"Don't Mistake Business Associates for Friends"
Google Movie Synopsis:
When slick sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) has a crisis of conscience, he pens a heartfelt company-wide memo that promptly gets him fired. Desperate to hang on to the athletes that he represents, Jerry starts his own management firm, with only single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) joining him in his new venture. Banking on their sole client, football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry and Dorothy begin to fall in love as they struggle to make their business work.
When slick sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) has a crisis of conscience, he pens a heartfelt company-wide memo that promptly gets him fired. Desperate to hang on to the athletes that he represents, Jerry starts his own management firm, with only single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) joining him in his new venture. Banking on their sole client, football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry and Dorothy begin to fall in love as they struggle to make their business work.
Scenario:
Jerry Maguire has just been fired from his job at a big time
sport agency. Bob
Sugar (Jay Mohr) instantly becomes Jerry’s number one enemy.
Selected Scene:
Jerry Maguire: Hey
Bob Sugar: Hey buddy, you Okay?
Jerry Maguire: Fine, whats up?
Bob Sugar: Came here to let you go.
Jerry Maguire: Pardon.
Bob Sugar: Came here to fire you Jerry . . . It’s real, you should say something.
Jerry Maguire: A crowded restaurant so there won’t be a scene . . .you ungrateful
Bob Sugar: You did this to yourself, you said fewer clients, you put it all down on paper, Jesus Christ! What about me, you know what I went through knowing I was going to have to fire my mentor, carrying that in my head for a week, can you get past yourself for a second, Jesus!
Jerry Maguire: You’ll lose
Bob Sugar: You wanted smaller.
Jerry Maguire: Oh I’m over it, now I wont’ all my clients and yours to.
Business Tip:
It is a well-known fact, one sees their co-workers and
office associates more often then their own family. This is because
the days of the forty-hour work week as we knew it, are long gone. As
a result, we have a captive audience and are put into relationships we are
almost forced to deal with on a daily basis. As we realize this, we
begin to let our guard down and basically welcome strangers into our
lives. It is then we believe we have a group of new friends, when in
reality the group primarily shares a common interest or bond—work. When
a relationship’s foundation is one not time tested and/or built on trust and
loyalty it is the equivalent of building a home on swamp land, sooner or later
it will fall apart.
On average, it takes three years from when you meet and
become acquaintances with someone until enough tests have been passed on the
relationship that you know someone is a tried-and-true genuine “friend.” As with everything else there are isolated situations,
however, in the Jerry Maguire movie it shows us what most typical work related
relationships become after one misunderstanding. Your work associates are a promotion announcement away from
going from what you thought was your friend to quite possibly your number one
enemy a.k.a. Bob Sugar!
