After the Axe

4/6/2026

If there is one thing this epitomises about big business it's that loyalty counts for squat when your face no longer fits. That's what the fifteen year veteran EVP discovers when he loses out on the top job to a colleague turned rival who soon has him shown the door. His severance package includes a year's wage ($65,000) and access to some training services, and it's that process that we follow with ''Biff'' (James B. Douglas). Aside from this actor (and his family) everyone else here is real as he discovers that his skillset outside of his former organisation is both limited and dated. New employers know that this is a buyer's market, and so at the age of 44, he has to reassess his priorities for himself, wife and two teenage children as well as appreciate that he almost certainly is not