Scary Monsters

keep our people working, we'll have idle time, and idle time will lower our efficiencies." "So what?" asks Jonah. Donovan is taken aback. "Beg pardon, but how the hell can you say that?" "Just take a look behind you," says Jonah. "Take a look at the monster you've made. It did not create itself. You have created this mountain of inventory with your own decisions. And why? Because of the wrong assumption that you must make the workers produce one hundred percent of the time, or else get rid of them to

late to help her, too late to carry her back to the world she belonged to? The door opened, and there was Minor in the flesh, a tall, good-looking man of about forty, with dark, neatly combed hair and gentle blue eyes. I had built him up into such a monster over the past months, I was shocked to discover how unthreatening he looked, how normal. If there was anything strange about him, it was the fact that he was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt and a blue necktie knotted tightly at the collar. What