Haha totally. Spot on.

My favorite moment is when the senior lady has to pause and check his file to see that he's been there for NINETEEN YEARS.She didnt' even check before he came in ...that's how humdrum this is treated.

and that vocal fry one the one made my eye twitch

you literally just copied @davidrendall7195's comment but changed the wording a bit. what the fuck is wrong with you? ever had a thought of your own? i have them every day. it's nice. you should (and will fail miserably) try it someday.

Surprised there wasn't a women of color on HR staff which is the norm.

That right there is grounds for a lawsuit if he gets fully vested in a pension at 20 years.

@@akulkis in reality it wouldn't matter lots of people have that happen for that very reason & trust me its harder to prove then just saying i'm 11 months short or I'm 60+ years old been here 19 years & so they fired me. And most law firms wont even touch it.

They are tasked with firing 2/3s of the floor which means lots of people they aren't going to know every little detail about each person their letting go or even why their being let go. This isn't a guy being fired for cause & obviously in either case they don't want to personalize the person because that makes it harder to do even if it's a single firing of an employee who clearly did something wrong like striking another employee. Ironically I've seen people in unions who can threaten & even attack co-workers & they can't be fired or even transferred. I've also seen it where the person who was attacked was transferred or fired even though it was on security camera a dozens of witnesses that the female supervisor was harassing & slapped the male co-worker. Neither of whom were union but the guy ultimately was give the option of transferring sites or being fired because clearly the two couldn't work together but the female supervisor who also was older then 45 was more of a risk for lawsuits the company could face & felt the dude was less of a threat & less likely to sue if for no other reason then time & money it would take to do so especially when most labor lawyers wouldn't touch it because it would be a hard case. Unlike firing of a female manager in her 40s or older who'd also been there for 15 years. It's easier for 20 something dude to try to find a new job or career then for a over 45 especially a female in a management position etc. Plus obviously many companies these days want to show themselves as not hiring just males for management some industries & companies are legally required to have certain number levels.

@@craighanson-rc1md They were perfectly satisfied with his performance right up until a few months before he would be vested in a pension is a prima facea case. There doesn't need to be any other evidence. The act of wrongful firing in and of itself is all that's needed for a plaintiff to win such a case, unless the company has concocted some faked-up "poor performance" records to justify it. Even "the position has been terminated" often isn't enough. The employee should be offered another position to stay employed. There is nothing new about this, but many companies THINK that they can get away with it.

@@akulkis i am aware of that but when you get fired for any reason things change & my point was it's not uncommon for companies to find "reasons" to fire people just before things vest.

They didn't want him to help with anything. They just wanted him contained so that he couldn't tell anyone about what was about to happen until the sale was complete and the information worthless. He was paid to sit in a room doing literally nothing

Both Eric and Will didn't really understand the gravity of the thing that he found. It took Peter putting the finishing touches on it to really figure it out. Only then did they understand the issue.

this was shocking to me, he is getting fired and his only concern is what will happen to the firm, let me finish the work please.

Take em for everything they're worth, then don't help.

​ @roc7880 He knew the implications of what he was working on. This was a marketwide issue, he may not have been able to complete his models but he knew what they were indicating in general. Other firms were doing the same thing they were. He wasn't just putting together something that showed how at-risk the firm was, it showed the potential collapse of the entire global economy. Hence the "be careful" and his three attempts to pass his work off prior to being shoved out the door-plus the brief mention of "I never should have gone to her a year ago with that" was probably him warning of the possibility of this type of occurrence. Though I'm sure he didn't see it being as bad as it ultimately was.

Couldn't agree more

Never Ever sell your Soul...PERIOD!

Even if you do your best the company can find ways to criticize your work of they decide to. Nothing can protect you

It's not personal, Sonny...it's strictly business

Waiting for all the greedy corporate boomers to go bat shit over this sound advice.

Haha

Don't trust him. You don't know what he'll do behind your back.

