Human Resources, A Corporate Nightmare, By Floyd Kemske.
Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism.
Biomethods, Inc. is a struggling biotechnology company whose venture capital group is growing tired of pumping in new blood every quarter. Pierce is hired to turn the company around, to raise it from the dead. He intends on re-engineering the company, changing its structure and much of its personnel.
Pierce wants Norman, the unambitious manager of the Human Resources department, to find him the people with ideas and to fire the people without them. Norman's on-the-job training alternates with chapters that follow Pierce's education in management and evil in 18th-century France and England.
By the way, Human Resources was the first novel to be edited on-line on the Internet.
"Kemske understands that some of what's going on in corporate America is so horrible that only fantasy can adequately depict it." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A wonderfully ambiguous and deliciously wicked tale leavened by humor . . . in a jugular vein." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Like the best black comedy, Kemske creates . . . worlds of the imagination that make the reader first laugh, then blanch, and then grasp the painful plausibility." -- Boston Phoenix Literary Supplement