The Top 100 Movie Quotes for HR Pros: #85 is "You Know What The Best Part of My Day Is?" (Good Will Hunting)...
July 20, 2011
New series at the Capitalist: The Top 100 Movie Quotes of all time for HR Pros. In no special order, I break down the 100 movie quotes that resonate most for me as a career HR pro. Some will be funny, some will be serious... Some will tug at your heart like when the Fox voice-over guy said, "Tonight - a very special episode of 90210"... You get the vibe... I'll do it countdown-style like they're ranked, but let's face it - they're ALL special..
#85: "But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on your door, 'cause I let myself think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left. Now I don't know much, but I know that.""...
--Chuckie Sullivan in Good Will Hunting
In HR, you feel responsible for talent getting treated the right way. But, humanity is messed up. Sometimes great talent gets trampled on by economics, horrible bosses or other things out of their control - and yours. Yet they stay. Maybe they've come to rely on you as a sounding board, so much so that you've told them the best thing they could do is leave.
This conversation pretty much sums that situation up. The best part of my day? When I think maybe you finally had enough of the bad situation and freed yourself by becoming a volutary turnover statistic.
Sometimes it's the only way. Start listening at 2:10 if you don't want to listen to the whole thing (but it's all pretty good). NSFW with lots of F-bombs, so volume low or earpieces... Email subscribers click through for the video....
For me, it's the people I've put on a last-chance probation, while hoping they get the message that it's not going to work out. The few times they've actually used that time to job search and land another position and hand me a resignation letter before I have to terminate - oh, what a huge relief.
Posted by: Interviewer | July 20, 2011 at 09:12 AM
Interviewer - good call. Nice add!
Posted by: KD | July 20, 2011 at 09:14 AM
Very Very Nice, Thanks for sharing this!
Posted by: Internships | July 21, 2011 at 06:08 AM
One of my favorite movies of all time. Great quote!
Posted by: Jacob Weinfeld | July 21, 2011 at 08:08 AM
The only movie quote worthy:
"Anyone else wanna 'negotiate'?"
Korben Dallas in "The Fifth Element", after blowing the head off of the alien captors' leader, thus rendering them all useless.
We watched that scene before opening 2003 bargaining. It was teh awsum...
Posted by: Joel Kimball | July 26, 2011 at 03:06 PM
Informative post!! It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I like to watch it very much. Thanks for sharing such a nice blog.
Posted by: טויוטה | September 17, 2011 at 03:05 PM