I LOVE your comment

I tell people all the time; good news, I work for myself, bad news, he’s an asshole

Idk I heard ur boss is weird

HR ..... must stand for humanoid robots.

No shit. HR doesn’t work for you, they work to protect the company.

Human resources hardly care about human empathy at all

When the personnel department became human resources - it all changed

@@specialandroid1603 About the same time teachers became 'educators'.

Yeah sure but just because she would be the one to tell you if management decided to fire you doesn't mean you can't be nice to her you stupid sperg

Haha totally thought that. Would be better if it was a middle finger.

Made me think of George Clooney in "Up in the Air". Amazing how all the brochures they hand out are all boiler-plate the same. That bloody picture of a boat sailing off into the distance....

so true, so true. Don´t think you´re being sacked: we´re giving you that long-wished-for opportunity to finally have your own boat in the nice blue sea!

It can actually be much worse... During my Dotcom Bomb layoff years ago, we went through the exact same routine as is depicted in this video with a special extra touch. The third party hired to handle the layoffs wanted to escort me out of the building immediately without allowing me to return to my desk to get my personal effects. Which they said they would "mail" to me at their earliest inconvenience... At which point I made it clear I was not going leave my car in their parking lot and break into my own apartment because they invited me to an ambush style termination meeting without telling me to bring my personal effects. But I encouraged them to try and stop me from getting my things if they thought it was worth it to them. They may have been assholes, but they weren't fools...

He was looking ahead when the threw his Blackberry; I know that "just stuff it" feeling.

It used to be called Personnel but they took the people out of it

Ain't that the truth. Human's use reason. When those college trained monkeys are replaced by robots, I suspect more reason will return.

@@terryjohnson8317 Now known as the anti-personnel dept.

This is how they get away with calling people 'resources'. It's been in the terminology for some time. It's absolutely repugnant.

Maybe thats they call it these days Talent Management.

They act just like this. Banking is next! The USA has 10,000 banks and 98% of them are not necessary!! Canada only has about 400 banks!

She’s probably not even employed by the firm. She’s with an outside company hired to do the firings

@@iamgermaneCanada has a smaller population than California

@@badlydrawncars6460 So what? Still too many banks in the USA.

of course she doesnt, the other one thought Zachary Quinto was Eric Dale

I think she was the fall guy from the very beginning (ie a year ago). Tuld knew something like this was possible, and sorta planned for it.

Best part of that scene is Emerson refusing to look at Dale's work. He knows exactly what's on there but when the inevitable shit hits the fan he wants Tuld etc to think ha had no idea..

This happened to me. The very people I warned about risk were the people that stood to make $$ from it. And if it blew up in their faces , the risk analyst that warned them all along is the first to be cut.

"fall guy"... yeah... gotta be tough to walk away with millions.

This is not correct. Later it is revealed that Robertson actually took the issue up to her higher ups but was forced to keep on going by Tult himself. Her flaw is that she eventually agreed to go along to safe her own career and thereby ditch Eric Dale.

LOL perfect job for a woman 😂

@@DimitriTheBarbarian HR is often referred to as a "pink ghetto" cuz it's a department that women get stuck in and cant' get promoted out.

Was your severance package comparable to his in the movie?

@@DimitriTheBarbarianYup. Cold, fake empathy and doesn’t require a lot of intelligence or skill other than being soulless and totally indifferent to others.

@@shriharihudli8596 that is why HR employees are ALWAYS exclusively WOMEN. My favorite is front desk staff at DENTAL offices: these women sit there doing basic function like little robots without any attachment to reality. “It will be 5,000 dollars final bill for your dental implant, Sir.” - But 6 months ago I was told total bill would be 3,500?!! - PIKACHU FACE. Frustration. Annoyance. Would you like to talk to our “billing department” - just another soulless female printing some billing info she can’t understand and can’t explain

100% agree Buck. I never have personal stuff in the office. Always be ready to leave quickly.

and you and I are an atm to women. sad but true

I don’t have a family. But I still agree with your point, I’ll never put work before my personal life.

