Eric Dale is fired – Margin Call (2011)
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A scene from the 2011 film Margin Call in which risk head Eric Dale is laid off by HR and hands a USB stick to a young analyst. It shows a scripted, impersonal corporate firing.
Referenced as the canonical depiction of mass layoffs and canned HR scripts whenever layoffs come up.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Reminded me of this scene where Eric Dale was getting let go and HR was regurgitating canned script. ▶ this video
There's a scene in the movie "Margin Call" (about the 2007-2008 financial crisis) in which most of a floor of employees in an investment bank is laid off: ▶ this video
That is a major plot point in Margin Call , which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: ▶ this video