In The Middle (1959)

[Music] I don't know sometimes I wonder what's the use you beat your brains out fight for the people who work for you and what do you get a headache Oh my name is louis i run this department design department well you know how it is sometimes you're busy and sometimes you're not and the other day the boss called me in al simpson he's the division manager what's up al well things are pretty slow Jim we're gonna have to cut down on our help and we figure you can get by with one less girl here we go again every year it's the same thing you just get your help trained where they can give you a good day's work out then you have to let them go oh I tell her things might pick up in a month or two tell her you'll call her back no you know I'll never get that same girl again then I have to go out and hire another one and it's a couple of months before she's any good to me hey Jim you were telling me yourself just a couple of days ago that you haven't got enough work to do to keep everyone busy you know we can't afford to keep people on around here when there's nothing to do and it seems to me there ought to be some way to work this out in a couple of months we'll be loaded with work again and then the cycle starts all over well why not use this as a weeding out period or all your girls doing a good job yeah yeah they are al even the newest girl is doing a bang-up job all right Jim what are you suggesting well look al I know you don't like to do it but how about letting me transfer one of my girls to accounting for a couple of months now only yesterday we'll it was telling me all over again how badly he needs some help we've tried that before it just doesn't work well it needs experienced help you boys always want to let your least experienced girl go tell you what I'll let Willard have my best girl she worked in accounting several years ago but he has to agree it's only temporary within two months I get her back you're willing to do that yeah yeah as long it's not a temporary basis that way in two months I'll have my help again we'll add chase an accounting please who's a girl mark Roberts well it al Simpson have you found a girl to help out with your final report yet how would you like to use one of Lewis's girls on a temporary basis Marge Roberts okay whatever report to you in the morning well that works out all right for everybody thanks al thanks for helping me out on this mark I was talking to mr. Simpson a while ago and things are pretty slow in the department the way they are every year at this time and as usual mr. Simpson wants me to lay off one of the girls me well I was hoping to work it out so it wouldn't be anybody oh you see I worked out a deal with Willard chase in accounting he can use a girl for a couple of months it's its annual report on who's going mr. Lewis well I I told him you were and he said fine but I didn't like working for mr. chase this is only temporary Marv why do I have to go why not send somebody else why not send one of our newest girls no no that'd be Betty I can't stand her he needs an experienced girl like you no now you work there before you know the ropes well I don't see why I should have to go just to keep Betty working a couple of months look Marge there are some things we all have to do that we don't like I've got some problems running this department that you can't be expected to know anything about I have to make decisions Willard is not a monster and two months isn't forever I've got it all arranged now and I've got no good reason to change it will it expect you to report to him first thing in the morning okay [Music] and on top of that I just don't like Willard chasey he's a regular slave driver I don't blame you I don't like him either what about our new girl Betty Stanley why didn't they send her I wouldn't stop with Louis I'd go straight to the front office if it were made right to mr. Simpson I'm sorry to bother you mr. Simpson but could I see you for a minute why certainly come in I'm Marge Roberts mr. Simpson oh yes you're the one going to accounting in the morning well no that's what I want to talk to you about you see I went to accounting I don't suppose I'll ever know exactly what Marge said to Al Simpson but there's one thing I'm sure of she said plenty as a general rule Marge is quiet industrious cooperative but she also has a Faculty of being very firm in her opinions once they're made well I'm sorry miss Roberts I wish you didn't feel that way well I'm sorry too mr. Simpson but I do feel that way now I realize your position but well I simply won't go if that gets me fired well that'll have to be alright too [Music] get me Luis well he got me I bust my back to keep my girls and look what happens now the old man thinks that I don't know how to handle my help and the rest of the girls are mad at me for picking on mark and me I'm right in the middle taking it out on the wife at home so he's mad at me too what's a guy supposed to do [Music]