And companies are just opportunities to them. If they find better ? They quit. So, it's balanced. Let's not make companies evil, when the general public does exactly what they do, just on an individual level.

@@f.c.2475 Corporations take more government welfare than any entity. Stop drinking the Republican cool aid. I’m a multi millionaire and I think corporations are evil. Stop being a putz and wake up.

Exactly!

"Six months severance at half your salary." Basically three months salary.

Mr. Tucci is an asset to every film fortunate enough to have him. His sublime work in this scene is a superb example.

Agreed. It could easily have been overdone, but he responded precisely how a real person would have. I should know, I've been in his shoes in a nearly identical situation, all the way down to having my computer access revoked while the meeting was taking place.

mighta worked at hr

Nice details

Yeah typical HR. The one who knows jack about you fires you not your boss. They are scraping the shit. For them you are just a number, an asset.

Yep. 10 years at my firm. The real winners are all sociopaths.

Michael 100% agree. Same at the company I work for, only sociopaths and narcissists gets promoted.

Great scene, she’s legal. So the less she knows the better. Plausible deniability

I don’t know…Milton Wadoms had the right idea.

Strong move, bro. I've been let go from a job I landed right out of college. We knew the company was going down. Everyone warned that when they take away the direct deposit feature offline and you have to collect your paycheck in person from HR, the end is near...and indeed it was. I did alright...some of the other cats that were there far longer...not so much.

Nicely said!

I always Done it the other way around the Company needed a Plan b when i leave

This is why we need unions

This is an example why i work for nothing an hour, refuse to engage in company politics because thats where the reward is.. being likeable and blame passing. My mother once said that adult life is nothing like jr. High...she was wrong. Its exactly like jr. High politics. Hard work is almost always looked over in preference to group popularity.

bingo

@@jfayiii Corporate Sarah Robertson knew she is going to be exposed and she used the layoff situation as a smokescreen to fire Eric Dale inorder to prevent him from discovering the TRUTH AND TO PREVENT HER BOSS FROM DISCOVERING THE MONKEY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES THAT SHE IS DOING.

That's also why he says "be careful" when he hands it to the new guy. I didn't catch this at first either, but he meant that looking at this and alerting the wrong people could get you canned.

@@darthvader5300 Robertson gets canned in the end. I believe they keep Eric Dale. I don't think you have enough information to attribute the layoff completely to Robertson; for instance, how would she know what Dale was working on? Also don't forget that if Dale/Sullivan don't figure out the MBS bomb in time, no one gets any bonuses. I think everyone up and down the line must have known the firm was highly leveraged; I think Robertson tried to say this was, well risky, and was overruled. Someone had to take blame and they decided on Robertson; if they had been honest, they could have fired just about everybody.

Because they are MFERS..

That’s why I don’t give a two week notice anymore and just quit, even with jobs I like, my bosses have looked at me and said I HAVE to give a two week notice, I always point out there is no law stating I have to give a two week notice and I was at lease, not owned.

He could keep his unvested options.

@@mreese8764 exactly. And 6 months of half pay of a salary that takes most people a decade to earn. Everyone at these companies makes far far more than they deserve and it comes with the knowledge you could get nuked.

Find the hidden advantage... If they don't give af, you don't have to either.

hahahaha love it

You could have made some good money there. Don't let emotion do the talking.

Could've been real mercenary right there...

I would’ve told them it was going to cost them. I would’ve demanded double the pay and immediate firing of the people that fired me.

@@thefutureisnow7300 Forget that. Hourly rate at 4 times, 4 hours minimum billing per call. Let them keep their jobs... no sense throwing TNT into the gold mine.

pretty much like corporate HR in real life

Good acting.

That's what they're paying her for.

Yeah great acting. How it really goes down in real life.

