The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Raymond Walburn: E.J. Waggleberry

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• E.J. Waggleberry : Well, I should say I do remember! I should certainly hope to kiss a pig if I didn't!

  Harold Diddlebock : Thank you!

  E.J. Waggleberry : Now, let me see, that was football, wasn't it? Or was it ice hockey? I go to everything!

  Harold Diddlebock : Football, Mr. Waggleberry!

  E.J. Waggleberry : Football, of course! And I presume I promised you a job; I usually do when I get excited.

  Harold Diddlebock : Oh.

  E.J. Waggleberry : But you shall have it! With me, a promise is a sacred pledge! My word is my bond, my handshake is like a certified check, my check is like a...

  Harold Diddlebock : He who loses honor, loses everything.

  E.J. Waggleberry : Right! We don't start people at the top, you understand; that would be too easy. We do it the American way! We give them an opportunity to work up! - from the bottom. What satisfaction! What a feeling of accomplishment you will have, when you are able to look back from whatever rung of the ladder your, eh, go-getiveness would have placed you on, to say, I - I did that!

  Harold Diddlebock : Yes sir!

• E.J. Waggleberry : You have not only ceased to go forward, you have gone backward. You have not only stopped progressing, you have stopped thinking! You not only make the same mistakes, year after year, you don't even change your apologies. You have become a bottleneck! You are the living proof of the low quality of work we demand of our employees and a bad example to the younger employees who figure that if you can get away with it, they can too and they don't have to be any better than you are! Which is zero.

• E.J. Waggleberry : [after just firing Harold]  Goodbye and good luck. And as a parting thought, I want you to know that this is hurting me much more than it is you, Harold. Much more!

  Harold Diddlebock : Thank you, very much. Goodbye.

  E.J. Waggleberry : Don't let it get you down.