:30:00
Everybody from the president on down,
the whole company...
:30:03
...Ioved good, old, faithful...
:30:05
...quick-with-the-jokes-and-smiles
Jeremiah. Oh, man...
:30:09
...they integrated me
lock, stock and barrel.
:30:13
And I loved it.
:30:14
Thirty-three years...
:30:16
...with the company.
:30:18
I never missed a day.
:30:21
And then...
:30:23
...they had a big merger.
:30:24
Instead of giving me the watch
I'd been waiting for...
:30:27
...they gave old Jeremiah
the pink slip.
:30:30
"We regret to inform you...
:30:31
...that your services
will no longer be required."
:30:35
Now, I didn't see
how they could just...
:30:38
...throw a man away.
:30:40
I couldn't accept it.
:30:41
So I went to the new management...
:30:43
...and put on a show
that you wouldn't believe.
:30:46
I talked more trash...
:30:48
...showed more teeth...
:30:51
...kissed white ass...
:30:52
I begged that man...
:30:55
...for my job.
:30:57
And I got it.
:30:58
30% reduction in pay...
:31:01
...no benefits...
:31:03
...but it was a job.
:31:04
It was mine.
:31:06
Two years ago...
:31:08
...a lot of loose Japanese
money coming in...
:31:11
...hostile takeover,
some kind of stuff.
:31:13
Company got lean and mean for the
new world order of the 21 st century.
:31:19
Downsized my black ass
right out the door...
:31:23
...and then...
:31:24
...Iocked it.
:31:26
Threw away the key.
:31:29
No job...
:31:31
...no future, no nothing.
:31:33
Of course, I had to get stupid.
:31:35
I took to drinking.
:31:38
I lost my wife, cars, house...
:31:42
...children...
:31:44
...credit...
:31:46
...my good name.
:31:49
Now, all my worldly possessions and
the rest of my life is in that bag.
:31:54
As a matter of fact...
:31:56
...if something good...
:31:58
...don't happen to Jeremiah,
and soon...