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- Come in.
Debra!
Hi, take a seat.
You good?
Would you like a Werther's?
- Thank you, yeah.
These are great.
I like these.
- Water?
- No, I'm fine, thank you.
- Great.
So look, I'm new here
and as you know, I was brought in
to bring a fresh perspective, a new vision.
- Okay. - And I've been observing
and what you have been doing,
it's really phenomenal.
It's great and I mean, corporate is obsessed with it.
You're really doing something for the history books.
- Thank you.
- But I'm thinking we need to shake things up a bit.
- Okay, so one thing that I was thinking was that
maybe I could have longer arms?
(boss chuckling)
- Hmm. - No that's,
that was just a stupid idea.
I didn't mean to say that.
- No, no, it's a great idea.
You know what?
I'm gonna write that down.
We are gonna put a pin in that though,
because one thing I wanted to bring up is that
I would like to bring in a new species.
- Oh, okay, great.
- Yeah, it is great.
It's a, they're called human beings
and oh-ho-ho-ho, they take over like a virus.
- Oh. - Yeah, they move quick.
They've got these, these kind of great analytical
problem-solving brains, they're excellent builders,
great with language, they've got opposable thumbs.
They also endlessly consume resources,
they're crazy polluters.
They're incredibly violent and also very selfish.
- That doesn't sound great.
- Yeah, they, they will exploit and destroy the planet
and each other for the sake of progress.
- Maybe we don't need that.
- Well, you'd be surprised, yeah.
And I mean, really, we're talkin'
if we're being honest here,
it really comes down to the bottom line, you know?
And this is comin' from all the way up top.
This was corporate, you know.
They've got my hands tied.
So we are gonna be retooling and we're gonna be moving
in kind of a more progress-themed direction.
- Okay.
So I, I guess I can clear out the empty workspaces in back?
- No, so we're gonna be moving forward without you, yeah.
We're gonna have to let you go.
- Oh.
You're firing me?
- I wouldn't say fire.
No, no, no, no, we're not.
Well, there, there will be fire.
But no, this is, well, look, it's not just you.
It's a, it's, unfortunately, it's gonna be all dinosaurs.
- Everyone?
- Everyone.
- Um, did uh, did we,uh?
Did we do something wrong?
- No, no.
I think, I think what you've been doing is great.
- Yeah, 'cause we've been doin' it
for, for, 160-ish million years.
- Well yeah, and it's, it's been a really,
it's been a phenomenal 160 million years.
But like I said, it's just,
oh, we gotta go in this new direction. (chuckling)
- Uh, all, all of us?
- Yeah, I know.
- But um...
- Mmm, my hands are tied.
(grimacing) Let me out.
(chuckling) Yeah.
- Everyone?
- Yeah, well I mean except mosquitoes
and cockroaches.
- Why? - Yeah, it's a request
from up top, it's these big wigs, blah, blah, blah.
You know how they are.
- Oh.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
It's a lot to take in.
- Yeah, I'm fine, thank you.
Um
So we still get our pensions?
- Hm?
- Our pensions?
- Mm-hm. - Okay.
And then severance pay?
- Look, here's what I'm gonna do for you.
I am going to guarantee that there will be
an epic movie franchise in your honor.
- That doesn't feel equal.
- Oh, you haven't seen the movies yet, have you?
- No.
- (laughing) Yeah.
- I guess I'll go clean out my desk.
- Oh, don't worry about that.
We will handle the transition.
- Okay. - Yeah.
Well thanks for coming in, Debra.
Feel free to grab a Werther's on your way out.
- Thanks, thanks.
These are my favorite.
(chair sliding)
- You're welcome, thank you. (chuckling)
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