I love Robin Williams! this little girl just cried hard last night after seeing one hour photo again )= but we know he passed hes in heaven with God and the angels watching down on us.
This is a great scene because Sy’s termination is justified from a managerial point of view, yet as a viewer, we don’t want him fired. Peering into his private life, along with seeing his passionate, quality work, we become sympathetic and biased into rooting for him. Life is complex.
Actually, I wanted him fired. Seriously. He was creepy. And enabled by the job he did. It was all he had, but it wasn’t going to lead anywhere. His actions at the end of a movie were a prime reason he shouldn’t have been employed there.
I think a majority of Sy’s pain when he’s let go comes from the fact that he’s a master of his own world in the photo area.its the one place he could take refuge from his personal demons. When bill cut that out, it crushed his soul.
@@6reen6rud6e2 well Sy was taking money out of the company's pockets by creating all those prints for himself and giving away free merchandise. Bill on the other hand was obnoxious, but still he acted professional and did his job.
@Tim Kabatra I don't know much about how click counters work, but he wasn't meticulous enough to cover up his thieving of prints he printed for himself.
Too strict in my opinion.To fire a good worker only for hundreds of pictures stolen ?How much money did the store lose?100$?It was enough to refund the money to the company and give a fine to Sy.If these are the rules of work in U.S.A. they are exagerated.
I am getting this movie very, very soon. I'm kinda like getting one movie of various actors....and I got "The World's Greatest Dad", this "One Hour Photo" movie looks wonderful.
Yes, Sy's reaction to being fired was acting in this case. Acting is really easy to do if you just put your mind to it. And, put your imagination to work. And, Robbin Williams was a very talented actor. And, he will be missed. I can promise you that. HOWEVER, there is that BIG however, don't be fooled by Robbin Williams acting of Sy's reaction to being fired. That reaction is VERY real. And, I do mean VERY REAL. That is indeed a real reaction. And, in fact, some reactions to being fired are worse than Sy's. Firing someone is a VERY dangerous and delicate procedure. And, especially now days. Firing someone is just a delicate and dangerous situation. You fire someone, you are putting yourself in a very dangerous situation. And, particularly these days. I have heard stories about people pulling the fire alarm and all the way up to extreme problems where people shooting the place up. Fortunately however, I don't really hear stories like that but I do hear a lot about people pulling the fire alarm, creating a scene, cussing, and stuff like that. Firing someone??? It looks pretty simple but when you get down to it and you factor in all of the variables and you factor in the risks, it's not really a simple procedure. That is why I always like to send the employee an email telling him that he's fired. That is what my adoptive sisters did.
The funny thing is that's actually not true, as in the beginning of the film Sy (albeit accidentally) cuts through a customer's film, and he tells his colleague to give the customer a free roll of film if they have a problem with it.
@@Dreamaphobic that’s splicing a negative which is not messing up the actual print because the print is already done. Before digital age and scanning if you wanted another photograph printed you would need that negative to reprint it. So Sy is right that he’s never “fucked up” a print. Being a former photo tech in the last days before digital completely took over I spliced negatives all the time it’s very tedious and can happen to anyone
At one of my previous jobs I came into work and was asked why I was working. Apparently someone forgot to call me and tell me I'm fired. They said I could work the rest of my shift and then leave. I said fuck that and left
@@adambriceland6588 I think he was talking about Sy. As we can see Sy doesn't really indulge himself much in life, which was why he could afford his flat.
@@RoosterMontgomery yeah that could be possible, but I don't think Sy would be that meticulous to do so. Then again I'm sure that Bill wasn't always Sy's manager.
@@rogergarrison4271 exactly what I was thinking, managers have so much on their hands. A lot of discrepancies with workers go unnoticed until it becomes a habit and more noticeable.
This is a turning point in the film. His firing, then discovering Will Yorkin's affair, drives Sy's mental angst further. I agree those are legitimate reasons for firing Sy but I still feel sorry for him in this scene. His job was all he had.
@@618shi this is the best part of acting Williams ever did. The way he starts off acting professional in his own little world, then seemingly becomes extremely child like In his body posture. He's sitting like a scared child which he's always been following the abuse. Then the sudden explosion of rage repressed for 30 years just for a second when he curses. The violent ending is set in motion here
Powerful scene but I was always kind of surprised that Bill let Sy continue to work for the rest of the week after everything. Many companies bring in security and make employees leave right away to cut down on the risk of a messy scene.
My dad retired from the electric company after 35 years. There were major lay offs over a 10 year span that my dad was lucky to get through. He watched 1 by 1 all the guys get laid off that he worked with starting in the 70s. Most lay offs came before the Christmas season, many employees lost it and made threats to come back and shoot up the place or fight the big bosses. The company hired min wage security guards to escort laid off employees to thier vehicles then follow them off the property. At one point employees in the blue collar department's weren't allowed to clean out their lockers, collect their personal tools so the security guard would do it. My dad would say "I'd be damned if they don't let me get my own belongings" very stressful and potentially dangerous.
I worked for a clinic years ago. I WILLINGLY made a resignation. The boss took this and told everybody in the department. I didn’t really know the man. So I reported it to Human Resources. Fast forward, my final day, I go home and realize I forgot my paycheck. I call the head of the clinic who I knew personally. She literally says “please don’t come back here, we will mail it to you”. I called the department and another employee snuck it out of the managers office. I later tried to get to the bottom of it and found the boss who was talking wanted to get his friend my job. When I called him on it; he told the heads of the department I was a threat, with no proof. The clinical leader knew that. Within 3 months, he was fired, the woman who tried to withhold my pay stepped away and my record was cleared by the sites main human resource department. Guess my point here is some bosses get so power hungry they don’t realize the problems their actions will cause. Some take protecting themselves to the extreme. Even if it’s against company policy.
I thought that the manager was trying to cover his behind since he should have caught those missing prints earlier. He didn’t want to cause an additional scene by having Sy escorted out of the building, either.
As someone who worked in a photo lab in the late 90's I could tell you that the discrepancies could have been easily explained away. I remember in the lab that I worked in the roller that ejected the finished photo from the machine would often break and cut or tear the photos. Sometimes the machine would eject the photos while they were still wet and smudge the photos. And sometimes custometrs would demand that their photos be reprinted because they were too light or too dark. Great film though.