Not soul-less, but I think deliberately having to put on a mask to get the job done - - otherwise, I suspect she wouldn't be married...

Lol at the sailboat.

Notice the non-disclosure agreement paperwork right underneath the brochure.

@@jasonrfoss248I'm happy to say that in many states, it's now illegal for an employer to require an NDA for access to post-job benefits. Progress!

@@funkmonsterthey’re basically telling Eric he’s old and he should do what old people do. Move to Florida

@@thefutureisnow7300 Nah. It means sailing to the Undying Lands and dancing with the fucking elves.

Imagine if the security escort had done his job. Moving around flash drives of corporate files is exactly the thing that he should be trying to prevent the severed employee from taking with them 😂

@@JeremyHoffman i literally had this exact thought the first time i saw it, but thats the way it is in real life too - when you have that many people to lay off, does a security guard care if one guy quickly hands a flash drive to another who still works at the company? probably not

Will was nice too. He just has that tough guy personality, but he was sincere.

Still ridiculous to cast a guy with that face as a character named Sullivan

How can they be this thorough about security and avoiding lawsuits, but let him keep a fucking thumb drive with work stuff? Or Peter actually plugging that random thumb drive from a recently fired employee into the company PC? Compliance and IT would be all over that

@@BadMofo-gv3xm Actually, I think Will is somewhat on the spectrum or sociopathic. There are several moments (one early scene with Sam (Spacey)) where he looks like he is consciously working out what the empathetic thing to say is, and has to calculate it because he doesn't feel it. In this clip his response to Eric is often closer to HR speak than that of a colleague.

Well said, yes it makes it easier to get the fuck out as nothing spells out "getting fired" or laid off than some sorry man or woman carrying a box out of an office who either has tears/misery in his/her eyes, or has the look of "I am going to come back to this office Monday with my shotgun to get even".

Very smart indeed.

Sad but true. Nowadays, with your own (not the company’s) cell phone & a personal thumb drive, you need nothing else. I once picked a relative at his workplace, to go to a game. A co-worker approached, introduced herself and started asking questions of a personal nature about him. Surprised, I didn’t answer. I mentioned it to him, and he replied, “They don’t even know I’m married.” His policy is to divulge nothing personal and to have no non-professional interactions. Probably for the best.

@@bigjake2295 absolutely. When I was in a management position I gave out nothing. Turned down FB requests and had my profile locked down. Turn down offers for social gatherings. Always explained why that is was for the best. At my next company I there were parties all the time with mid and senior level management with entry level workers. I avoided that. Then finally one day the drama came out, hook ups, drug use, high school stuff pretty much and one day they began walking people out as the top top people caught wind and felt the cohesion of our department was compromised.

Had the same thoughts. So much so when I quit a job that treated us terribly, I let them clean out the stuff I had, as none of it was personal, and I walked out the door.

I saw it happen to a woman that spent 30 years in the company. When someone higher says, 'They want you gone'...gone you are, immediately.

Knew a guy it happened to him...he had files at home....didn't return them but burned them...company lost 100k cause they couldn't find the files...he was laughing hard

@@Dilley_G45 There was a guy who got laid off for no real reason besides the fact that his new boss didn't like him. The guy went and fucked the whole company because he was the one who created the entire software that the company used from scratch. All the coding and programming were done by him alone. The day he got kicked, he made the software unusable which resulted in the company begging him to return. He just watched the place burn down (also heard that his new boss was immediately fired by the higher-ups for getting rid of such an important guy) RIP

Seems to be the norm....

Good old corporate America

Absolutely - not only that but she had to check how long he was with the firm. They didn't know, nor care, about how long he was actually there -- that line was likely scripted from HR to appear empathetic when in reality it's the complete opposite. If they cared even a little bit, they could have reviewed that information for 10 seconds prior to having him come in.

Great analysis.

Even more so they didnt even know what he looked like

Nathaniel Thomas Great point Nathaniel

Great comment

The firm didn't survive. It just went down with a bang.

