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20 Things I learned from The Secret of My Succe$s

posted 12 years ago by BuRanSOK
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OK I know there arent too many people on this board but I just watched the movie for the first time in years and I think it's perfect for one of these threads.. I only made it 20 cos .. well it'll probably take months to get to that!!

1. In 80s corporate world there are only 2 strategies: expand or cutback..

2. If you're the boss of a company and you think that a newly hired employee is a spy.. don't bother trying to ask who actually hired him.

Tell sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide

[–] timmaninaz 12 years ago

A comment on 2. Never mind the fact that the CEO does not take immediate action to figure out who he really is. That could have been intentional to show how incompetant he was. But, if you suspect someone is a spy, you don't let them stick around while you try and figure it out so they can gether more information.

Anyway, I think the thread is a good idea so I'll go ahead and add a few of my own. I do love the movie but here are my additions to this thread:

3. You can get a job in a big company without ever interviewing with your boss. This is shown early in the movie when Brantley meets his boss and told right away that he is fired. Clearly, he had never set foot in the building prior to that.

4. You can pretend to be an executive while actually working in the mailroom and no one would recognize you when you delivered their mail.

5. You can take the elevator in an office building straight to the floor that the CEO's office is on without being announced or stopped by security first.

[–] JHollis 12 years ago

6. New York is just like Kansas, intensified.

7. There's almost certainly hidden talent in the mail room.

8. Female executives can be very attractive, but a good secretary should be dumpy.

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[–] Ditto-head 12 years ago

9) Melrose can do his rounds in 30 minutes, but the boss thinks it takes 2 hours.

10) A necktie cuts off the flow of oxygen to a man's brain.

11) If you make friends with a rich man's skanky little dog, he'll be glad to underwrite your scheme to buy out a company.

12) Trees produce oxygen

13) The boss of the mailroom has a slight superiority complex

14) An offhand compliment meant to appease the boss's wife will get a mailroom boy laid.

15) Brantley prefers being chased by dogs than hitting it with his aunt.

16) Vera hasn't been hanging out in the mailroom.

17) Sheila is a nut.

18) Secretaries like bosses who keep taking their pants off.

19) Roaches and mice have to stay on their side of Brantley's apartment.

20) College grads who have never had a job in their lives know more about running companies than executives who've been there for years.

[–] vxpra 11 years ago

21. Don't consort with the suits.

[–] buddyboy28 11 years ago

22.It's OK to bang your aunt as long as she's not blood related.

23.Brantley's neighbour likes it constantly.

24.You can't beat an 80's montage.

[–] BuRanSOK 10 years ago

25. That song : Yello - 'Oh Yeah' is FUNNY AS $HiT in every 80s montage!!!

Tell sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide

[–] rj-27 9 years ago

26. All it takes is one referral from Vera Prescott and before you can say "hostile takeover" you find yourself the CEO of a company that employs 50,000 people worldwide, with a gross revenue larger than the GDP of Mexico - all just because she thinks you're cute and you can charm 3 of the biggest names on Wall Street into believing you really do know what you're talking about.

27. A weekend put together to build a defense against a hostile takeover will only require a 3 minute meeting out of the entire weekend to do it.

28. When you put together a weekend as an emergency measure to ensure the continuity of your companies future, make sure the identity of the person you suspect is a spy and a plant is never found out by you.

Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H.L. Mencken

[–] strntz 9 years ago

29. Arthur Fiedler would have make a good porn director

Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.

[–] RichNice 9 years ago

30. Billy Jean got over that rebellious phase and became a corporate sellout real quick....

"Who died and made you the f!cking king of the zombies!?!??"