Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now, we had a chance to meet this young man and, boy, that's just a straight-shooter with 'upper management' written all over him.

Bill Lumbergh: Oooo...yeahhhh, ummm...I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. Yeah, uh, he's been real flaky lately, and I'm just not sure that he's the caliber person that we would want for upper management. He's also been having some problems with his TPS reports.

Bob Porter: [To Slydell] I'll handle this. [To Lumbergh] We feel that the problem isn't with Peter.

Bob Slydell: Mmm-mmm.

Bob Porter: It's that you haven't challenged him enough, to get him motivated.

Bob Slydell: There it is.

Bill Lumbergh: Yeah, um, well, I'm just not sure about that right now.

Bob Slydell: [Pulls Peter's file aside, showing Lumbergh's file next] Yeah, Bill, let me ask you a real quick question here: How much time would you say you spend each week dealing with these TPS reports?

Bill Lumbergh: [Pause] Yeah...”

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