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Was it a foul?

God, it's not like when we used to play basketball, huh?

No blood, no foul.

What are you talking about? The only time there was blood was when the coach

threw a rock at you to get you off the court.

Hey, I could have been pro if I was a little bit faster and a little bit

and maybe a little bit more coordinated.

What are we going to do now?

Hey, man, you got to go. I got to finish these employee evaluations.

Oh, yeah, evaluations.

Hey, what did you say about me?

Let's see.

Ernesto Cardenas. He's punctual, hardworking, loyal, good with kids, and

occasionally messes in the house. Hey, don't write that.

It's okay. I also said you got intelligent eyes and a shiny coat.

Fine. Don't tell me. Don't worry about it, brother. I got you covered.

Oh, hey, you dropped your keys.

Oh.

Huh?

Oh,

they're in your hand.

Good boy.

I got it. I thought it was the perfect job to help pay for Carmen's private

school. It's something that I love to do, I'm good at, and I've been doing it

since I was 16.

Honey, we're not that desperate.

I'm talking about makeup.

Carmen, come down here.

I should be selling beauty products. I am really good at matching color into

skin tone.

Look at Carmen.

Wow, Angie, she looks great.

She can't leave the house looking like that, but she looks great.

Well, what's the point of looking great if I can't leave the house?

Because I worry about you.

Honey, when you were born, I held you in my arms and I looked at you and I said

to myself, that is one ugly baby.

No boy's going to want to go near that.

So are you saying I'm turning into a beautiful young woman?

Well, you got your words, I got mine. Off with you.

makeup. I wanted to practice on somebody with a different coloring than Carmen.

Plus, I've got great teeth on.

You know, I saw this

coming when he was six months old and reached for my earrings.

Hey,

Mommy can't stay in here. I'm doing employee evaluation.

Oh, you're doing them this early? That's not good.

Why not?

Well, because every time they do early evaluations, it's to figure out who

they're going to lay off.

The Powers brothers never said anything about layoffs.

Oh, they know that if they told you, you would give everyone good evaluations

because you care about your employees, Pansy.

Hey, I can be tough when I need to be. I gave Ernie a couple of sixes.

Well, I better make those nines.

George, we've read your evaluations. We've made some tough decisions.

Listen, guys, I have to tell you, I think layoffs are a bad idea. What?

not laying anybody off. No, in fact, we need to speed up production to meet the

deadline for the Blackwell project. We're making four people team leaders.

are promoting Charlie Morris, Leticia Harris, Buddy Palmer, and Ernesto

Cardenas.

Team leader, Ernie?

Yeah, you gave him all nines. He deserves to be leading a team.

No, it's funny. All this time we thought he was just... The boob at the company

picnic who eats all the pies.

Hey, so who are they firing? If it's Crazy Carlos, I'm not coming in tomorrow

because he's a shooter.

They're not firing anybody. They're making four people team leaders and one

them is Ernie.

Ernie? Well, he can't lead a flight of dog poop.

Well, I gave him a good evaluation because you told me they were going to

firing. Man, I should have known better than to listen to the woman who said

that the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus shot each other, so don't expect

this year.

Well, you can't let Ernie be a team leader.

No, nobody's going to take orders from that clown.

Especially his team. They're tough.

Hey, remember when Bobby lost his hand and they kept passing it around and high

-fiving it?

Well, I've got to talk to Ernie before the Powers Brothers do. Maybe I can

convince him not to take the job. Who knows? He probably doesn't want it

anyways.

here to train Angie Lopez?

I'm Angie. Come on in.

Excuse me for asking, but how old are you?

I'm 42, but I've been using La Marie rejuvenating cream for like the last 20

years.

You're already selling.

Come on, why don't we go to the kitchen where it's quieter?

All right, why don't we just jump right in here and you can try yourself to

pitch out on me.

Okay.

Well, Stephanie, thank you for coming to my lumery party.

I know you're not looking for bananas, because we don't sell bananas.

You must be looking for makeup. So, what can I do you for?

Okay, you suck.

Let's just talk about the products one by one.

Okay.

You know what?

I noticed that you have the most... Beautiful eyes.

Thank you.

If we could just do something about those crow's feet and those worry lines.

Crow's feet and worry lines?

All right. See what I did there? It's called a give and take.

