Happy Easter!

Wednesday 25^th March

Hi Isabel,

How’s your Easter holiday going? I hope it’s Ok.

The weather is wonderful or as Carter (from the film ‘In Good Company’) would say, “Awesome”.

Easter traditions in Spain are basically a combination of religious rites and beach holidays, but in the U.K. and the USA they are connected to chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies.

In our last class before Easter, we carried on talking about wishes and regrets and hypothesising about the past and the future.

And we went on seeing the film.

In this part of the film we see how both, Dan and Carter are struggling (fighting to adapt) in the new corporate set-up (the new organization system). We see Carter’s introductory speech, his first speech to his employees. The speech is full of ‘business bullshit’ (words that sound very well but don’t mean much!) He talks about synergy, to be psyched (in the right frame of mind; ready for something) and also to be proactive. Meanwhile the ‘rif’ (reduction in forces) start and he has to dismiss (fire, sack, make redundant etc.) or as he says ‘let them go’, because it sounds better. Dan’s life goes on in a bit more stressful way. He’s getting ready for his new paternity (more expenses with the baby) and his eldest daughter tells him she’s been accepted in NYU and she’ll move to the city (more expenses, again) and meanwhile, he has to explain that he’s been demoted so now, he’s earning less money. The whole situation brings about some arrhythmia…

We’ll continue in our next class…  

Enjoy the rest of Easter!

See you on Wednesday!