Don, the tightly wound, middle-aged manager, brushed his hair to one side like Hitler and suspected everybody of stealing.
8 30 P.M. (TV5Monde) MADAME IRMA (2006) Francis (Didier Bourdon), the middle-aged manager of the French subsidiary of an American technology company, can't admit to his wife that he has lost his job.
Accordingly, most of the characters here are human guinea pigs, not least Sandra, the frumpy middle-aged manager of a chicken franchise who, in the middle of a bad day and a busy shift, gets a call from someone claiming to be a policeman, accusing Becky Dreama Walkerr), the pretty teenager working the counter, of stealing a customer's money.
A harassed, middle-aged manager takes a call from a police officer, who informs her that there is a thief on the premises: a female employee has stolen money from a customer's purse, and it is up to her to detain the teenage miscreant until the police arrive.
A far cry from an interview I had the same week under my old name, wherein a middle-aged manager with no interest in hiring me sat on a table and interrogated me on my views of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin and the future of Baltic politics.
Andy Zuk, the compost plant's affable, middle-aged manager, had received us inside of his bright, tidy office, where he encouraged us to pile our coats, scarves, and sweaters before entering the dark, damp domain where the county's 70 million pounds of trash is sorted every year.
Andy Zuk, the compost plant's affable, middle-aged manager, had received us inside of his bright, tidy office, where he encouraged us to pile our coats, scarves and sweaters before entering the dark, damp domain where the county's 70 million pounds of trash is sorted every year.
Although a few Japanese firms have sought Pasona's services, foreign affiliates can often make better use of Japan's diversity of young talent.Foreign firms also make more attractive employers for those middle-aged managers who do have useful expertise.
It has been almost a decade, for example, since Mitsubishi started an early-retirement plan to unload middle-aged managers: anyone over 48 years old receives a topped-up pension if he leaves.
Deeper inside the campus sits another building, largely occupied by a team of 20-somethings and a few middle-aged managers, that produces sports content for just one device: the cellphone.
The slang of social networks will also move from the schoolyard to the boardroom: it is only a matter of time before middle-aged managers talk about "poking" when planning marketing campaigns.Anything 2.0 Web 2.0 is a dull piece of jargon to describe the internet becoming a platform for interaction and collaboration.
