Richard: No. I didn't lose an account. I was taken off an account. I was taken off an account that I personally brought into this company 10 years ago.
Emily: There are other accounts, Richard.
Richard: I have been in charge of that account for 10 years!
Emily: How can you be so angry? Yes, they took you off that account but they also gave you a promotion.
Richard: Oh, Emily.
Emily: You said they moved you upstairs to a larger office and gave you a new title and a better parking space.
Richard: Emily, damn it! I am being phased out.
Emily: You are not.
Richard: What do you mean I'm not? I know whether I'm being phased out. I invented "phased out" for this company. Don't you think I did the exact same thing to Allen Parker?
Emily: Allen Parker retired.
Richard: Allen Parker was phased out. I now have his office. I now have his parking space. You know what happens from here? I lose more accounts slowly, but surely. They will put a younger man on them with me to be trained by the best. And then one day, they'll call and ask me to let that young man take a meeting without me, just to see how fast he's learning. And then, suddenly, that young man is given that account. And this happens again and again and again until I am nothing but a symbolic figurehead that they roll out for banquets and group pictures. And then, one day, Emily I will be asked to leave.