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The key to surviving corporate America is to understand its rhetoric. "Organizational change," for instance, can mean that people are being let go, canned, laid off, or, in a softer sense, "given the opportunity to relocate to corporate headquarters."
This is the story of that exact scenario, where a Fortune 500 company closed shop at a profitable subsidiary in a neighboring state. Each person mulled the idea of exchanging a laid-back, business casual dress environment for a cafeteria, a fitness center and a strangling – by a necktie (corporate attire only, please) and organizational bureaucracy.
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Matt Severnson has assembled a team of hard-working, quasi-geek individuals to build a revolutionary website for a northern Michigan city. The system becomes a big hit despite the group members' idiosyncratic traits. Fast food addiction, incessant sexual tension and heated bingo competition constantly distract the team. While the opportunity arises to build the first nationwide, government-sponsored high-speed Internet portal, the issue comes second to Matt's relationship with Katy, the team's co-leader. They cannot hate each other enough to halt their steamy romance, but they can't love each other enough to share anything but a fish dinner.