The Hudsucker Proxy

[Spoken/Shouted very quickly] You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong color voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!

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Attention all Hudsucker employees. Attention all Hudsucker employees. We regretfully announce that at thirty seconds after the hour of noon, Hudsucker time, Waring Hudsucker, Founder, President, and Chairman of the Board of Hudsucker Industries, merged with the infinite. To mark this occasion of corporate loss, we ask that all employees observe a moment of silent contemplation. [moment of silence] Thank you for your kind attention. This moment has been duly-noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your pay. That is all.

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You! Yah, you, Barnes. You don't look busy! Think you can handle a blue letter? This letter was sent down this morning by the big guy himself! 'At's right, Waring Hudsucker! It's addressed to Sid Mussburger! Hudsucker's right-hand man! It's a Blue Letter! That means you put it right in Mussburger's hand. No secretaries! No receptionists! No colleagues! No excuses! MUSSBURGER!

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No magazines. No coffee. Mussburger! I wanna see Mussburger! Or did he jump out a window too?

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[repeated line] Let's grab a highball.

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Sidney J. Mussburger: It's a pity to waste a whole Montecristo. Board Member 1: He could have opened the window. Board Member 2: Waring Hudsucker never did anything the easy way. Myron Addison: [crying] Yeah, but why? Why did he do it? Everything was going so well. Sidney J. Mussburger: What am I, a head shrinker? Maybe the man was unhappy. Myron Addison: He didn't look unhappy. Board Member 4: He didn't look rich. Board Member 5: Waring Hudsucker was never an easy man to figure out. He built this company with his bare hands, every step he took was a step up... except of course this last one. Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure, he was a swell fella. But when the president, chairman of the board, and owner of eighty-seven precent of the company stock drops... forty-four floors... Board Member 6: Forty-five! Board Member 7: Counting the mezzanine. Sidney J. Mussburger: ...then the company too has a problem. Stillson, what exactly is the disposition of Waring's stock? Stillson: Well, as you

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