Completely agree with you there! Plus if you think about it they probably had at least a couple hundred people a year bringing in rolls of film so they were probably printing thousands if not tens of thousands of images in a year and the fact that those images were mentioned to be hundreds over a nine-year period It would be a fraction of a percentage. What's even more unbelievable is how they managed to get the police involved and a warrant to search his apartment for some photos taken of the guy's daughter in a public space with no violent threat exchanged
Bill simply wanted to get rid of Sy. He could have written sy up for the lunch breaks, or even his part in the argument with Larry. He could have taken the cost of the camera out of sy’s pay and warned him not to do that again. Instead he went to district and got permission to fire him. To me his decision was motivated by a personal dislike if sy as much as it was him covering his own ass. The longer he talked to sy, the less professional and more vicious he got. .
True, prints can get damaged. If the numbers were off by just a little bit Bill probably wouldn’t have thought anything of it, but there were hundreds of prints that were unaccounted for. The likelihood of this being a coincidence was pretty much nonexistent.
mimosa27 Williams acting at 0.55 is phenomenal 'what he say...?' The from one line of dialogue realize how petrified he is of losing his job and knowing his guilt. Then afterwards he becomes exasperated and desperate in his pleas for help or to be 'let off.' Then again when he says 'well I don't know anything about it.' He reverts to being childlike, and finally the rage inside of him bottled up since childhood no friends abused never a girlfriend a virgin explodes because he's been pushed too far the first time in his life. Astoundingly good film
Robin Williams was brilliant in this-played Sy as frightening, likeable, disturbed and unhinged and ultimately tragic. Brilliantly made by Mark Romanek who directed the Great Johnny Cash video “Hurt”
It’s funny that the log discrepancies when it had been going on for 10 years plus were just found when Bill had already several reasons to terminate him ( spaces out on the job, 90 minute lunch breaks, created scenes in front of customers) Bill was digging for more dirt Cy to ultimately fire him
Well there's no evidence that Bill was Sy's manager for 10 years. If he was then he would have fired him within 5 months after noticing what was going on.
@The Law inept, I think the other managers before then were inept for not catching Sy out of this discrepancies. Managers do have the responsibility and jurisdiction to fire somebody, but they also have to do it according to the termination policy. If you were a manager you would understand.
@The Law and no proof that Bill was Sy's manager for 10 years, which I personally believe he wasn't because there's no way he would tolerate Sy for that long.
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I made some mistakes which were cleared through corporate but when I had car troubles and was late a few times(but within my limit according to company policy) I was fired and on the discharge papers those previous mistakes were listed.
Sy had no family, not many friends, and lived an isolated life which made him lonely. The only things he had going for him, and kept his already unstable mental state together was his job, and the family he was obsessed with who were his regular customers he got to know through the family pictures he had developed for over the years. His job distracted him from his empty life, and was the only thing he had close to a social life, and it kept him close to the family he was obsessed with, and wanted to be a part of. But after losing his job, and finding out that the family he thought was perfect wasn’t so perfect, due to the husband having an affair, he had nothing holding what little sanity he had left together. As soon as the manager told him he was letting him go, you can see it in Sy’s face expression and reaction that his world was starting to collapse, and when he found out about the husbands affair after, what remained in his already destroyed world was gone, which meant he had nothing left to lose, and nothing left to hold his sanity together. And that’s when he takes things to a more extreme level. This movie is actually pretty deep, a brilliant psychological thriller, and Robin Williams was fantastic, along with all of the other actors and actresses in this film.
People like to point out that the log discrepancies, being the main motivator behind his termination, being several years apart. As someone in the digital printing racket, I'd like to tell you that this scene is very realistic of both parties. My boss has absolutely no idea how our equipment works (though he loves to act like he does.) In this scene, where Sy informs his boss why he is dressed the way he is, and Sy tells him, that's a clear indication that his boss is similar in regards to the equipment. Sy needs all that garb on since he is handling dangerous chemicals. You'd think your boss would know that, but they hardly ever do in a place that does far more than photo finishing. There are also other factors, such as his current manager not being there for as long as we might think. Perhaps he's new, perhaps he's not experienced in that branch enough. Perhaps not. But I do know managers tend to not pay as much attention to these details that often, because there's normally other people that do that. But again, if they don't know how the equipment works, they are easy to fool. Because scenarios such as dirty equipment rise all the time in industrial printers that affects the quality of the print. If Sy is as obsessive about quality as we are led to believe, then the superiors likely focused more on that than the sales numbers. Listening to my boss explain to visitors from other companies how my printing presses work, entirely incorrectly, is a laughable thing for me to witness a lot. If I had to guess the logic behind this, the manager probably looked at the history of Sy's work and the sales (you'll see he has numerous clipboards on his desk) and came to the conclusion that it was more than just quality assurance. Sy's "SRS" is the equivalent to what is a developer change for me and my equipment. I have to wear the same garb because of all the magnetic and particle dust I have to dispose of. I don't think this was a personal thing for Sy's boss, I think it was just him finally catching onto a pattern.
Robin Williams had this effect of making any character he played seem vulnerable and innocent. In at his most violent his character appears as an innocent battered little man lashing out at the world that had marginalized him. Such an amazing actor and a wonderful human being RIP Robin Williams
I miss him so much. He touched a lot of people with his humor. You can see his actual pain coming out in this movie. Something happened to him as a kid cause it's very similar
I love this movie, but I've never understood one thing. His boss knows he's been stealing prints, giving away free cameras, taking long lunch breaks...and he tells him TO FINISH OUT THE WEEK?? Like, ok....go ahead and steal some more, but after the week is over you're outta here! 😂
One of Robins greatest and most underrated roles. The best comedic actors often have the biggest demons and I think we saw a glimpse of that in Sys role with this film.
I really enjoyed that movie didn’t see it for the first time till 2023, but it was a 🦉 why do I feel like he was actually like that in real life felt that way😢😢
Either two reasons: One Sy WAS NOT working at will, meaning the company had to give him a notice of his pending termination or this was sort of a win-win. Sys' position was crucial to the stores photo department so they figure, let him finish out the week and get one last full paycheck while we have a few days to find a suitable replacement, since Bill said he talked to District. Of course, I know that ultimately, it is just a movie lol
Or it’s possible Bill was like “you know what it’s almost time for pay day and might as well let him finish out the week til payday so he has at least some more money til he gets a new job”
Personally, I would have just walked out.I mean I would not have given them the extra pleasure of taking advantage of me by letting me finish out the week.
