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* RockBottom: Bobby finding out that his son returned the Xbox 360 he got for Christmas because he understands that the family can't afford it anymore. While a minor thing in comparison to the other losses the family has sustained, it serves as the final humiliation that Bobby suffers before approaching his brother-in-law about a job in construction, which he had previously scoffed at.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Bobby responds to an advertisement for a position as the Vice President of Marketing at a company, believing the work and the pay will at least be close to what he was accustomed to at GTX. On arriving, he's told that the job he's actually interviewing for is regional sales director, which requires relocation and pays just over half what he was making previously. Bobby storms out.
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** JerkassHasAPoint: Salinger is correct when he points out that none of the employees were ever guaranteed lifetime employment, they were paid very well during their employment, their jobs no longer needed to be done, and they were given severance packages they were not legally entitled to.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The laid off employees were very well paid for many years, but they spent too much and saved too little, resulting in avoidable hardships. They also didn't adapt to their new circumstances, choosing instead to maintain their images.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The laid off employees were very well paid for many years, years but they spent too much and saved too little, resulting in avoidable hardships. They also didn't adapt to their new circumstances, choosing instead to maintain their images.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Salinger has no qualms about firing people to increase the company's stock value. Of course, that is his job.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Salinger has no qualms about firing people to increase the company's stock value. [[PunchClockVillain Of course, that is that's his job. job]] -- and he's never actively cruel about it other than not attending Phil's funeral.
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** JerkassHasAPoint: Salinger is correct when he points out that none of the employees were ever guaranteed lifetime employment, they were paid very well during their employment, their jobs no longer needed to be done, and they were given severance packages they were not legally entitled to.
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* NoAntagonist: Salinger is the closest thing to a villain in the film, but he is just doing his job, and he isn't malicious about it, he even gives the employees better severance packages than they are entitled to. Their biggest problems aren't caused directly by unemployment, but how much their self-image is wrapped up in their jobs.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Salinger has no qualms about firing people to increase the company's stock value. Of course, that is his job.
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* TheGoodOldWays: Gene McClary ascribes to this, valuing loyalty and taking care of one's workers in an era increasingly defined by prioritizing shareholders and profit at the expense of employees. His philosophy loses out to Salinger, who represents the latter attitude, so he decides to put people to work by [[StartMyOwn forming his own company instead.]]
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* TheGoodOldWays: GoodOldWays: Gene McClary [=McClary=] ascribes to this, valuing loyalty and taking care of one's workers in an era increasingly defined by prioritizing shareholders and profit at the expense of employees. His philosophy loses out to Salinger, who represents the latter attitude, so he decides to put people to work by [[StartMyOwn forming his own company instead.]]
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* TheGoodOldWays: Gene McClary ascribes to this, valuing loyalty and taking care of one's workers in an era increasingly defined by prioritizing shareholders and profit at the expense of employees. His philosophy loses out to Salinger, who represents the latter attitude, so he decides to put people to work by [[StartMyOwn forming his own company instead.]]
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* FiringDay: One that kicks off the entire movie. Then it happens a ''second'' time halfway through.
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* BenevolentBoss: Gene [=McClary=] is the only boss any of the characters deal with directly and he's extremely affable and caring towards them. He was so protective of everyone who worked in his division that Salinger waited until he was out of town to initiate layoffs - after which he's furious.
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* MeanBoss: Averted - Gene [=McClary=] is the only boss any of the characters deal with directly and he's extremely affable and caring towards them. CEO Jim Salinger is cold enough to lay off hundreds off his subordinates, but we never see him meeting with or criticizing any of them directly, except for Gene who's been his best friend and business partner since college and whom he still attempts to make peace with even during the strain of layoffs which eventually [[spoiler: include Gene himself]].
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* MeanBoss: Averted - Gene [=McClary=] is the only boss any of the characters deal with directly and he's extremely affable and caring towards them. CEO Jim Salinger is cold enough to lay off hundreds off his subordinates, but we never see him meeting with or criticizing any of them directly, except for Gene who's been his best friend and business partner since college and whom he still attempts to make peace with even during the strain of layoffs which eventually [[spoiler: include Gene himself]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It initially seems like Phil will survive the second round of GTX layoffs due to Gene blocking any attempts to fire him. Except that even though he was the first GTX employee and has a significant stake in the company, as an Executive Vice President Gene is just another employee who can be let go from a publicly traded company at any time. Which is exactly what happens, and without his protection Phil is laid off as well.
