Hugo Kijne (1951) was born in the Netherlands and immigrated into the US in 1992. He is an organizational sociologist by training, and has held faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities in the Netherlands and in the US. Previously he has published three books of an academic nature (two in the Netherlands and one in the US) and contributed to six other volumes, all in the realms of history and sociology. Throughout his academic career he has also done journalistic work, for newspapers, journals and Dutch public radio. His self-published novel The Doghouse Administrator came out with Outskirts Press in 2009. Cover image designed by Debbie Gledorf
It Ain't Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
by Hugo Kijne
It Ain't Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
by Hugo Kijne
Published Apr 27, 2016
161 Pages
Genre: FICTION / General
Book Details
How An Abusive Boss Can Destroy You
It Ain’t Over Until The Fat Lady Sings describes how Martin Noordhof’s boss’s supervisor decides to get rid of Martin’s boss, and replaces her with a creature that has no management skills and not the foggiest idea about the work that he does, but at the same time has no inhibitions about telling him how to do his job. His new boss has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Martin, a senior administrator at a large municipal university, finds out that being in a subordinate position to such a person is torture. The creature demands the immediate execution of every instruction, no matter how insane and damaging to the operation Martin is responsible for, and everything that goes wrong as a result of its orders is Martin’s fault, because the creature considers itself infallible. The book tells the story of how Martin’s battle with his new boss results in the end of both of their careers.
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