Corporate Days

A middle-aged, mid-level executive in the middle of a mid-life crisis ... Sid Vickers is in his late-forties; a white-collar worker who struggles with Sydney traffic, passenger congestion on his weekly bus commute, the political undercurrents inside a modern corporation, the responsibility of providing for a wife and two young kids at home, and his work-life imbalance generally. As the female CEO at the American insurance company he works for, increasingly makes his (and every other employee's) life a misery in these tougher economic times, sardonic Sid conspires to finally take some action rather than wiling away his days feeling sorry for himself. With a Roald Dahl "Tales of the Unexpected" twist, this book diarises the one hundred and fifty days it takes for Sid to change his situation ...