Разговорный бизнес курс. Митрофанова И.В. - 31 стр.

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he is sacked, or fired, now and not given his full pension it would have an extremely
bad effect on everybody, since he has been with the firm so long. Peter, at the
meeting, cunningly suggests that the company makes up the difference. In other
words, the company pays Bob Hardiman the money to make up his pension from the
fund to the full amount that it would have been if he had not interrupted his
employment. Peter is shrewd enough to know that Mr. Grant will not want to do this
and may perhaps decide that the lesser of the two evils is to let the man stay until his
proper retirement age In this episode we hear that the chairman, Ambrose Harper,
who is an elderly man, is very ill. Peter is worried because he knows that Ambrose
Harper owns half the shares in the company. If these are bought by a rival firm, or a
larger company that wants to take them over, the present set-up, organisation, could
change completely.
(In Peter Wiles's office.)
PETER WILES:Ian, what's this about Bob Hardiman being sacked? He's been with
the firm since it started, and he's the only real craftsman we've got.
IAN HAMPDEN: Yes, but H.G. rightly points out that there's no call for elaborate
hand-carving on desks nowadays; we don't need desks like this one you've got here,
for example. He says Hardiman is now redundant.
PETER: It'll break the old boy's heart. Wait. I've got an idea.
IAN: What?
PETER: The Pension Fund Trustees' Meeting. It's this Thursday. His name's bound
to come up if he's being dismissed; his pension'lll have to be approved.
IAN: How will that help him? It won't save him from redundancy.
PETER: No, but that's when we can speak up. There's you and me on one side and
H.G. and our dear company secretary on the other. Which leaves our Chairman,
Ambrose Harper. And you know what a soft heart he has. The pension scheme itself
was his idea. He'll be bound to agree with us.
IAN: But Ambrose Harper's ill. He's not coming to the Pension Fund Meeting.
PETER: Oh Lord! We've got to think of something... Look, I've got another idea.
Hardiman left the firm for a while, didn't he?
IAN: Yes, about five years ago. He came back to us two years ago.
PETER: Why did he leave?
IAN: He went to live in Scotland to look after his father. When his father died, he
came back to us.
PETER: I see. And what happened to all the contributions he had paid into the
pension fund before he went to Scotland?
IAN: He left them in the fund.
PETER: So he still qualifies for a pension?

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