@@windyblower1211 Nah they survived, but just barely with their reputations are wall street shattered. Likely they rode with the ballouts and clawed back up years later like Goldman Sachs did.

@@akachiokafor2338 You're right. Excuse my earlier comment. The firm was the first to know of the trouble and the first to take action to mitigate their losses. They probably survived and had the easiest time among all the firms at that point in time. Reputation is ruined the most too tho

They knew it was coming, hence getting rid of people as the end was near. They just didn't realise how near till Peter finished his work and said it's already happening.

@@akachiokafor2338 they are supposed to be goldman in this movie. Goldman got out first and survived. Lehman tried to get out second and died.

Is he hiring? Seems like he has talent in sails.

@@samsunga10samsung78 Trading and finance usually have little to do with maritime activities.

There's a horror story behind every weird ruling, ever. When you wonder about why there's a sign telling you not to eat the ceramic plates in the restaurant, it's because some sick fuck once busted the inside of his mouth open when he tried to eat his plates. When you wonder why they deactivate the access codes of an employee before he even exits the building, it's because once there was a man who was let go by his employer and who went back to set the system on fire out of revenge. Is it a slap to the face? Sure, but that's partly due to people reacting sensitive to things they can't change instead of moving on. Fact is, there's a reason for the procedure.

@@NtoTheM Agreed.

@@chiffydragon 😂👍

HR is a snake pit. Trust no one with "HR" in their job title.

It's always politics over productivity. Always. I knew this as a little boy and that's why I never strived to do anything. I'm not going to toil my life away for a system or a corporation that's just going to toss me to the wolves because someone is able to play the superiors, through Machiavellian influence, better than I am. ( Not that I not capable I'm just focused on my work and its applications= politics always encumbered my game) the corporate world is just a more complex 5th grade. If people want to make it they have to be exceptional at what they do and then be able to market it in a way that's acceptable to the culture... There are thousands of brilliant people that are destroyed daily because they're the threat.

@@jhonfamo8412 never striving to do anything sounds like an excuse to be lazy

@@will2brown50 You sound like an NPC.

@@will2brown50 Or smart..

Way to bring a personal grudge over everyday business into professional workings. One can only hope you lost that job soon aswell.

@@NtoTheM "One can only hope you lost that job soon aswell." You're mad that a person is using his business savvy and personal experience to ruthlessly cut off a business relationship with an unreliable and potentially dangerous party? Why? Especially when you don't have any personal investment in his business; I don't get why you're so angry?

@@roadent217 Bruh, someone gets let go by his employer. What in the fuck about that makes that company unreliable and potentially dangerous?? Clearly he did have a lot of personal investment, otherwise he wouldn't have used his professional ties for petty revenge. If you don't see the issue there then it's not me who needs to do some explaining.

@@NtoTheM - nope. Doing really well. Barely a bump in the road. It’s a small world. Markets and industries are insular. People remember. Networks are connected. Which is why you should always be nice.

@@mattmatt7305 Nice as to make getting let go a personal vendetta and using the new position to satisfy your pride, even if it doesn't do either company any favors? A big bump in the road. You're the people that cost economies money because they put their own ego over everyone else. Now. All I just wrote *would* account, if only your whole story wasn't a fairytale anyway. So in the end, you're just an asshole in your own imagination. Which can be even more sad, depending on one's point of view.

Do you know what the word 'oblivious' means? It seems that you don't. They know who he is and what he has done, they just don't care.

@@AQHackAQ they had no idea what he did until they sat down for the interview just now. Look at her reading the paper and just realizing he worked 19 years at the firm.

@@DBCOOPER888 That's not implied in the scene at all. She's just checking the paper for the exact number. The people doing these termination/layoff exercise have a quick read-through and review the profile of the people they're going to speak to, they don't do it on the spot lol.

