Matchmakers 2.0 (A Novel Nibbles Title) - Plot & Excerpts
every time I brought it up. Since common sense hadn’t worked, I try to passive-aggressively make my point by having Derrick hack the system every Match the Loser and dump the worst clients into the marketing team’s buckets. Marketing didn’t seem to be getting the message, but no one in that department was ever going to win the contest. They’d never even cracked the top ten. I take my petty pleasures where I can.The rules of the contest are pretty straightforward. Every person in the company receives ten client profiles of people who signed up for MatchMakers more than six months ago. They are supposed to pick the best match they can find for each of their people, and MatchMakers sends them on an all-expenses-paid date. The employee with the highest average client-satisfaction score from those dates wins.The contest had some marketing-speak name, but internally it had always been known as Match the Loser. It was a popular event—the winners got cash, lots of it. You’d think the match team would have an advantage, and we do. We’re on a winning streak of four.The streak would be more exciting for me if Miri hadn’t won all four times. She held her secret formula very close to her chest. In two years of trying, I still had no idea how she picked her matches. My first couple of times in the contest, I’d spent hours trolling our database trying to match my ten. The first time, I’d cracked the top twenty, not bad for a company with almost a hundred employees. The second time, I’d been fifty-third, and the contest had been won by a guy who threw darts at a wall to pick his matches. Since then, I’ve tried to come up with various shortcut strategies. Kind of like using mascots or jersey colors to pick your March Madness brackets.
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