colleague, the master of meeting ditches, Bob Watson. Randy continues Bob's legacy, going for more frequent and longer ditches, building on the art with every boring corporate meeting. Now, Randy wants to pull off his most important Bob Watson yet--skipping out of work to see his young nephew before the boy moves with his parents to Argentina. But things get complicated very quickly. As Randy leaves the office, he's mistaken for the company's human resources executive Dick Rayborn, a man made famous in HR circles for creating the hot new labor practice of "consourcing"--like "outsourcing" but with cons. Convinced that he is the scummy Dick Rayborn, two cons, and a granny they call Mama, force Randy into six hours of mayhem, complete with home break ins and emergency board of directors meetings. Along the way, Randy realizes he has the opportunity to pull off the most meaningful Bob Watson imaginable, and still say goodbye to his nephew" --Publisher description.

Humorous fiction.

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