Robert H. Rimmer

The Byrdwhistle Option: to Play Instead of Work Robert H. Rimmer

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! for a dizzy ridenot into the future, but the here and now! Byrdwhistle is a highly profitable mail order company where only married couples are employedwith varying hours that makes it possible for one, or the other, to be home when the kids come home from school. Byrdwhistles do not workthey play together and with other spouse's permission can relax in company sponsored "love rooms." You'll love Heyman Hyman Youman, the 62 year old maverick who created this utopia where jobs are rotated regularlyand no matter what job you dohusbands and wives, together, earn the median family income plus a spectacular share in the profit bonuses. All the new married employees have to do is pass an entrance exambased on Abraham Maslow's Theory Z management philosophy and become a transcender. But all hell breaks loose when Ralph Theimost, CEO of WIN Incorporated, a billion dollar conglomerate, and Ronald Coldaxe, his Director of Acquisitions, are determined to take over stock control of Byrdwhistle from the majority stock holder, Thornton Byrd now in his 70'swho sleeps with Youman's wife, occasionally. Even Coldaxe's wife, M'mmbecomes a pawn in the battle of wits as they try to make Byrdwhistle conform to old style economic reality.