so what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
you physically take the specs from the customer?
ah.
well, what would you say… you do here?
let's see. you're michael. bolton?
laughs) to be honest with you, i love his music. i do . i am a michael bolton fan. for my money, i don't think it gets any better than when he
you're god damn right he is.
ha ha! i feel the exact same way, but it must be hard for you, i mean, having the same name as him. i celebrate the guy's entire catalogue. but anyway, let's get down to business, michael!
aha! all right. we were just talking about you. you must be peter gibbons. uh huh. terrific. i'm bob slydell and this is my associate, bob porter.
y'see, what we're trying to do here, we're just trying to get a feel for how people spend their day. so, if you would, would you just walk us through a typical day for you?
great.
uh, peter, would you be a good sport and indulge us and tell us a little more?
i beg your pardon?
eight?
bear with me for a minute.
believe me, this is hypocritical. but what if you were offered some kind of stock option and equity sharing program?
absolutely. it's all on this side of the table, trust me.
wow.
right. so there's three more people we can easily lose. there's tom smykowski.
gone.
here's a peculiar one. milton waddams.
we can't find a record of him being a current employee here.
just a second there, professor. we, uh, we fixed the glitch. so he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore. so it'll just work itself out naturally.
uh, we should move on to a peter gibbons. i had a chance to meet this young man and boy does he have straight to upper management written all over him.
um-um.
there it is.
that's terrific, peter. i,i, i'm sure you've, you've, you've heard some of the rumors around the hallway about how we're just going to do a little housecleaning with some of the software people.
naga.
mr. mike bolton. we're certainly gonna miss him.
well, it's standard operating procedure.
no! no, of course not. we always find it's better to fire people on a friday. it's statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if we do it at the end of the week. anyway, peter, what we would like to do is put you into a position where you would have as many as four people working right underneath you.
huge.
umm-hmm.
peter, congratulations. this is one heck of a promotion.