@@AQHackAQ It absolutely is implied in the scene. They're talking to each other like they never interacted ever, and Dale was not upper management or anything. She had to go through dozens of these interviews, she didn't have time to learn about the guy days in advance. That one woman didn't even know where he sat at first.

@@DBCOOPER888 Huh I never said they ever interacted with each other before the meeting. I don't think you understand how these exercise typically work, yes they have to go through a lot in a single day, but they definitely always do a quick read-through on the profile before calling them, how do you think she would know who and roughly where to find them? Their names and position/title would be at the very top of the papers. It would be absurd to call someone in and doing an adhoc read at that moment. Each person being fired have different circumstances and different severance packages, she would need to know and understand at least that before the meeting.

But, but, what about when your company is a "family"..........

I don't think so. He closes with "be careful", he knows the material is dangerous to anyone's career and is effectively putting Peter at risk. He does it because he feels that Peter trusts and respects him and his work, so he's the the most likely to actually "honor" the material.

He's a better person than me. 19 years only to be laid off? They're lucky he didn't go to another company and warn them. Could've gone somehere else without a second of remorse.

James, that's true! I came here to write this. He only gave the USB when Peter made the nice gesture of saying a personal goodbye and thanked him.

@@sapphirelight748 That 6 mo severance + keeping all unvested stock means he probably has a NDA and can't work for a competitor for 6-12 mo. That's pretty standard.

I disagree to a certain extent. Remember after he was fired and his boss walked in to say goodbye, he pointed out that he was working on something big and someone needed to take a look/continue but he was effectively shut down.

Seth is a perfect character of all the people who are fully aware of what finance is like but watched wolf of Wall Street and want the Porsche hahha

that stooge should be fired the first. Typical self-centered mong.

@@Ringperfect ROFL, so accurate. Seth is like the kid whose rich parents paid for his Wharton MBA because he saw Wolf of Wallstreet and said "I want that!"

Tucci is essentially a top level supporting actor Doesn't have the look to be a leading man

he had stock options in there, prob didn't want them go to waste, plus insurance coverage

First thing...call broker...sell everything

@@kincaidwolf5184 Doesn't work in the US in the way it does in the UK.

It shows that he was a decent, hard working guy that got the ax. Paul Bettany's character is great, but it wasn't his work ethic that saved his position. Corporations need mercenaries as much as hard workers.

@@kincaidwolf5184 In the US, unemployment insurance is used where it is funded as a mandatory tax while you are employed and utilized when you are laid off. Almost all pensions are separate legal entities from their parent corporation, and the bankruptcy of the company would not impact the pension fund, but it is possible for the pension fund to independently go bankrupt due to internal factors as mismanagement or external factors like the collapse of an investment sector. The US also has been moving away from using pensions in favor of individually managed retirement plans (IRA / 401K) which are funded from the employees wages and managed by the company at all, expect with the possibility of employers matching a percentage of retirement contributions as a perk. This is a general overview of US retirement and unemployment systems which are largely unaffected by the employees' company's solvency. Is the UK's significantly different?

It's everywhere. It's toxic and it runs the good employees out and then they fold up like a sardine and wonder what happened.

Isn't it weird how often people with great personalities and actual skill get replaced with an incompetent morons? It's like a loopback effect.

Saw it happen SO many times...the incompetent get hired because they're the "friend of a friend."

Of course, he trained everyone in the dept to be self sufficient and so they could cut costs by ditching him and replacing him with the big bosses retarded nephew. This is the way of corporate nepotism.

Yep, 'often happens. I was fired by a total plum. Luckily there was a management buyout three weeks later and they fired him and hauled me back at more money. Talk about karma!

I work in a restaurant too. Something similar happened.

I also worked at a restaurant, same thing

So, who made the food?

@@mikehanes4514 They didn’t work for the hotel. They just used our lounge area.

