Corporate Loop

David M. Hoyle

The ZYEX, out of deference to its employees,
increased the frequency of private health checks
for stress, fatigue, repetitive strain syndrome, inertia,
depression, lack of ambition and misanthropy,

and so as to finance these complimentary provisions
there needed to be an increase in the numbers
of employees discharged or redeployed,
certain expectations had to be disappointed

and rules and regulations implemented
such as curtailment of breaks, a ban on mobile phones,
cuts to subsidies on canteen lunches
and the introduction of untrained staff members

who had searching questions to ask of the existing staff
and interrupted their ability to achieve their quota,
while involuntary overtime led to higher team attainments
and the buoyancy, as a whole, of the company

which the contributions of individual employees
made achievable, resulting in higher levels
of stress, fatigue, repetitive strain syndrome, inertia,
depression, lack of ambition and misanthropy,

and so the ZYEX, out of deference to its employees,
increased the frequency of private health checks.

David M. Hoyle grew up in West Yorkshire, England and now lives on the south coast. At various times he has found himself working at an international law firm in London, a security company in Egypt and a book warehouse in Germany. His poetry has been published in Iota, Psychopoetica and Alien Buddha Press; and reading and writing poetry during the lockdowns kept him more or less sane. He also transcribes and edits music.  Twitter: @David_M_Hoyle