The Company Men Page #2

Italy.

- Italy?

Wow! Boy, that's great.

I can go, right?

Yeah... Of course, sweetheart.

Phil?

- Yeah.

Oh, God.

Ann Doherty called.

- They fired Conal.

Are we okay?

- Yeah.

I should get ready.

- For what?

We've got Salinger's dinner.

Oh God, I completely forgot.

You don't have to come if

you're not feeling up to it.

Just gimme a minute

to put my face on.

Gene...? Where've you been?

The car's picking us

up in half-an-hour.

I really don't want to be late again.

Can we please try

not to be late again?

Stephanie finally found a table.

For the window? I like it.

George Hepplewhite

fruitwood table...

...With paint and inlay decorations.

Circa 1820, Price: $ 16750.00

I'm coming.

Hi.

Hi, how are you? How you doing?

- Good, good, thanks.

How go the suit wars, Bobby?

- Alright, Jack.

Move any more high

paying American jobs...

offshore to Asian

shitholes this week?

Mostly focused on

union busting now.

You know how it is.

Surprised you could make it.

No early flight or golf game?

Those are the usual

excuses, aren't they?

Aww hey, Bobby.

- Hey! Birthday girl.

I can't believe you're thirty-five.

I mean, you don't look

a day over twenty-one.

Aww, see Jack, now

that's how it's done.

You're a liar Bobby,

but I love you for it.

You need to get back to

your post, barbecue boy.

Alright, alright.

Why don't you grab

yourself a drink, Bobby.

We got some margaritas

in the blender...

and we got some beers

out back in the cooler.

Thanks.

Now there's action!

Who better to present this year's

Man of the Year Award...

than the man who's known

him longer than anyone else.

Gene McClary is Executive

Vice-President...

of GTX Global

Transportation Systems.

He's also, I'm told, one of GTX's...

first employees. Gene McClary.

Thank you.

Actually, if memory serves,

I was GTX's only

employee at the time.

Nobody wanted Gloucester

Shipbuilding,

years of multi-million

dollar losses,

the highest labor

costs in the industry.

But from those

humble beginnings,

Jim was able to grow

Gloucester into GTX...

with sixty thousand employees

and eleven billion dollars

in gross annual revenue.

So it is my priviledge to

introduce my oldest friend,

college roommate,

the best Man at my

wedding and the...

worst tennis player I ever met.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

My boss, Jim Salinger.

Thank you, ladies and

gentlemen. Without a doubt...

you don't build a company

like GTX without the

support and leadership...

of a man like Gene McClary.

Executive offices.

Hi, Bobby Walker, GTX.

Down on your left.

Nice suit.

Thanks.

- Orientation?

Yeah.

- That way.

Oh, thanks.

- Do "The Tiger" for me.

What?

- Down the hall.

Thanks.

First, let me tell you

what outplacement is not.

We're not an employment agency.

We're here to help

you help yourself.

Now you all need to put together...

a networking list of

all your friends.

That's suppliers, competitors,

people you sat next

to at a convention,

neighbors, dentists.

Anybody and everybody.

You need a new resume.

You're going...

to be sending out

hundreds, so make it good.

Endings.

We're not used to them.

Fear, anxiety, loss.

How many of you are

feeling these things?

Endings, fear, change,

and finally...

Success.

Okay, everybody up. C'mon,

no use sitting around...

feeling sorry for ourselves. Up, UP.

This is called "The Tiger", we do

it when we need get our energy up.

I... Will... Win.

Why? I'll show you why!

Because I have-- Faith!

Courage! Enthusiasm!

Everybody this time.

No thanks.

- I... Will... Win.

Why?

Because I have-- Faith!

Courage! Enthusiasm!

Good. I... Will... Win.

Did Bobby Walker call back?

Yeah, last night.

- He leave a message?

Not one I'd care to repeat.

See if he can come

by for lunch today.

Stock's up six. Not bad.

My 401K is all GTX.

This continues, I may

get to retire before I'm eighty.

With Ship Systems

and Rail Products...

merging, we are reassigning

sales regions.

How are we doing with

Royal Caribbean?

They're nervous, don't

like seeing us...

on Bloomberg every

fifteen minutes.

Well calm 'em down,

we need that boat.

How're we supposed

to cover the same...

number of accounts

with half the staff?

I'm already gone two

weeks out of four,

what am I supposed

to tell my kids?

Tell 'em you're lucky

you still have a job.

Inactive accounts.

I want to know what

we're going to do to...

get the business back.

Client by client.

It's taken.

Alright.

Hey.

Come in here.

- Thanks.

Appreciate it.

Friendly bunch.

- You are the enemy.

Another warm body they

gotta claw their way over

to get back to the

corporate food trough.

And yet, you're not threatened.

I'm a very secure individual.

Besides, you do not

look like an engineer.

MBA?

- Yeah.

If you knew your way around

a guided missile system,

I'd have shove an ice pick

into the base of your skull.

Damn right.

Your previous employer

has spared no expense.

Fax machine, Xerox, coffee.

How was your orientation?

I felt like someone was

going to shave my head...

and make me beat a drum.

What... uh, what do you gotta do to...

get yourself in one

of those offices?

Your company has to pay

extra for one of those.

Exec V.P.'s and above, mostly.

That corner one has an

Eastman-Kodak CFO in it.

How long they give you?

Three months full salary, four...

months outplacement.

How about you?

Nine months of both.

I've been here four.

It won't take me more

than a few days.

No offense.

None taken.

Sorry I'm late,

how you holding up?

- Good.

Maggie all right?

Yeah, she's great, we're fine.

Glenlivet, rocks.

It wasn't my call, Bobby.

Salinger's under a lot of pressure

to boost the stock price...

before someone buys

in and makes...

him break up the company.

We'd lose a lot more

jobs in a merger...

than we have in this downsizing.

You trying to appeal to my sense

of the greater corporate good?

I've been calling in some markers.

Tom Borden over at Lockheed,

Pat Leahy at Raytheon...

You oughta recognize

most of them.

Come on, let's get

something to eat.

No thanks. I've lost my appetite.

Take the names, Bobby.

Don't bother

reassigning my accounts.

I'm gonna steal them

back from you when

I get a job with the competition.

Hey.

- Hey.

Hey.

- Hey.

How'd it go?

- Great.

Yup?

- Yeah.

Alright.

I had lunch with Gene,

he gave me some names.

That's big of him.

Yeah, I mean, he didn't have

to do anything, ya know.

Yeah.

What, what is all this?

Uh, our mortgage is

resetting next month.

With that, and the... paying

off the orthodontist...

and last summers

Disneyworld trip,

we don't have much

of a cushion left.

We don't need a cushion.

The Porsche payments, the credit

cards, your Patriots tickets.

I told you, I'm splitting the

Pats tickets with Darryl this year.

Okay, well, just eating

out and doing the damn...

dry cleaning is costing us

six hundred bucks a month.

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