According to The Elevator Principle:

“Returning service members must be re-employed in the job that they would have attained had they not been absent for military service, with the elevated seniority status and pay.“

This long-standing principle of the U.S. military is one of the core safeguards provided returning service members. 

This play, performed as a one-act, is a dramatic portrayal of a U.S. soldier, returning from the war in Afghanistan, finding that his company outsourced his job.  They refuse to give it back. 

Tired from fighting, and simply hoping to get back to living his own life with his wife, the soldier accepts his situation.  His wife doesn’t, and uses her wit, and  a creative appeal, to try to set things straight.

In the clash between capitalism vs. patriotism, the winner is often in doubt.

Approximate running time:  45 minutes / one-act