Human Capital Management

Up in The Air [2009]

Ryan Bingham:

        [sitting across the aisle from each other on a plane] Natalie, what is it you think we do here?

Natalie Keener:

We prepare the newly unemployed for the emotional and physical hurdles of job hunting, while minimizing legal blow-back.

Ryan Bingham:

        That's what we're selling. It's not what we're doing.

Natalie Keener:

        

        Okay, what are we doing?

Ryan Bingham:

We are here to make limbo tolerable, to ferry wounded souls across the river of dread until the point where hope is dimly visible. And then stop the boat, shove them in the water and make them swim.