Rice basket - bran basket

The Company Men is a corporate storm, or simply translated as a company person. The tragic experience of the victims of the financial turmoil. A senior white-collar worker with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, a noble residence in the suburbs, driving a Porsche sports car, a golf club member, a beautiful wife and children, and a complacent middle-class life, immediately disappeared after a two-minute layoff talk. Cruel indeed. Although there are three months of severance pay with full salary, plus a few months of useless so-called "employment guidance", it won't immediately end up on the street, but as the old saying goes: "It's easy for a bran to jump into a rice basket, and a rice basket to jump into a Kangluo is easy. It’s hard”, looking for a job everywhere, bumping into obstacles everywhere, hope again and again turning into disappointment, lowering the standard of salary again and again, selling the car and selling the house, unable to pay off the credit card debt, moving home with the parents and being kicked out by the club, the standard of living drops again and again Destroyed... Desperately, he had to "reduce your dignity" and rely on his brother-in-law who was doing building renovations (Kevin Costner is already so old!) to earn a bite to eat. Ben Affleck is well-suited for the role, with a heart-wrenching look of desperation in his eyes as he yells at his wife, "I have to look successful." Fortunately, he has a considerate wife, sensible children, a daozizui tofu-hearted wife and brother-in-law, and the support of his family helped him endure the hardest days. Phil, his former boss who was fired later than him, was not so lucky. From the moment he was fired, I foresaw that he was bound to take the path of suicide. GTX is a microcosm of the financial turmoil in the United States in the past two years. Thousands of employees have been laid off, long-term unemployed, and their families are in financial difficulties. There are not a few people who choose to end their lives like old Phil, and CEOs rely on manipulation. Stocks of companies still make a lot of money, if not more. This is a group of thieves who are well-dressed and well-spoken. They have stolen other people's lives. What they have plundered is the salaries of employees saved after large-scale layoffs. They are old employees who have worked for the company for more than ten or twenty years or even their entire lives to support their families. Hard-earned money. Bubble economy, subprime mortgage crisis, these terms are illusory to non-professionals like me, but the pain of unemployment is real. A very sad story, even if the ending is a little brighter.

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