I give you a compliment, and then I take it away by pointing out a flaw.

When women feel insecure, they're more likely to buy.

That's not in the manual.

Next Thursday is your very first makeup party.

Here at the house, okay? Now let me just run to the car and get some of the new

products that we're pushing. Okay.

Oh, George, this is my Lumery supervisor.

Stephanie, this is my husband, George. Hi, George. Hi. I can tell you're a very

hardworking man by the bags underneath your eyes.

You should try our Lumery cucumber man mask.

You know, thanks, but I'm married. I don't give a crap how I look.

You're in a good mood.

I got a big problem at work.

They made Ernie team leader.

Who screwed up with that?

Mine. I gave him too good an evaluation.

George, he's not a leader. What happens if he does a bad job?

His line will fall behind.

Oh, great. And then he'll look bad, and you'll look bad for recommending him.

And you'll look bad for marrying me.

I'm not going down alone, Angie.

George, you have to tell him it was a mistake. Even though he's your best

friend, you are the manager. You've got to make the hard decisions no matter how

much it hurts him.

Hey, guys.

Ernie!

Congratulations, team leader. We are so proud of you.

Man, team leader.

Isn't that something, George?

Hey. Did you ever think we'd both be management?

No.

Hey, listen, Ernie.

It's a tough job, man.

Maybe not everyone's going to see you as a team leader.

And that's why it means so much that you did.

George, all this time I thought I was happy with being just another worker.

But then you moved up and I started to realize maybe I could do more with my

life.

George, I want this.

I can do this.

I'm not going to disappoint you.

I'm going to kick some ass for you, man.

That's what a team leader does.

He kicks butt and cries all over his boss.

George, I need for you to sign off on my infection form. You know, not now, Mom.

I'm busy.

Oh, how far behind are you?

Oh, let me see. Today's Tuesday. I work 12 hours a day, six days a week.

The average man lives to be 74.

I'm Latino. Make that 71.

I'm married. 70.

You're still alive. Make that 54.

Ernie be team leader?

He'll be fine, Mom.

He'll be fine.

Look at Mr. Team Leader.

They're playing keep away with his clipboard.

It's his responsibility. He's got to control his team.

He's on his own now.

I'm not going to fix this like when he was a kid.

He's afraid of the dark. Come on.

Ernie, stop spinning the team leader.

It's okay, George.

just hazing the new boss.

You know, Ernie, they want you down in HR to do your paperwork.

Okay. Hey, I want you guys on your machines.

We're going to have a hard day's work.

We're going to give it 110 % because who makes the best rear axle stabilizer

struts in the business?

Boeing.

Well, who makes their cheap knockoffs?

We do.

Listen up.

We've got a big deadline to meet.

So I haven't got time for you guys to screw around with Ernie. So as far as

you're concerned, I'm your team leader and Ernie's your cheerleader.

Okay, you can listen to his pep talks, but if you've got a problem, you come to

me. And all this is off the record. Okay, I don't want him to know anything

about this.

Hey, HR was closed, so I'm going to go back later.

Why is everybody standing around? Come on, you should be on your machine. Let's

go. And I think this

lumery concealer would match your skin tone.

I don't usually wear concealer.

Oh.

You know, I just noticed you have such great bone structure.

It almost draws the attention away from that sun damage on your cheeks.

I have sun damage?

How many people are going to be this close to you?

I'd like to have a boyfriend.

I'm sorry, Angie. I kind of have to be someplace. I just wanted to look at

lipsticks. Oh, great.

A nice dark red will really pull the men's eyes up from all that loose skin

under your chin.

You notice that?

I lost 150 pounds, but I can't do anything about this loose skin.

Oh, my God.

I'm so sorry. You're fine.

Look, I'm just making things up because my daughter had to leave public school

because the girls were calling her a whore.

So we had to put her in an expensive private school, and that's why I took

job. So you guys don't have to buy anything if you don't want. We all have

skin.

Look, I swallowed a pencil.

I didn't know about your daughter.

I'll take some lipstick.

Got it. Angie, why don't you just say you needed the money?

I'll take two emergency kits.

My sister's a dog.

Thank you so much.

Why don't you guys check out the rest of my inventory in the kitchen, huh?

Thank you.