I read this scene differently than everyone else. I think management has been aware of the extra prints and free gifts for years, and they let it slide because Sye's a good employee and they feel empathy for his sad life. And they had to fire him here because his behavior has become so inappropriate.
I think Sy has been getting away with it because the managers have been working there short term until Bill filled in the manager role and caught Sy out.
Dam😢he was soo lonely sad and depressed, and he lived thru other peoples photos.I always wonder what happened to him in real life. I knew he was depressed, and that'll *definitely take you out*
The hostility in Bill when he told Sy that he better not fuck up the photos during his final days on the job was enough to suggest that Bill didn’t care for him, and didn’t want him there.
"I haven't fucked up a customer's prints in 11 years." He may be a little disturbed but he's good at his job, and he actually likes it. How often do you find that in retail?
That look on Sly's face when he was told to he had to be let go his world went to shit and this man lived an isolated life and really didn't exist and he was just dead inside and you feel sorry for this man b/c he hated his own family and he liked the Yorkin's so much and then the fact that the husband had an affair and Sly found out about it and goes after Mr. Yorkin because he betrayed his child and wife. Probbaly that's what happened within his own family his mother had an affair left him and he was forced to deal with his sick pedo father that took pictures of him naked and degraded him. You never know with people and what goes on behind closed doors. Sly really had nothing to gain and nothing to loose. He just wanted a family and to be loved. The whole movie was errie and Sly is one scary man. This is what loneliness does to people its the loneliness that is the killer.
This is what makes a real and truly scary horror movie, in my opinion. This is real life. There are many people living in Sly’s position, especially with social media nowadays. People are dead inside for whatever reason and hate their lives, so they live through influencer’s lives. This is especially true with Twitch nowadays. At what point does it stop being entertainment and become an escape from your own reality? Is it both? Loneliness is the true killer in soxiety
When Sy is fired from Savmart, his boss Bill allows him to finish the rest of his work week. In real life, terminated employees are generally handed their last paycheck, asked to sign a couple of documents, and are escorted from the premises. Especially since Sy was fired for what appeared to be behavioral issues, he never would be allowed to continue working.
I had the same offer to finish the rest of the week with the first job I was dismissed from, but I decided to not come into work the next day because I was so distraught and angry. The second job I was basically escorted by my manager to the door where I handed him my work badge and just left. I guess it's always a delicate task firing someone without them going berserk and having to call security.
I wonder if those documents that they sign are that they promise to not seek unemployment benefits, nor sue the company. Since most terminated employees are caught off guard, and are typically emotionally distraught, they don't know what the hell they're signing.
Yes, I believe that Sy should have been fired for everything that he had done. The discrepancies on the photo finishing machine and the free camera. However, the scenes he created are another story. Here's why. A fight at the workplace doesn't always warrant termination. Yes, here Sy was at fault. Here's how I know. Earlier in the movie, Sy was in the lunch room and Bill Owens walked in right? Well, as Bill Owens was reconstructing the scene with the Agfa film machine tech guy, he described that there were OTHER scenes before that. His clue words were, "Sy, let me explain something to you one more time. These aren't your customers. They're SavMart's customers." Note the ONE MORE TIME? Bill Owens would only have said that only if Sy had created a scene prior the scene with the tech guy. So. That can only mean one thing. There were other scenes as well. If I had an employee who had a scene with just one person, and especially if that was the only problem and he was a model employee, I would be having a chit chat with the tech guy for example. This is especially true when there was a bank of employees who the tech guy had scenes with. However, if the employee was having scenes with a bunch of people on the other hand, I would be talking to the employee. Especially if there was a bank of people who the employee had scenes with. However, here in this entire movie in general, not just this scene of Sy's termination of Sy's employment, the movie One Hour Photo in general, Sy was creating scenes a bank of people. And, so yes. Sy needed to be canned. However, I seriously doubt that Bill Owens knew anything about the hotel room incident. The only way he would know about that is if it happened prior to Sy's employment termination. However, the hotel room incident happened after the termination. However, I do still believe that Bill Owens had to have suspected something with Sy. The family of Yorkins were programmed into the machine. So, the machine would most likely have indicated that the log discrepancies were only with the Yorkins family photos and nothing else. And, Sy scribbled out the 3 copies and put back the original 2. Every time that Nina requested 2 copies, Sy wrote 3. And, then later scribbled out the three and replaced it with the original 2 that Nina ordered. This would have been happening repeatedly and become a habit that I myself would have investigated. Bill Owens would have seen the scribbled out 3. And, Yoshi had to have seen this as well and Yoshi had to have at least suspected something was amiss and said something to Bill Owens. Bill Owens most certainly suspected something. No doubt about that.
I love this movie. Funny how masterpieces take time to appreciate. But also not. It’s bc they’re SO GOOD, it takes our measly human brains a while to acknowledge. Amen✝️
This really shows Robin athis other depressed self- The self that we never saw in any other movie what an actor!! I wonder how long his depression went on for? this movie really shows the suffering he was going through in reality! Like most people probably bi polar-like myself and millions more especially those of us in the world of showbiz... people like us are very colorful and never boring
After learning how depressed Robin Williams was, it's difficult for me to watch anything with him in it. Saddening. Absolutely saddening. RIP Robin Williams.
Hello Sy, what's happening? Ah.. we have sort of a problem here... Apparently there's hundreds or prints unaccounted for. If you could just go ahead and return those ASAP, that'd be great! Mmmkay?
Nice role for Williams. He was hitting his stride with dramatic roles by this time in his career. He makes Cy sinister yet he also makes him sympathetic in equal measure.
Sy can pretend he hasn't been stealing photo, BUT he still has to come up with a cover-up for how, being the store's only photo technician for 11 years, he never noticed or brought up these discrepancies on his logs
He’s printing more than what the till is saying. So either he’s stealing from the company or he can’t do simple math; Bill implying he’s doing the former.
There an interesting characterization here. Notice how Bill looks sympathetic & disappointed in firing him, but then quickly throws in the unprovoked petty things. Many GMs like him are trained to show empathy, not be stoic, keep tissues close by, when terminating someone. But he wanted to make it personal, he wanted Sy gone for a while. That’s why he hints that he should take vacation time; polite way of saying “let me interview your replacement while you’re gone.”
Actually in most jobs. Stealing from the company. Would warrant investigation by security. And arrest by the police. He would've been detained in his office. And lead out in handcuffs.
