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Re: Fate of Phil Backburn?
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forced into indentured servitude working a rice paddy in malaysia? 
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, " I drank what?"
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, " I drank what?"
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Per the Novel, Phil is forced to resign for leaking the story to the Media. I have only read the novel, not seen the film, so I am not sure if the media is involved in the film.
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not sure if that was brought up. don't think so. 
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, " I drank what?"
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, " I drank what?"
Re: Fate of Phil Backburn?
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Phil was Garvin's right-hand man, the company's chief legal counsel. In the book, Phil Blackburn not only gets dumped, he is told by Garvin to hop on the quickest flight & get out of town, because being the legal counsel he would be subject to the press, legal inquiries, etc. Phil was responsible for making sure that the whole sexual harrassment & incompetence scenarios involving Sanders were executed, but handled "quickly & quietly" so it would not affect the merger. However, in the book, it would appear Phil leaked details of the harrassment case to Constance Walsh, a reporter from the Seattle newspaper, who had the story about the sexual harrassment case at Digicom "biased against" Sanders released, first in a damaging vague editorial opinion column, then leaked to the local TV station, against the wishes of her editor. This, combined with the massive press covering the in-house merger announcement/arcamax presentation a.k.a. "incompetence" set-up "gone wrong", was enough coverage to publically bring Digicom into some serious negative light.
Weird part of all this: In the book, 10 years earlier, Phil Blackburn & Tom Sanders were close friends during the period Tom was seeing/dating Meredith. Years later, Phil was even Tom's "best man" at his wedding/marriage to his wife Susan.
The book's last page ends with "what happened to" postscripts for each character. Phil Blackburn ends up with a more lucrative position as Chief Counsel w/ a company twice as large as Digicom, as well as higher recognition in the legal industry, as Chairman of the Ethics Panel of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Weird part of all this: In the book, 10 years earlier, Phil Blackburn & Tom Sanders were close friends during the period Tom was seeing/dating Meredith. Years later, Phil was even Tom's "best man" at his wedding/marriage to his wife Susan.
The book's last page ends with "what happened to" postscripts for each character. Phil Blackburn ends up with a more lucrative position as Chief Counsel w/ a company twice as large as Digicom, as well as higher recognition in the legal industry, as Chairman of the Ethics Panel of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Watch your back, trust no one, stay one step ahead, always have a backup!
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