Your sympathy means so much to me.

And you, Missy, I am not going to prey on women's insecurities just to make a

buck. I'm going to use pity.

It works for me.

Well, you know, that's not going to work on everyone.

But it has to.

If I can't pay back the loan, we're going to have to take my daughter out of

private school, and we're going to have to give up the special tutors for my

dyslexic son, and we could still lose the car, even the house, everything.

Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I had no idea that... You're lying.

Am I?

Or am I just that pathetic?

George, you won't believe it. I sold so many cosmetics today, I'm ordering more

inventory.

Oh, my God. What is all that?

Well, the George that does Ernie's job is done for the day.

This is all the crap that the George who does George's job still has to do

tonight.

I'm glad I'm not him.

Well, we did talk about this.

Are you ready to hear it?

All right, let me get a beer.

Ready now?

Oh, can I get comfortable?

Now?

Dancing for me.

I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.

You know, when you do it like that, I almost enjoy being wrong.

Don't expect to dance every time you're wrong. I don't have that kind of energy.

Hey, Ernie, what's up?

Oh, nothing.

I just went to have some beers with Frank and the guys.

Oh, yeah? How many beers does Frank have?

Oh, let me see.

Two. four, six, eight, who don't you appreciate?

Look, Ernie. A cheerleader?

George, you told the guys I was only a cheerleader.

How could you betray me like that?

Well, the guys weren't supposed to tell you. I can't believe you went behind my

back like that.

If you didn't think I was good enough to be a team leader, then why the hell did

you recommend me?

It was a mistake.

Look, man, you're too nice a guy to be a team leader. I was just trying to

protect you.

Since when have I needed you to protect me?

How about our entire childhood?

Ernie, I saved your butt like a thousand times, man. Everybody took advantage of

you. Bullies, girls.

Remember that special needs kid you ended up pushing around in a wheelchair

high school?

Yeah. I found out he was faking and I beat the crap out of him.

So he wasn't special needs?

Well, he was deaf.

You beat up a deaf guy?

Ernie, for you!

Well, I'm an adult now.

Stop treating me like a baby brother and let me think or swim on my own.

So you think you can motivate your guys to meet the Blackwell deadline?

Yeah. How?

Five simple words. Pizza party at the zoo.

You know, it was a crappy idea on prom night and it's a crappy idea now.

Hey.

I'm gonna do this.

And you know what?

After I pull this off, I want you to dress up and be my cheerleader at a time

and place of my choosing.

All right.

And what happens if you don't pull it off?

I'll run around the factory three times naked.

Well, who wins there, Ernie?

Okay, team leaders, tomorrow we ship to Blackwell and need those status reports.

Hey.

George, where the hell is Ernie?

I don't know.

Well, we need his report now, George.

Okay, guys, listen. Ernie's report isn't in, and I take full responsibility for

this. I recommend it. When Ernie looks bad, I look bad. And when I look bad,

Angie looks bad.

So, let's focus on her.

I, uh,

sorry we're late. Hey, uh, guess where we were?

I'm thinking knee -deep in bourbon.

Oh, the zoo.

We met our deadline early, so I took my team out for a pizza party.

We thought it was going to be stupid, but it was actually fun. Although eating

pizza underneath the bird show was actually pretty stupid.

Yeah.

Oh, I hope all the other team leaders met their deadlines.

Yep, they all did.

Oh, okay.

But did they see a baby rhino being born? I don't think so.

Good work, Ernie. Thank you. Well done. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Congratulations, man.

How'd you do it?

Remember a couple of years ago, I got switched over from the lathe to the

press? And I wanted to prove myself, so I worked harder.

I figured if I switched all my guys to new machines, they'd work harder, too.

Man, I'm proud of you.

And your elephant looks pretty happy, too.

Hey,

we're not done, George.

Hey, ball, corner pocket.

Hey,

George,

you know what I want?

That's a bet.

You're so fine. You're so fine. You run the line. Hey, Ernie.

Hey, Ernie.

Oh, Ernie, you're so fine. You're so fine. You changed my mind. Hey, Ernie.

Hey, Ernie.

All right, nobody gives me any crap, but you can buy me drinks.

Let me get a beer.

You ready now?

Let me get comfortable.

Now?

Dance it for me.

You told me so. You told me so.