Would depend on company policy and culture. If they were super strict about no free merchandise, they absolutely could do that. However, some companies give their employees the discretion to give something free or give some sort of discount in certain situations like a disgruntled or inconvenienced customer, like if someone had to wait way too long or a product was defective or their photos came out lousy. Once you do that, it becomes harder to prosecute criminally for giving away something as small as a disposable camera for a birthday. If you give your employees any discretion to give away free things in any circumstances, cops are probably going to shrug and say, “This is a civil case.” Unless of course the cost of what you were giving away was far beyond reasonable.
He may have got fired for handing out free camera on their birthday that’s violating company policy. Anything wrong doing you do will show on radar even when boss isn’t with you.
Sy! What’s happenin’? I’m going to have to terminate your employment here at SaveMart, sooo if you could go ahead and clear out your locker for me by the end of the week, that’d be greeat. M’kay? Thanks a bunch Sy!
Wow, who would've thought that the comment section for a clip from an underrated Robin Williams movie would be used for people to tell their own stories of being fired? I hope it brought some solace to all who have lost their job whether it be rightfully or not. I got laid off once and let me just say, it sucks.
Robin Williams and Gary Cole are both known for their comedic roles, but they do drama damn good
I love Robin Williams! this little girl just cried hard last night after seeing one hour photo again )= but we know he passed hes in heaven with God and the angels watching down on us.
Cole was great playing Russell Williams even if it was a Lifetime TV movie. “An Officer and a Murderer”.
Something about Gary Cole has ALWAYS pissed me off no matter what role he’s playing. I just can’t like the guy.
This is a great scene because Sy’s termination is justified from a managerial point of view, yet as a viewer, we don’t want him fired.
Peering into his private life, along with seeing his passionate, quality work, we become sympathetic and biased into rooting for him. Life is complex.
"I'm fired but you expect me to keep working til the end of the week?"
It’s not that complex dude.
@@FSU2001 movies are literally made to be picked apart and analyzed it most certainly is that deep lmao what ??
@@FSU2001 oh you went to fsu I see where the disconnect lies sorry about that LMAO🫡
Actually, I wanted him fired. Seriously. He was creepy. And enabled by the job he did. It was all he had, but it wasn’t going to lead anywhere.
His actions at the end of a movie were a prime reason he shouldn’t have been employed there.
I think a majority of Sy’s pain when he’s let go comes from the fact that he’s a master of his own world in the photo area.its the one place he could take refuge from his personal demons. When bill cut that out, it crushed his soul.
yes, good point. he also did it well. probably the only area of his life where he was the best.
the funny thing is today you voluntarily gave your photos to social media for everyone to see
I utterly love Gary Cole’s acting in this scene.
He's good. Also in A Simple Plan.
RIP Robin Williams. This scene just goes to show you how he was one of the greatest actors of all time.
Lumbergh: "Yeaaahh Sy... I'm gonna have to let you go... also if you could clean out your locker that would be great..."
Okay, but I could burn down the drugstore.
Lumbergh: "And if you do something stupid like fuck up somebody's prints..."
LOL
Lumbergh is always a douchebag!
(But Gary Cole a.k.a. "Birdman" is cool!)
Um yeah if you could not fuck up a customers prints that will be great
His character here is even named Bill. Dang.
Quite justified reasons to fire Sy, but kind of sad for him because he liked his job and was well committed.
That doesnt excuse him for his actions to the company.
@@6reen6rud6e2 well Sy was taking money out of the company's pockets by creating all those prints for himself and giving away free merchandise. Bill on the other hand was obnoxious, but still he acted professional and did his job.
@Tim Kabatra I don't know much about how click counters work, but he wasn't meticulous enough to cover up his thieving of prints he printed for himself.
Too strict in my opinion.To fire a good worker only for hundreds of pictures stolen ?How much money did the store lose?100$?It was enough to refund the money to the company and give a fine to Sy.If these are the rules of work in U.S.A. they are exagerated.
@Tim Kabatra in Italy the problem is the contrary.It's very difficult to fire also lazy people.
Very well done scene where you can relate to all perspectives. Nobody appears like a complete villian. It's just two realistic human beings.
Dear Robin....we love you. RIP.
*💖🌸💖🌸💖*
Barry richman yes
He was a master of his craft.
Sy's reaction is so genuine. what great acting
Seeing it the first few times and I have empathy for Sy
I am getting this movie very, very soon. I'm kinda like getting one movie of various actors....and I got "The World's Greatest Dad", this "One Hour Photo" movie looks wonderful.
@@jondeare World's Greatest Dad was an odd movie but a good one, right? Just like this one.
Yes, Sy's reaction to being fired was acting in this case. Acting is really easy to do if you just put your mind to it. And, put your imagination to work. And, Robbin Williams was a very talented actor. And, he will be missed. I can promise you that.
HOWEVER, there is that BIG however, don't be fooled by Robbin Williams acting of Sy's reaction to being fired. That reaction is VERY real. And, I do mean VERY REAL. That is indeed a real reaction. And, in fact, some reactions to being fired are worse than Sy's. Firing someone is a VERY dangerous and delicate procedure. And, especially now days. Firing someone is just a delicate and dangerous situation. You fire someone, you are putting yourself in a very dangerous situation. And, particularly these days. I have heard stories about people pulling the fire alarm and all the way up to extreme problems where people shooting the place up. Fortunately however, I don't really hear stories like that but I do hear a lot about people pulling the fire alarm, creating a scene, cussing, and stuff like that. Firing someone??? It looks pretty simple but when you get down to it and you factor in all of the variables and you factor in the risks, it's not really a simple procedure. That is why I always like to send the employee an email telling him that he's fired. That is what my adoptive sisters did.
“I HAVEN’T FUCKED UP A CUSTOMER PRINTS IN 11 YEARS!”
Just get back out there.
The funny thing is that's actually not true, as in the beginning of the film Sy (albeit accidentally) cuts through a customer's film, and he tells his colleague to give the customer a free roll of film if they have a problem with it.
@@DreamaphobicI was thinking that too 😂
@@Dreamaphobic that’s splicing a negative which is not messing up the actual print because the print is already done. Before digital age and scanning if you wanted another photograph printed you would need that negative to reprint it. So Sy is right that he’s never “fucked up” a print. Being a former photo tech in the last days before digital completely took over I spliced negatives all the time it’s very tedious and can happen to anyone
I love how his name is Bill just like... Lundberg.
