:08:03
Stagnant, no growth, dead.
:08:05
Oh, flat. Fair enough, but I'm sure you
agree that the product this year has been...
:08:08
It's not what you sell!
It's the selling itself.
:08:12
It's about making people
feel they have to have it...
:08:15
when they don't
really want it.
:08:18
Hayman, I'm giving you two weeks
to get things moving, or you're history.
:08:25
Wait a second. First of all, two weeks...
You gotta give me more time than that.
:08:29
- Hold it! Hold it right there!
- Yep. Yep.
:08:31
Right there.
:08:34
Every day on my way to work...
:08:36
I pass a dozen guys
carrying signs.
:08:40
"Homeless family. "
"Will work for food. "
:08:42
"Pathetic vet. God bless. "
:08:44
There's nothing I can do about them. The
ACLU says they have a right to stand there.
:08:48
So, fine,
let 'em stand there.
:08:50
But here, in my office,
in my own goddamn office...
:08:54
I don't have to live with anybody
begging me for anything!
:08:57
You got it?
:09:01
Thanks for listening.
:09:03
My door is always open.
:09:08
Well, I told you...
:09:12
there was a meeting
at 3:00 on the dot.
:09:14
An hour late, there's a reason.
Fifteen minutes late shows...
:09:17
contempt,
disorganization, laziness.
:09:19
I had to kill
the entire marketing department.
:09:22
Took a little longer than I expected.
Hi. I'm Kate Newell.
:09:25
Of course you are.
:09:28
- This is Ricky Hayman.
- Oh!
:09:30
I've been reading
all about you.
:09:33
- Oh, yeah?
- Twenty-seven months of flatness.
:09:35
Boy, that's some sort of record.
:09:38
Kate is a media analyst.
She went to an Ivy League school...
:09:42
learned all sorts
of fancy ways to sell things.
:09:45
I want her to work closely with you
for the next two weeks...
:09:48
and see if you can get sales
up eight percent.
:09:51
Eight... percent? Yeah.
Well, why not shoot for eight percent...
:09:54
Sit down.
Tell him the problems.
:09:58
Okay. There are two problems.