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A funny and deeply felt book that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives - a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Found the End that catches the emotional complexities of five HR fellow workers aiming to balance ambition, trust, and fear as their small company is buffeted by financial forces that threaten to upend them. Rosa Guerrero conquer the odds as she increased to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age group, the longtime chief of human resources at Ellery Consumer Research is still a formidable existence, even if her most vital days and nights are behind her. A leader who wields ability with sophistication and discretion, she's received the devotion and devotion of her staff. No one admires Rosa more than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a benefits vice chief executive whose whole world is Ellery. While Rosa is consumed with trying to handle the needs of her staff within the ever-constricting limitations of the business's bottom line, her associate director, Rob Hirsch, a middle-aged, gladly married daddy of two, finds himself drawing closer to his "work wife", Lucy Bender, an enterprising single woman looking for something - a romance, a campaign - to load the vacuum in her personal life. For Kenny Verville, a older supervisor with an MBA, Ellery is a short-term stepping-stone to bigger and better places - that is, if his high-powered wife has her way. Compelling, flawed, and heartbreakingly human being, these men and women scheme, street to redemption in and out of love, and nurture dreams big and small. As their individual circumstances shift, a very important factor remains constant - Rosa, the sun around whom each of them orbit. When her world begins to crumble, the implications for everyone are deep, and Leo, Rob, Lucy, and Kenny end up changed with techniques beyond their reckoning. Jillian Medoff explores the interior workings of an American company in all its brilliant, insane, comforting, and terrifying glory. Authentic, razor-sharp, and achingly funny, This Could Hurt is a book about work, loneliness, love, and devotion; about rapid reversals and sudden windfalls; a book about life.
