Given what Waternoose did to
Sulley, an old family friend, when HE found out Waternoose’s secret and dared to cross him, I don’t think
Randall so much had to worry about Waternoose pulling “the Fire Card” as he did the
“Cement-Boots-and-Long-Swimming-Trip Card”! It was clear that Waternoose did not like Randall, had no
respect for him at all, UNLIKE how he felt about Sulley, and I have little doubt that he intended for Mike and
Sulley to perish in the Himalayas. If he would do that to a family friend, someone who had recently stated
“you’ve been like a father to me”, HOW can anyone have any doubt that if RANDALL had disobeyed him or
crossed him in any way, that HIS fate would have been 10 times worse? And even so, just because Waternoose never
specifically mentions firing(or doing anything else)Randall, NO boss/superviser is going to put up with
“insubordination”, and that is especially true when that boss/superviser has as much on the line as
Waternoose did. I can speak loudly and from experience here, having been put in the unpleasant situation myself
of being told by a superviser to do something highly illegal, as in FELONY illegal, and being told I would
receive great rewards and perks if I did it, and would be fired if I didn’t. So I KNOW that people like
Waternoose won’t flinch at playing “the Fire Card”, or worse. I knew, though, that there would be no
reward for me if I followed through with those orders, but that my dear superviser intended to turn me in to
state authorities, and I would be looking at a minimum of 10 years with no chance of parole! I chose to disobey,
and guess what? They DID play the “Fire Card”! I lost my teaching position in that district, was
“blacklisted” from pretty much getting work in any respectable school district in the state, and wound
up in the poorest, lowest-ranking district in the state-the only one that would have me, all because I refused to
break the law as ordered. Of course, it was THEIR word against MINE, so who do you think that the courts would
have believed? Like Waternoose, the school district I worked for had access to powerful and intimidating
lawyers, and I didn’t, and no, teachers in our state do not have a union. I can personally vouch for the stress
that Randall must have been under, which can and will cause anyone to “snap”, no matter how
“good” a person you think you are. I can vouch for the tactics that bosses and supervisers can and
will use, to gain the control of employees and manipulate and use them for their own gains. And I DON’T have
to HEAR Waternoose threaten Randall, anymore than I have to hear the weatherman tell me the sun will rise in the
morning, to KNOW it would have been a very plausible scenario-Been There, Done That. Randall chose a different
path from mine, possibly because he felt that the rewards would outweigh the risks and stress involved, though I
really do think that by the time the events of the movie transpired, he KNEW that he was in over his head, and
KNEW that he was driving 100 m.p.h. down a dead-end road, with no brakes. He was trying to deny it, trying to
hang on desparately to what he no doubt saw as his last-ditch chance to grab ahold of the Monster World
equivalent of the American Dream. In his immaturity(he was, after all, just 25), Randall, like a child, had to
blame SOMEBODY for all the stress and anxiety he was under, and he sure couldn’t say anything to Waternoose, now
could he? Sulley, therefore, became the target, the scapegoat, and I have just as little doubt that Waternoose
had done everything he could to exploit Randall’s fear of Sulley(or anyone else)breaking the All-Time Scream
Record, in order to keep Randall’s “comfort zone” to a minimum and help ensure his cooperation.
Again, Been There, Done That myself, so I know how the Waternooses of the world operate
first-hand!
pitbulllady
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You’re scaring people away 
