Up in the Air-5

Glocal program.

• Okay. I am just… I’m thrilled(兴奋) that everyone’s back under one roof. Welcome home, boys. I know there’s been a lot of whispering（窃窃私语） about why we’re here, so let me jump right in.（开门见山）

• Retailers are down 20%. Auto industry is in the dump. Housing market doesn’t have a heartbeat. It is one of the worst times on record for America. This is our moment.

• Now, last summer, we received a dynamite（有活力的） young woman here from, from Cornell, and she had some pretty big ideas that she challenged me with.

• And my first reaction was, “Who does this kid think that she is?” But after I gave it a listen, she really knocked me out（说服我）. So, with a peek into our future（展望未来）, Natalie Keener.

• If there’s one word I want to leave you with today, it’s this.

• Our global must become local. This company keeps 23 people on the road at least 250 days a year. It’s expensive, and it’s inefficient.（效率低）

• When I came to Craig three months ago with this, he told me, and quite astutely（精明）, it’s only a problem if you have a solution.

• Well, today I stand before you with just that. You all know Ned in reception.(接待) Today I’m gonna fire Ned. Sorry, Ned. I’m sure HR will hire you back this afternoon.

• We’ll see about that.

• Now Ned could be any employee in any one of our clients’ locations worldwide.

• Strategy packets will be shipped in advance. Ned would be given a seat and find one of our transition specialists waiting for him.

• the reason we’re having this conversation is your position is no longer available.

• I don’t understand. I’m fired?

• That’s my fucking line.

• This is the first step of a process that will end with you in a new job that fulfills(适合) you.

• I want you to take the packet in front of you. Review it. All the answers you’re looking for are inside. Start filling out（填写） the necessary information, and before you know it, you’ll be on your way to new opportunities.

• But how does it work?

• Now, Ned, I need you to go back to your desk and start putting together your things.

• But what happens now?

• Anybody who ever built an empire or changed the world sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it.

• As a favor to me, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t spread the news just yet. Panic doesn’t help anyone.

• I understand.

• Give it up for Ned.(让我们为Ned鼓掌)

• You can start the morning in Boston, stop in Dallas over lunch, and finish the day in San Francisco, all for the price of a T1 line.

• Our inflated(过高的) travel budget is eviscerated by 85%. And more importantly, to you guys on the road, no more Christmases in a hotel in Tulsa, no more hours lost to weather delays. You get to come home.