Maggie: Why the long face ?
Joe: I just heard that I won’t be rehired for next year.
Maggie: That’s awful ! What a rotten thing for the management to do.
Joe: I’ll be okay, but Monica is losing her job, too.
Maggie: Oh no, not Monica, too. I’m so sorry to hear that . Who do they think they are ? How can they treat us this way?
Joe: They’re management and they can do whatever they want to. Monica just bought a new house and I’m sure she’s going to have to sell it.
Maggie: That’s really too bad . Listen, I know you’ll be dead set against the rest of us pulling together to talk to the management, but I think the time has come .
Joe: I won’t let you or anyone else around here put your jobs on the line to try to save ours. The management will definitely take a dim view of us workers trying to speak out . Just lay low and hope that you won’t lose your job, too.
Maggie: I don’t know what the others think, but I’m not going to take this lying down . If they think we’re just going to sit here and take it , then they’ve got another thing coming !