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    Eric Dale is fired – Margin Call (2011)

    Weyland

    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2022–2023

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    8:34 · 2.5M views · Oct 26, 2019

    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

    1. @greenyodaNov 2022· in “Twitter to start layoffs -internal email”

      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

      CitesView on HN
    2. @Qub3dJun 2022· in “Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs”

      That is a major plot point in Margin Call , which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: this video

      CitesView on HN
    3. @pcurveJun 2023· in “I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients”

      Reminded me of this scene where Eric Dale was getting let go and HR was regurgitating canned script. this video

      CitesView on HN