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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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