Up in the Air (I) (2009)

Dustin Miles: Ned

Quotes 

• Natalie Keener : [using Ned as an example to fire someone over the internet using video conference]  Mr. Laskim, The reason we're having this conversation is because your position at this company is no longer available

  Ned : [reading the script he was given]  I don't understand I'm fired?

  Natalie Keener : Hearing the words "you've been let go" is never easy change is always scary but consider the following: anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it.

  Ryan Bingham : [while watching her presentation, quietly to a colleague]  that's my fucking line

  Ned : what happens now?

  Natalie Keener : This is the first step in a new process that will end with you at a job that fulfills you

  Ned : Yeah, but how does it work?

  Natalie Keener : You're going to take the packet in front of you review it, all the answers you're looking for are inside. Start filling out the necessary information and before you know it and before you know it you'll be on your way to new opportunities. I need you to go back to your desk and putting together your things. As a favor to me I'd appreciate it if you don't spread the news just yet panic doesn't help anyone

  Ned : I understand

  Natalie Keener : [to the staff]  give it up for Ned

  Natalie Keener : [concluding her presentation]  You can start the morning in Boston stop in Dallas over lunch and finish the day in San Francisco all for the price of a T-1 line. Our inflated travel budget increased by eighty five percent, more importantly to you guys on the road, no more Christmases in a hotel in Tulsa no more hours lost to weather delays you get to come home.