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    Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story
    Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story
    Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story
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    Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story

    By Gayle Tiller

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    “Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story" is a short satirical tale of about 6,000 words. It's the week before Christmas in the North Pole. Santa and the elves receive notice that operations are being outsourced to overseas. They decide to fight back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGayle Tiller
    Release dateAug 5, 2018
    ISBN9780463787908
    Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story
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    Gayle Tiller

    Gayle Tiller's latest fiction endeavor is "Death of the Eviction Man: An Erika Mudrose Mystery Novella." She is also the author of the suspense novel "24 Hour Lottery Ticket," the mystery novel "No One Is Innocent: A Jasmine Myers Mystery," and the novella "The Ghost and the Document Reviewer: A Mystery Novella." She's also written three short stories. Ms. Tiller is mixed with African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish and she grew up in California. She enjoys learning about her family’s diverse heritage through her hobby genealogy. She also likes oral storytelling, talk radio, and politics.

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      Santa Gets Outsourced - Gayle Tiller

      Santa Gets Outsourced: A Short Story

      Gayle Tiller

      Copyright © 2018 by Gayle Tiller

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this short story may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, please email gayletiller@yahoo.com.

      Chapter One

      It was the week before Christmas in the North Pole. Santa was sitting in his library with a tall, thirty-something man dressed in a navy-blue suit with a red tie. The man was clean-shaven with thick, dark curly hair.

      Santa, I have some bad news for you, said the man.

      Ryan, what is it? Santa asked.

      Corporate has decided to outsource our operations overseas. Effective today, they are shutting down everything in the North Pole, Ryan said.

      Overseas, where?

      Some small island. I can't remember the name, but the labor is cheap and it never gets cold.

      You're kidding, right? Santa asked.

      Ryan shook his head. It's cost too much money to operate here. Our heating bills are out of control and the elves' salaries are way too high.

      Our heating bills are quite reasonable, argued Santa. Plus, corporate needs to think about the cost of air conditioning that the new place will cost.

      The people there are used to the heat, replied Ryan. And they'll make a lot less money than the elves.

      The elves only make a dollar an hour. Are the new people making less?

      Twenty cents an hour and they don't have the same benefits as the elves.

      Benefits like what?

      Santa, last year the elves organized a union and received a major raise. That really hurt corporate.

      "All they got was an increase

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