Chuck Alexander .... hmmmm yeah . Bill should be working on his TPS reports!
Sy, Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to not come back to work MMMKay? Yeah, If you could just go ahead and do that, that'd be great. Thanks!
This is where Lumbergh ended up after Initech went up in flames. He changed careers.
Fire someone, then demand they finish their work week?
It happened to me... even if i was young, i was so stupid to stay until the end !
At one of my previous jobs I came into work and was asked why I was working. Apparently someone forgot to call me and tell me I'm fired. They said I could work the rest of my shift and then leave. I said fuck that and left
@@NorthernWindNut he was a manager...they make more money
@@adambriceland6588 I think he was talking about Sy. As we can see Sy doesn't really indulge himself much in life, which was why he could afford his flat.
@J K well yeah. Like mountains and cacti in Illinois.
Bill's boss should fire him too for letting this going on for nine years.
Well it might be possible that Bill wasn't always Sy's manager, he was probably Sy's manager for a year or six months.
I guess Sy should've tampered with the print counter, planned ahead knowing this day might come.
@@RoosterMontgomery yeah that could be possible, but I don't think Sy would be that meticulous to do so. Then again I'm sure that Bill wasn't always Sy's manager.
If your store manager you got a shitload of depts to manage, you probably dont noice till the problem gets that big
@@rogergarrison4271 exactly what I was thinking, managers have so much on their hands. A lot of discrepancies with workers go unnoticed until it becomes a habit and more noticeable.
This is a turning point in the film. His firing, then discovering Will Yorkin's affair, drives Sy's mental angst further.
I agree those are legitimate reasons for firing Sy but I still feel sorry for him in this scene. His job was all he had.
Especially at 1:35 when Bill said "look sy I got a family". I was like uh o
@@618shi this is the best part of acting Williams ever did. The way he starts off acting professional in his own little world, then seemingly becomes extremely child like In his body posture. He's sitting like a scared child which he's always been following the abuse. Then the sudden explosion of rage repressed for 30 years just for a second when he curses. The violent ending is set in motion here
@@618shi yeah but when he said ‘I have a family’ this was mocking Sy.
@@steliosartemiou6627 how was that mocking Sy? He was trying to be reasonable and explain why he couldn't risk his job.
Watching this movie is even darker now knowing poor Robins ultimate fate
Robin Williams killed himself because of the Lew body dementia .. yeah he suffered depression but that was years before this movie etc
@@radi2986 Even if he was healthy during filming, its still sadder watching it now
1:19 - "They're all up on a wall in my apartment, Bill."
Bill stares at Sy in complete silence and completely baffled.
It's kinda rubbing salt in the wound when he says to Sy "I've got a family".
He wasnt crying bc he lost his job but bc he just lost his only family. When the perfect picture he set up had been shattered he then became dangerous
@@actuary33was the family considered his favorite person?
@@GR1NDMOD22 think so. Sy bill sy bill sy bill. Shows their dislike for each other.
@@actuary33 so he was just splitting on them?
@@GR1NDMOD22 they didn't know how important they were to him.
Powerful scene but I was always kind of surprised that Bill let Sy continue to work for the rest of the week after everything. Many companies bring in security and make employees leave right away to cut down on the risk of a messy scene.
My dad retired from the electric company after 35 years. There were major lay offs over a 10 year span that my dad was lucky to get through. He watched 1 by 1 all the guys get laid off that he worked with starting in the 70s. Most lay offs came before the Christmas season, many employees lost it and made threats to come back and shoot up the place or fight the big bosses. The company hired min wage security guards to escort laid off employees to thier vehicles then follow them off the property. At one point employees in the blue collar department's weren't allowed to clean out their lockers, collect their personal tools so the security guard would do it. My dad would say "I'd be damned if they don't let me get my own belongings" very stressful and potentially dangerous.
It could have been sort of a courtesy for his many years of dedicated service. In situations like this, termination would usually be immediate.
I worked for a clinic years ago. I WILLINGLY made a resignation. The boss took this and told everybody in the department. I didn’t really know the man. So I reported it to Human Resources.
Fast forward, my final day, I go home and realize I forgot my paycheck. I call the head of the clinic who I knew personally. She literally says “please don’t come back here, we will mail it to you”. I called the department and another employee snuck it out of the managers office.
I later tried to get to the bottom of it and found the boss who was talking wanted to get his friend my job. When I called him on it; he told the heads of the department I was a threat, with no proof. The clinical leader knew that.
Within 3 months, he was fired, the woman who tried to withhold my pay stepped away and my record was cleared by the sites main human resource department.
Guess my point here is some bosses get so power hungry they don’t realize the problems their actions will cause. Some take protecting themselves to the extreme. Even if it’s against company policy.
I thought that the manager was trying to cover his behind since he should have caught those missing prints earlier. He didn’t want to cause an additional scene by having Sy escorted out of the building, either.
I just realized this movie turns 20 years old next year. I now officially feel old!!
As someone who worked in a photo lab in the late 90's I could tell you that the discrepancies could have been easily explained away. I remember in the lab that I worked in the roller that ejected the finished photo from the machine would often break and cut or tear the photos. Sometimes the machine would eject the photos while they were still wet and smudge the photos. And sometimes custometrs would demand that their photos be reprinted because they were too light or too dark. Great film though.
Bill would've found out from Larry if the machine was faulty in any way. So that excuse or explanation may not have worked for Sy either 😕
Completely agree with you there! Plus if you think about it they probably had at least a couple hundred people a year bringing in rolls of film so they were probably printing thousands if not tens of thousands of images in a year and the fact that those images were mentioned to be hundreds over a nine-year period It would be a fraction of a percentage. What's even more unbelievable is how they managed to get the police involved and a warrant to search his apartment for some photos taken of the guy's daughter in a public space with no violent threat exchanged
Bill simply wanted to get rid of Sy. He could have written sy up for the lunch breaks, or even his part in the argument with Larry. He could have taken the cost of the camera out of sy’s pay and warned him not to do that again. Instead he went to district and got permission to fire him. To me his decision was motivated by a personal dislike if sy as much as it was him covering his own ass. The longer he talked to sy, the less professional and more vicious he got.
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True, prints can get damaged. If the numbers were off by just a little bit Bill probably wouldn’t have thought anything of it, but there were hundreds of prints that were unaccounted for. The likelihood of this being a coincidence was pretty much nonexistent.