Sounds like the opening scene of Dark Knight 😂

Good ending

Epic...i have a similar story, my grandfather hated his job and just wanted to retire, one day the boss called him and fired him, when leaving the office he was soooo gloating of happiness that his colleagues were worried about him and called my grandmother to see if he came back X'DDD

I knew layoffs were happening at an insurance company I worked at on a specific day. I was not on the list to be laid off. I used the previous six months and my contacts there to build a part time practice. Two weeks before layoff day, I put $3600 down on an office rental and had intended to resign on the day they did the layoffs. Literally an hour before closing my boss called me in and walked me to the conference room. I got two months of full salary and four months of medical. An hour later at closing I would have quit with no notice and instead walked out with 24k in salary and benefits. They were the reason for my practice success that year. 17 years later I am still self employed.

@@maxmad1078 I worked in a place with really toxic management. I had a lot of stress and my confidence was low, so I was delaying about leaving. Then one day there was a round of lay-offs and I was included. When I was told it felt like a weight being lifted off my shoulders I and spent the rest of the "meeting" having an enjoyable chat with the team lead who'd broken the news to me. I got a nice severance and because I was in IT, I didn't have to work any notice. I drove home smiling that day and landed a new job two weeks later.

the actress that escorted him to the office had multi-episode appearance in "How I Met your mother" show.

@@rivermerchant6102 She's also been the lead actress on several Hallmark movies.

To a risk management head... That's truly ironic....

You’re missing the point. Halving the wages extended his medical coverage by double.

Who had a ton of years put in...talk about cheap...and they ALL knew he just bought a new brownstone and was relatively strapped for cash...then again, he's in the market moreso than most, he should've known better than buy in, though this was at the very early days of all this risk and chaos coming to fruition, we were all blindsided in some way.

@@neoneherefrom5836 thank you for that comment! Anyone from outside of US probably missed that. I know I did. We don't have issues like that so stuff like that often goes over our heads...

@@neoneherefrom5836 after 19 years, for a senior exec that's still a pittance.

Exactly why I never put up any family pictures on my desk, these companies don't care and will just kick you to the curb

I think thats why they have security at big firms do it

@@nczioox1116 I told my bitch boss where to go and what she could do to herself while she was going there!

But you didn't, proof that you are a professional!

@@maxmad1078 Still sucks being laid off by people who aren't professional.

There you go. That's the lesson. They welcome you when you're needed and the minute they feel the exploitation has dissolved, they cancel you

Cool story brah

"...got busted for cheating on his wife with the receptionist." Pretty lame cliche isnt it.

@@lieshtmeiser5542 As long as it's consensual and not during working hours (or on the reception desk), this shouldn't be a reason to fire someone. At my wife's former employer here in Germany, some head of department and his secretary were fired after being caught doing it in their office - basically not actually for doing it but for work time fraud as they hadn't clocked off before.

: Similar experience. Mine was office management, and I got the boot for finding huge fraud in the reporting of hours worked in and out of the office, not to mention other irregularities that were costing the company nearly three thousand dollars a week in only one regional office. I got called in by the RVP, given the third degree, and within two weeks my position was merged with another, with me "no longer necessary". I'd already given my report to the business manager, who before he was hassled to the point of finding a new job gave it to the COO. By the end of the next month, the regional office was shuttered, all management and both execs were fired, and folded into the corporate office (what was only six miles down the road). One of the execs was prosecuted by the company for fraud, and then the IRS got involved. Last I heard she got out of min-sec in two years for good behavior. (She had been the RVP.)

@Roy G Biv me too the scumbag followed me around so i called my homies they came and did a drive by shooting but shot the security and doorman instead now im doing 15 years :(

One of the most undersung actors of our time, yes

I agree...so underrated...but so good and on point in every role. He is my main man.

I love him..

