This is a great movie. It covers serious emotional territory in a medium that is easy to manage. His job is to come into a company and tell people they are going to be fired--they usually get some kind of a parachute (not usually golden, but often more than what I might be able to expect in similar circumstances). He has been doing it for awhile, and he is good at it--he can read people and situations, and he does not ever let it get to him. When he is teaching Natalie the tricks of his trade, she encounters someone who says that she is going to jump off a bridge. he convinces her that most people are all talk and no action. She is wanting to belief him. She asks him if he ever goes back and checks. He says no, no good would come of that. He has teflon coated his life and up to a point, it has worked well for him.
He gets his yaya's from his frequent traveler perks--of which he has many. He is a 350,000 mile flier--each year. He revels in his importance in this small world, and it insulates him from what else he might be doing. When his company threatens to do what he does remotely, via the internet, he is forced to face living in Omaha. How will he manage that? He really has no idea, and as he tries to unwind what matters to him, he finds himself having been fooled by a fellow traveler. And what good comes of that?
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