Who are the employees of St Jude’s Medical Center? You already know who they are. You work with them. Come take a madcap meeting with them anyway and see how and why they leave common sense behind as the new hospital administrator William Petty changes everything. He adjusts associated staffing levels (fires people) and increases workloads (sometimes for the fired people). He even limits Father Chuck to added-value duties. In response, the employees begin to form bad habits and a union. However, no one handles the changes worse than Bigger, a kitchen worker with a belief that he is affected by invisibility rays. The worst thing he could ever imagine happens—his boss offers him a promotion. All he has to do is betray his coworkers and help keep people from voting for the union..He seeks out advice from his motley crew of friends: Dykes who tells every woman he sleeps with that he is lonely; Dan the audio/visual geek who organizes the union just to piss his wife off; and even Father Chuck who is so stunned that he must now bill patients for his prayers that he spends his days bitterly smoking in the designated area for oral nicotine worship, “The Butt Hutt.” The only person to give him good advice is his friend Joe who teaches him the Tao of Apathy. It’s a powerful tool, but will Bigger choose to use it? Patrick McCorkle - This is humor with a punch. You will be torn between laughing at the ridiculousness of the hospital on one page, to find yourself fuming. I was so engrossed I read it in two sittings- and I was quite busy, to boot! As I write this on May Day, do yourself and some workers a favor by buying this book. You'll laugh, become more empathetic and maybe, just maybe, discover the elusive "Tao of Apathy", the cure to the endless cycle of workplace hell. I wrote this book many years ago and it stems from the many menial jobs I held while going to college and avoiding going to college. While working in a hospital, I observed the class warfare between the medical people and the support people.  Several of the incidents are taken directly from my experience. However, most of what happens come from the development of these characters and how they would react. I have heard from other people how the events of forming a union in the book have mirrored actual experiences. While I take the position of "everyone is wrong" when it comes to the workplace, I do believe we need more unions (except for those times we don't). Who are the employees of St Jude's Medical Center? You already know who they are. You work with them. Come take a madcap meeting with them anyway and see how and why they leave common sense behind as the new hospital administrator William Petty changes everything. He adjusts associated staffing levels (fires people) and increases workloads (sometimes for the fired people). He even limits Father Chuck to added-value duties. In response, the employees begin to form bad habits and a union. However, no one handles the changes worse than Bigger, a kitchen worker with a belief that he is affected by invisibility rays. The worst thing he could ever imagine happens—his boss offers him a promotion. All he has to do is betray his coworkers and help keep people from voting for the union..He seeks out advice from his motley crew of friends: Dykes who tells every woman he sleeps with that he is lonely; Dan the audio/visual geek who organizes the union just to piss his wife off; and even Father Chuck who is so stunned that he must now bill patients for his prayers that he spends his days bitterly smoking in the designated area for oral nicotine worship, "The Butt Hutt." The only person to give him good advice is his friend Joe who teaches him the Tao of Apathy. It's a powerful tool, but will Bigger choose to use it? Thomas Cannon did, in fact, work at a hospital pushing food carts. There are three more things that are true. He sometimes felt invisible. A doctor once acted as though the elevator should let him go his floor first. He would hang out with a great guy and bullshit while his friend smoked. Okay, there might be more things in life that are true. However, the rest of his novel is fiction. Things did come true after he wrote them. For example, he left a place of employment (not a hospital) and the employees did try to form a union. Thomas Cannon has worked at many peon jobs. But then, so have you. Please check in on him at ThomasCannon.org/blog/.