Jim Fosse Expense Claim edition by John Dolan Literature Fiction eBooks
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Once you've met Jim Fosse you'll never feel quite the same about opening your e-mails ...
A darkly humorous short story of obsession from John Dolan, author of 'Everyone Burns'.
WARNING Contains sexual references and some really terrible grammar.
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Jim Fosse Expense Claim edition by John Dolan Literature Fiction eBooks
Corporate red tape and bureaucracy are always fertile subjects for fiction writers, and John Dolan cleverly exploits the corporate mindset in "Jim Fosse's Expense Claim," a darkly comic tale of how one most unusual employee's method of doing business clashes with a very typical corporate culture.The story is written in the form of a series of e-mails, most of them between the eponymous Jim Fosse, an employee of a fictional power company, and Ramon Ortiz, the pencil pusher in HR responsible for approving travel expenses. Fosse is the company's business development manager, who has just returned from a trip to southeast Asia, where he was successful in landing some new agreements. However, as Ortiz presses Fosse for receipts and other documentation of his expenses, Fosse becomes increasingly hostile. And, when Ortiz learns that Fosse’s methods of landing the contracts involve some, ahem, unusual methods of persuasion for the local officials, he can’t quite square those methods with the corporate manual.
There’s not a lot of plot to “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim,” but the story does have a clever twist at the end (one that is, however, considerably diminished by a glaring factual error by the author that was not caught in editing). The story is enjoyable because the author has managed to perfectly tap into the corporate mindset, creating a series of e-mails in which corporate flaks try, with increasingly diminished levels of success, to cope with an employee who gleefully sees nothing wrong with some highly unethical practices. Along the way, the story manages to elicit quite a few chuckles, especially from those who have ever struggled with jumping through corporate hoops themselves.
Although the story takes place at the turn of the century and was written in 2012, those who read it for the first time in 2018, in the post-Harvey Weinstein corporate era, will do so from a somewhat different perspective. Actually, this altered perspective makes the story even more fascinating. To say much more would give away some of the best plot developments, but let’s just say that Jim Fosse’s antics would be even less welcome and more darkly entertaining today.
Apparently, Jim Fosse is a character in some of Dolan’s longer, more serious works, but “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim” is completely self-contained, and currently, completely free on Amazon. It’s quite a short work, and an even shorter read because the author inserts the to and from lines on each e-mail, resulting in headings that are often longer than the single-sentence e-mails themselves. But it’s a fun read that almost everyone in the corporate world can easily relate to. “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim” should definitely be approved by readers.
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Jim Fosse Expense Claim edition by John Dolan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I love how this story consists of emails that are hilarious. Poor guy just wanted to get reimbursed. It's not his fault that prostitutes don't give customers any receipts. Ha! The end is fabulous. 'Red Tape'...so funny.
Rebecca Scarberry (@Scarberryfields on Twitter)
Goodness, this collection of memo's was hilarious! I've been so busy with life over the past decade or so that I haven't had time to do any reading for pleasure.
Mr. Dolan's humorous exchange between an HR rep and an unorthodox new hire is reminiscent of nearly every corporate setting I've experienced. It reminds me a bit of the dialogue between Michael and Toby from "The Office."
Jim Fosse's Expense Claim is one of those short stories (and it is a very quick read) that puts a smile on your face. It's a quirky, satirical take on corporate life that is brought to life via the rather mundane office process of getting reimbursed for one's expenses.
Mr. Dolan, author of the terrific Everyone Burns, has done it again.
The best half hour I've spent all week.
Very witty. Very short but a continuous giggle from beginning to end.
big fan of J. Dolan too. not his best work but what you'd expect from him.
What a fun little read! Are you sick to death of political correctness? Are you dying to see some snotty little corporate fool backpedal? Do you like stories about expense claims? This little gem chronicles a hell of an e-mail chain between a set of corporate nonentities and a free-thinker whose ideas are a little left of center. Take a chance, and you'll be rewarded by a big grin.
This short story in the form of an email duel between Jim Fosse, pressing his dubious expense claims and a company expense claims clerk wielding a red tape rule book, is delightful, hilarious and brimming with dark humor.
If you’re a Time Blood and Karma fan you’ll have met Jim in the Poison Tree, Book III in the series, and you’ll be aware what a complete rogue John Dolan has created; when you shake hands with Fosse make sure you count your fingers. A great little yarn to be read, enjoyed and then read again. A keeper for sure. Highly recommended.
Corporate red tape and bureaucracy are always fertile subjects for fiction writers, and John Dolan cleverly exploits the corporate mindset in "Jim Fosse's Expense Claim," a darkly comic tale of how one most unusual employee's method of doing business clashes with a very typical corporate culture.
The story is written in the form of a series of e-mails, most of them between the eponymous Jim Fosse, an employee of a fictional power company, and Ramon Ortiz, the pencil pusher in HR responsible for approving travel expenses. Fosse is the company's business development manager, who has just returned from a trip to southeast Asia, where he was successful in landing some new agreements. However, as Ortiz presses Fosse for receipts and other documentation of his expenses, Fosse becomes increasingly hostile. And, when Ortiz learns that Fosse’s methods of landing the contracts involve some, ahem, unusual methods of persuasion for the local officials, he can’t quite square those methods with the corporate manual.
There’s not a lot of plot to “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim,” but the story does have a clever twist at the end (one that is, however, considerably diminished by a glaring factual error by the author that was not caught in editing). The story is enjoyable because the author has managed to perfectly tap into the corporate mindset, creating a series of e-mails in which corporate flaks try, with increasingly diminished levels of success, to cope with an employee who gleefully sees nothing wrong with some highly unethical practices. Along the way, the story manages to elicit quite a few chuckles, especially from those who have ever struggled with jumping through corporate hoops themselves.
Although the story takes place at the turn of the century and was written in 2012, those who read it for the first time in 2018, in the post-Harvey Weinstein corporate era, will do so from a somewhat different perspective. Actually, this altered perspective makes the story even more fascinating. To say much more would give away some of the best plot developments, but let’s just say that Jim Fosse’s antics would be even less welcome and more darkly entertaining today.
Apparently, Jim Fosse is a character in some of Dolan’s longer, more serious works, but “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim” is completely self-contained, and currently, completely free on . It’s quite a short work, and an even shorter read because the author inserts the to and from lines on each e-mail, resulting in headings that are often longer than the single-sentence e-mails themselves. But it’s a fun read that almost everyone in the corporate world can easily relate to. “Jim Fosse’s Expense Claim” should definitely be approved by readers.
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