Fabulous 💭

Remember the only qualification to be a contract security guard is that you are breathing. Unless he was specifically told something he will not do it. He is only there to look intimidating.

guard was just happy there were no out bursts, violence or threats ....the sooner it was done the better ....just look the other way and deny anything happened ......it was going to be a long day of escorting people get through it go home and have a beer

When I was made redundant in a big pharma merger, they did it over the phone, then sent a guy to sign docs, etc. They were worried I still had pens with the company name on them. But the $600 printer/fax/scanner? Nope, "keep it, not on the list." 🙄

Unfortunately that would be insider trading, and he'd go to jail on top of it.

😅

Happens every day. He would just have to be smart about it and keep a low profile.

That would likely have been illegal. A better move - tricky given the tiny timescale of events - would have been to threaten to go to the media/every other counter party and inform them of what was the real situation unless he was suitably taken care of.

Sure, blackmail instead of insider trading.

Yes, right down to Tucci's facial expressions as he's doing the long walk to elevator with boxes. Brutal. And great acting job.

Skype...no way

Same here, was fired over teams.

Yeah, that nepotism BS. Fuck them. It did you a massive favour.

Truth.

I hope that company went up in smoke and you dancing on its charred remains.

@@djargus actually she's in prison.... for killing the owner's daughter

Agreed. This is an almost perfect movie, right down to the cheesy “Looking Ahead” sailboat.

Agreed. I can’t believe that such a great movie with this cast and almost everyone I mention it to has never heard of it let alone seen it.

I'm working on 12 times.. but I'll get there.. 🙂

Like all of them, no one care these days.

The most common time to get fired is days before you're entitled to something more. Dangle that carrot, then yank it away. Suckers, all of us.

that is truly evil

Which is totally against compliance but the dude is very resourceful

Yeah, that was ridiculous. It almost took me out of the movie it was so wrong.

Donald Li yes I’m sure it happens a lot in real life

Haha by 2020 now we know this is fucking horrible. He deserved to be fired for that!

Thats actually very easy to do. Security doesn't really know whats personal and what's not. I had to take a box of stuff out of an office amd security had to check what was in there, but they aren't the TSA, you could easily take a thumb drive.

Why?

Listen to the beats playing as Sullivan stands there gathering the courage to do that. They play again as the scale of the potential losses hits. This movie isn't quite perfect, none ever are, but damn, that there is craft.

Yep...Risk management is not a revenue-generating role. They are the always in the firing line when budgets are tight. Then whoever is left in the department will be overworked. It sucks because usually you'll need at least a Master's degree in something either legal/finance related to get that kind of job. All that education and experience to be treated like garbage...

One in his/her career? I thought being fired or changing jobs was a lot more common? In silicon valley the average time an employee stays at a company is 1.8 years, but usually because people change jobs

@@nixtoshi this isn't silicon valley and he wasn't some 28-32 year old fresh nerd

go back and just take a shit on ur bosses desk. then just walk out.

Don't let them demoralise yourself..... I hope you will get a better offer.... In corporate world, don't keep your hope up for anyone but for yourself. Best of luck man.

The finance field is very very harsh, but don't beat yourself too hard; I was let go like 10 months ago and I found a job lately. Don't give up, the juice still there in this field.

sorry to hear man

Bro what's your profile in which you were working? What's your education qualification

Yes ! This should be shown and analyzed by future filmmakers.

They also had a planned good cop/bad cop routine going. 😐

@@patriciasalem3606 haha absolutely isn't that lovely

That would be like an NFL team, firing their DC (Defensive Coordinator) just before playing in the Super Bowl. Any team stupid enough to do that would lose, and lose BIG.

to be fair peter was the one who completed the calculations for the volatility of the markets they are about to encounter but he made the framework of it and even was warning them a year before the fire sale

That's actually what the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland did. "That's too risky" "You're out of here" Spoiler: it was MUCH too risky

@@SalsaAdam Fred the Shred didn't last much longer himself. Good riddance to a piece of work.

Bunch of bitches. Imaging crying because you failed to have a Plan B in your career and put all your eggs into one basket.

Sad