The Company Men Page #4

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

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