A Bit Like Moses

Trevor Wainwright has been Chief Executive at Pennine Pipeline Products for three successful years. He is popular and respected by the workforce, and has previously enjoyed the backing of the board of directors. His world is suddenly thrown into chaos, however, when the company is acquired by Midland Building Systems. Trevor is sidelined whilst a young and inexperienced but ruthless man from group headquarters is installed as Managing Director, and existing working practices are abandoned in favour of more fashionable trends. Trevor is fortunate in finding another post with an expanding rival company, this time as Managing Director, and on hearing of the wave of redundancies at his old firm, carries out a rescue operation. Things are going well, with Trevor poaching customers as well as talent from his old employer, unaware that history is likely to repeat itself and that he might find himself organising another, infinitely more spectacular, migration.