This scene is so intense and yet for the most part they talking about one of the most mundane things in the world, photo printing.
I love the actor who is playing the boss. He's always great at these corporate roles. Anyone else?
Gary Cole, he has great comic timing too.
mimosa27 Williams acting at 0.55 is phenomenal 'what he say...?' The from one line of dialogue realize how petrified he is of losing his job and knowing his guilt. Then afterwards he becomes exasperated and desperate in his pleas for help or to be 'let off.' Then again when he says 'well I don't know anything about it.' He reverts to being childlike, and finally the rage inside of him bottled up since childhood no friends abused never a girlfriend a virgin explodes because he's been pushed too far the first time in his life. Astoundingly good film
Lumburgh's a beast.
MMMM Kaaayy! LOL his role in Office Space
Yes he made a lot of comedy and villian roles as well. He is a good Supporting Actor in every movie he appears
Outrageously overlooked movie.
‘You’re fired! Now get back to work until the end of the week!’
That was a little strange.
“Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is a man!” 😉
They got the perfect actor to deliver those lines and still have the audience buy it
Anyone else notice the incredible yet subtle foreshadowing by showing the photos of Bill’s daughter at the beginning of this scene?
Good scene from IMO one of Robin's best films. Sy's job was his LIFE and identity. When he lost his job, his world collapsed.
Robin Williams was brilliant in this-played Sy as frightening, likeable, disturbed and unhinged and ultimately tragic. Brilliantly made by Mark Romanek who directed the Great Johnny Cash video “Hurt”
@MattDaugherty-dv3qm No he was not! Stop talking nonsense!
It’s funny that the log discrepancies when it had been going on for 10 years plus were just found when Bill had already several reasons to terminate him ( spaces out on the job, 90 minute lunch breaks, created scenes in front of customers) Bill was digging for more dirt Cy to ultimately fire him
He should have followed him to a hotel and took compromising photos of him at knifepoint.
Well there's no evidence that Bill was Sy's manager for 10 years. If he was then he would have fired him within 5 months after noticing what was going on.
@The Law inept, I think the other managers before then were inept for not catching Sy out of this discrepancies. Managers do have the responsibility and jurisdiction to fire somebody, but they also have to do it according to the termination policy. If you were a manager you would understand.
@The Law and no proof that Bill was Sy's manager for 10 years, which I personally believe he wasn't because there's no way he would tolerate Sy for that long.
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I made some mistakes which were cleared through corporate but when I had car troubles and was late a few times(but within my limit according to company policy) I was fired and on the discharge papers those previous mistakes were listed.
That's some great acting.
Such an underrated movie
This movie makes me very sad
Imagine how many people like this are out there :(
me to
likewise!!
Sy had no family, not many friends, and lived an isolated life which made him lonely. The only things he had going for him, and kept his already unstable mental state together was his job, and the family he was obsessed with who were his regular customers he got to know through the family pictures he had developed for over the years. His job distracted him from his empty life, and was the only thing he had close to a social life, and it kept him close to the family he was obsessed with, and wanted to be a part of. But after losing his job, and finding out that the family he thought was perfect wasn’t so perfect, due to the husband having an affair, he had nothing holding what little sanity he had left together. As soon as the manager told him he was letting him go, you can see it in Sy’s face expression and reaction that his world was starting to collapse, and when he found out about the husbands affair after, what remained in his already destroyed world was gone, which meant he had nothing left to lose, and nothing left to hold his sanity together. And that’s when he takes things to a more extreme level. This movie is actually pretty deep, a brilliant psychological thriller, and Robin Williams was fantastic, along with all of the other actors and actresses in this film.
He's also been having trouble with his TPS reports.
goddam Lumbergh
People like to point out that the log discrepancies, being the main motivator behind his termination, being several years apart. As someone in the digital printing racket, I'd like to tell you that this scene is very realistic of both parties. My boss has absolutely no idea how our equipment works (though he loves to act like he does.) In this scene, where Sy informs his boss why he is dressed the way he is, and Sy tells him, that's a clear indication that his boss is similar in regards to the equipment. Sy needs all that garb on since he is handling dangerous chemicals. You'd think your boss would know that, but they hardly ever do in a place that does far more than photo finishing.
There are also other factors, such as his current manager not being there for as long as we might think. Perhaps he's new, perhaps he's not experienced in that branch enough. Perhaps not. But I do know managers tend to not pay as much attention to these details that often, because there's normally other people that do that. But again, if they don't know how the equipment works, they are easy to fool. Because scenarios such as dirty equipment rise all the time in industrial printers that affects the quality of the print. If Sy is as obsessive about quality as we are led to believe, then the superiors likely focused more on that than the sales numbers. Listening to my boss explain to visitors from other companies how my printing presses work, entirely incorrectly, is a laughable thing for me to witness a lot.
If I had to guess the logic behind this, the manager probably looked at the history of Sy's work and the sales (you'll see he has numerous clipboards on his desk) and came to the conclusion that it was more than just quality assurance. Sy's "SRS" is the equivalent to what is a developer change for me and my equipment. I have to wear the same garb because of all the magnetic and particle dust I have to dispose of. I don't think this was a personal thing for Sy's boss, I think it was just him finally catching onto a pattern.
Robin Williams had this effect of making any character he played seem vulnerable and innocent. In at his most violent his character appears as an innocent battered little man lashing out at the world that had marginalized him. Such an amazing actor and a wonderful human being
RIP Robin Williams
I miss him so much. He touched a lot of people with his humor. You can see his actual pain coming out in this movie. Something happened to him as a kid cause it's very similar
I think it’s really sad and overlooked that Bill says he can’t afford to lose his job because he has a family, all Sy wanted, and then fires Sy.
C'mon Lumberg, you always fire on a Friday and you certainly never have them finish out the week. Even the Bob's knew that.
"FREE disposal cameras to customers on their birthday!?"
If you could tell me what happened to those prints, that would be great
I love this movie, but I've never understood one thing.
His boss knows he's been stealing prints, giving away free cameras, taking long lunch breaks...and he tells him TO FINISH OUT THE WEEK?? Like, ok....go ahead and steal some more, but after the week is over you're outta here! 😂
He should have just moved him down to the basement and given him a can of Raid. The problem would have worked itself out.
I have to tell you I worked for that guy Bill at an office job once. That guy took my red stapler and I was so pissed.
