Patterns (1956)
Ed Begley: Bill Briggs
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Bill Briggs : On our level you don't get fired, you know that. After thirty years of productive work, they can't say to a man like me, "Alright, now get out!" They just can't do that. So what do they do? They create a situation. A situation you can't work in and finally that you can't live in with this tension, abuse. Small humiliations. It all starts out on a scale so subtle, so microscopic that at first you can't really believe it's happening at all. But gradually the thing begins to take shape. The pieces fit together - all the little bits. And it becomes unmistakable. They chip away at your pride, your security until you begin to have doubts, and then fears.
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Bill Briggs : [to Fred] I'm wondering if you're as good a human being as you are an industrial relations man.
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Fred Staples : I just hope Mr. Ramsey remembers hiring me.
Bill Briggs : [ominously] Mr. Ramsey rarely forgets anything.
