About the Author
During the Great Information Age from the 1970s to the early 2000s, William P. Moore worked as a salaried writer in various outposts deep in the corporate jungle.
Cardinal Ghosts & Acid Trips
Extract from "Fantastic Response: Work Stories from the Great Information Age" © 2010, 2020 William P. Moore 1 Going to Work for Big Daddy The people and places come and go, asking to be dispelled. The flashbacks are gray and disordered. One night at Cardinal’s original office on Monroe Road, Big Daddy CEO held a “future stockholders” meeting. He and the head of sales spoke about how rich we were going to be. Big Daddy struck me as having a huge appetite, someone who wanted to eat life before it ate him. He was powerful when he held the floor, and I remember some of us were jittery with expectation when we got up to introduce ourselves. At the time I really wanted to believe in all the blue sky predictions. I never expected the Cardinal saga would leave such a trail of woe. In a dream set in the present I saw Jay the Courier, still alive, using his arthritically twisted hands to load DART audio-visual instructional units into the...