And I take it you didn’t get a slice of the birthday cake? 😂
"You're fired but still finish out the week"
🤣what!
One of Robins greatest and most underrated roles.
The best comedic actors often have the biggest demons and I think we saw a glimpse of that in Sys role with this film.
I really enjoyed that movie didn’t see it for the first time till 2023, but it was a 🦉 why do I feel like he was actually like that in real life felt that way😢😢
Pretty fancy office for a Walgreen's type drug store.
I think it’s more like a Walmart
I guess when Initech burnt down Bill Lumbergh had to find a job somewhere.
For every boss like this that we ALL have dealt with, they can all get what’s coming to them
"So, yeah Sy, if you could just finish out the week, clear out your locker and not fuck up a customer's prints, that would be great "
RIP Robin Williams 7 years ago
Incredible performance by Robin Williams. An underrated masterpiece.
Yoshi’s math skills are weak? This is probably the only instance in human history when those words have been used together in a sentence
Asian kids are born with a calculator in their hands
Racist
@MsTinkerbelle87 It's only racist if it isn't true my dear.
"I'm firing you but finish out the week for me, yeah?"
Wat
Either two reasons: One Sy WAS NOT working at will, meaning the company had to give him a notice of his pending termination or this was sort of a win-win. Sys' position was crucial to the stores photo department so they figure, let him finish out the week and get one last full paycheck while we have a few days to find a suitable replacement, since Bill said he talked to District. Of course, I know that ultimately, it is just a movie lol
Or it’s possible Bill was like “you know what it’s almost time for pay day and might as well let him finish out the week til payday so he has at least some more money til he gets a new job”
Personally, I would have just walked out.I mean I would not have given them the extra pleasure of taking advantage of me by letting me finish out the week.
"And if you do something like fuck up today's prints...." lol
I read this scene differently than everyone else. I think management has been aware of the extra prints and free gifts for years, and they let it slide because Sye's a good employee and they feel empathy for his sad life. And they had to fire him here because his behavior has become so inappropriate.
I think Sy has been getting away with it because the managers have been working there short term until Bill filled in the manager role and caught Sy out.
So, yeah, Sy, if you could not fuck up customers’ prints, that would be great.
I get the joke, trust me, but Sy didn’t fuck up prints lol he was just stealing them from the company and giving away free cameras.
Dam😢he was soo lonely sad and depressed, and he lived thru other peoples photos.I always wonder what happened to him in real life. I knew he was depressed, and that'll *definitely take you out*
He is no more :(
@@MrShuberth Yea its really really sad. My heart is broken for him😢
Ya me too :(
This movie must of been more of his personality involved than acting. Sadly. Still great actor. Rest in peace.
This was right around the inception of digital cameras...his job security was in the shitter anyway 😄
Kind of. They were creeping in during the 90s.
The company and manager wanted Sly out. He could have easily been suspended for 10 days and put on final warning.
Bill harbored misgivings about him anyway. I think he wanted a reason to get rid of him because frankly he thought he was creepy and not "all there".
@@Beppo85 Because he wasn’t…
The hostility in Bill when he told Sy that he better not fuck up the photos during his final days on the job was enough to suggest that Bill didn’t care for him, and didn’t want him there.
@@tomcameron1770 I mean yeah he was the manager and caught Sy stealing photos and cameras… of course he’s gonna be hostile.
@@triple7marc yeah, but before all of that, he was not so welcoming to Sy in the first place. He never cared for him.
"There's been some discrepancies in the TPS reports I mean click count".
Finish out the week, I’m surprised they didn’t escort him off the property.
I suppose since he was such a devoted employee they wanted to give him some time to find a new job before they cut off his income.
I've never seen someone get fired IRL and keep working for the rest of the week. That just spells sabotage.
There would be a whole lot more “discrepancies” happening in the next 168 hours.
"I haven't fucked up a customer's prints in 11 years." He may be a little disturbed but he's good at his job, and he actually likes it. How often do you find that in retail?
That look on Sly's face when he was told to he had to be let go his world went to shit and
this man lived an isolated life and really didn't exist and he was just dead inside and you feel sorry for this man b/c he hated his own family and he liked the Yorkin's so much and then the fact that the husband had an affair and Sly found out about it and goes after Mr. Yorkin because he betrayed his child and wife. Probbaly that's what happened within his own family his mother had an affair left him and he was forced to deal with his sick pedo father that took pictures of him naked and degraded him. You never know with people and what goes on behind closed doors. Sly really had nothing to gain and nothing to loose. He just wanted a family and to be loved. The whole movie was errie and Sly is one scary man. This is what loneliness does to people its the loneliness that is the killer.
This is what makes a real and truly scary horror movie, in my opinion. This is real life. There are many people living in Sly’s position, especially with social media nowadays. People are dead inside for whatever reason and hate their lives, so they live through influencer’s lives. This is especially true with Twitch nowadays. At what point does it stop being entertainment and become an escape from your own reality? Is it both? Loneliness is the true killer in soxiety
He wasted his employer's money. Every employer would have fired him on the spot. I have my own translation agency and can relate perfectly well.
When Sy is fired from Savmart, his boss Bill allows him to finish the rest of his work week. In real life, terminated employees are generally handed their last paycheck, asked to sign a couple of documents, and are escorted from the premises. Especially since Sy was fired for what appeared to be behavioral issues, he never would be allowed to continue working.
I had the same offer to finish the rest of the week with the first job I was dismissed from, but I decided to not come into work the next day because I was so distraught and angry.
The second job I was basically escorted by my manager to the door where I handed him my work badge and just left.
I guess it's always a delicate task firing someone without them going berserk and having to call security.
I wonder if those documents that they sign are that they promise to not seek unemployment benefits, nor sue the company. Since most terminated employees are caught off guard, and are typically emotionally distraught, they don't know what the hell they're signing.
Prior to being fired, Bill told Sy to take a Club Med vacation LMAO!
Fantastic acting by Robin sleep well
He ain’t sleeping. He’s in Heaven. Pray you go too. Amen friend✝️❤️⭐️
Great movie. But! In retail, when terminated, you go immediately. You don't finish a week or shift.
Sy Parrish is no longer employee at sav-mart.
