Jeff Gerstenfeld

Downsized and Othersized Jeff Gerstenfeld

Getting downsized from your job is bad enough. But Joey, an arrogant system engineer, was downsized from the human race!Stuck in an interspecies placement agency's Limbo Room together with a colorful assortment of other downsized individuals, Joey has two choices: stay in Limbo until retirement age, or accept an animal transfer position. Joey spends some time as a promiscuous rabbit, then as a family dog. When the family cat - who's actually a downsized woman - takes sadistic revenge on him for his immoral rabbit behavior, Joey is profoundly humbled and does some serious soul searching. He decides that whatever it takes he must return to his previous life to set things straight with his long-neglected parents. After finally getting on his Animal Resources representative's good side, she reveals the only way to be human again, but he must win a human's complete trust. With nothing to lose, Joey takes another transfer - this time as a gorilla. But will he succeed?