Yes, I believe that Sy should have been fired for everything that he had done. The discrepancies on the photo finishing machine and the free camera. However, the scenes he created are another story. Here's why. A fight at the workplace doesn't always warrant termination. Yes, here Sy was at fault. Here's how I know. Earlier in the movie, Sy was in the lunch room and Bill Owens walked in right? Well, as Bill Owens was reconstructing the scene with the Agfa film machine tech guy, he described that there were OTHER scenes before that. His clue words were, "Sy, let me explain something to you one more time. These aren't your customers. They're SavMart's customers." Note the ONE MORE TIME? Bill Owens would only have said that only if Sy had created a scene prior the scene with the tech guy. So. That can only mean one thing. There were other scenes as well. If I had an employee who had a scene with just one person, and especially if that was the only problem and he was a model employee, I would be having a chit chat with the tech guy for example. This is especially true when there was a bank of employees who the tech guy had scenes with. However, if the employee was having scenes with a bunch of people on the other hand, I would be talking to the employee. Especially if there was a bank of people who the employee had scenes with. However, here in this entire movie in general, not just this scene of Sy's termination of Sy's employment, the movie One Hour Photo in general, Sy was creating scenes a bank of people. And, so yes. Sy needed to be canned. However, I seriously doubt that Bill Owens knew anything about the hotel room incident. The only way he would know about that is if it happened prior to Sy's employment termination. However, the hotel room incident happened after the termination. However, I do still believe that Bill Owens had to have suspected something with Sy. The family of Yorkins were programmed into the machine. So, the machine would most likely have indicated that the log discrepancies were only with the Yorkins family photos and nothing else. And, Sy scribbled out the 3 copies and put back the original 2. Every time that Nina requested 2 copies, Sy wrote 3. And, then later scribbled out the three and replaced it with the original 2 that Nina ordered. This would have been happening repeatedly and become a habit that I myself would have investigated. Bill Owens would have seen the scribbled out 3. And, Yoshi had to have seen this as well and Yoshi had to have at least suspected something was amiss and said something to Bill Owens. Bill Owens most certainly suspected something. No doubt about that.
Gary Cole played it well at this scene. Great acting there!
I love this movie. Funny how masterpieces take time to appreciate. But also not. It’s bc they’re SO GOOD, it takes our measly human brains a while to acknowledge. Amen✝️
God he was a great actor.
This really shows Robin athis other depressed self- The self that we never saw in any other movie what an actor!! I wonder how long his depression went on for? this movie really shows the suffering he was going through in reality!
Like most people probably bi polar-like myself and millions more especially those of us in the world of showbiz... people like us are very colorful and never boring
The way this scene plays out, you think Sy would target his boss at the end of the film.
@@Birdman669 I know, I'm just saying story -wise, it gives you the impression that Sy was going to kill him or something.
After learning how depressed Robin Williams was, it's difficult for me to watch anything with him in it. Saddening. Absolutely saddening. RIP Robin Williams.
In my 30 years of retail management, there is no such
Thing as firing someone and saying finish out the week. It would not happen.
Congratulations you're a dick
Hello Sy, what's happening? Ah.. we have sort of a problem here... Apparently there's hundreds or prints unaccounted for. If you could just go ahead and return those ASAP, that'd be great! Mmmkay?
Thaaanks a bunch, Sy
This movie is wonderfully shot.
Much similar to Joker, both getting fired from the job they loved 😔 and then they lose their mind 💯
Men* 😊
If you could still work the rest of the week even though I just fired you that would be greeaaat, 'm'kay?
Nice role for Williams. He was hitting his stride with dramatic roles by this time in his career. He makes Cy sinister yet he also makes him sympathetic in equal measure.
Gary Cole was wonderful in Fatal Vision
Sy can pretend he hasn't been stealing photo, BUT he still has to come up with a cover-up for how, being the store's only photo technician for 11 years, he never noticed or brought up these discrepancies on his logs
What does that mean shut down clicks??? I am confused
the shut down click is the actual number of prints the machine produces compared to the prints sold
@@NEIL-CURCIO TY sorry for the silly question
@@lmswentzeljr you’re welcome and it’s not a silly question at all 🤙
He’s printing more than what the till is saying. So either he’s stealing from the company or he can’t do simple math; Bill implying he’s doing the former.
Looks like Sy got a case of the Mondays after this...
There an interesting characterization here. Notice how Bill looks sympathetic & disappointed in firing him, but then quickly throws in the unprovoked petty things. Many GMs like him are trained to show empathy, not be stoic, keep tissues close by, when terminating someone. But he wanted to make it personal, he wanted Sy gone for a while. That’s why he hints that he should take vacation time; polite way of saying “let me interview your replacement while you’re gone.”
Actually in most jobs. Stealing from the company. Would warrant investigation by security. And arrest by the police. He would've been detained in his office. And lead out in handcuffs.
Would depend on company policy and culture. If they were super strict about no free merchandise, they absolutely could do that. However, some companies give their employees the discretion to give something free or give some sort of discount in certain situations like a disgruntled or inconvenienced customer, like if someone had to wait way too long or a product was defective or their photos came out lousy. Once you do that, it becomes harder to prosecute criminally for giving away something as small as a disposable camera for a birthday. If you give your employees any discretion to give away free things in any circumstances, cops are probably going to shrug and say, “This is a civil case.” Unless of course the cost of what you were giving away was far beyond reasonable.
He may have got fired for handing out free camera on their birthday that’s violating company policy. Anything wrong doing you do will show on radar even when boss isn’t with you.
"By the way, if you could come in on Saturday that'd be great."
What's SRS?
Draining out used fluids from the photo printing machines.
Sy! What’s happenin’? I’m going to have to terminate your employment here at SaveMart, sooo if you could go ahead and clear out your locker for me by the end of the week, that’d be greeat. M’kay? Thanks a bunch Sy!
"You're fired, now get back to work!" im sorry what?
Great film
Wow, who would've thought that the comment section for a clip from an underrated Robin Williams movie would be used for people to tell their own stories of being fired? I hope it brought some solace to all who have lost their job whether it be rightfully or not. I got laid off once and let me just say, it sucks.
His reaction being fired.. he knew he will never see his "Family" again.
lmao what a loser
I’ve worked at a grocery store for 12 years during that time I’ve had different store managers come and go
So Bill prop hasn’t been there that long
Exactly what I've been speculating. If Bill was Sy's manager for over 10 years then Sy would have been dismissed after 3 months at least.
The boss in any case would have noticed the discrepancies in the shutdown count pretty quickly.
Yeah if I could not lose my job over this, that would be great.
Robin Williams: amazing