Pixelated, you don’t have a career, by any chance…one where you have to work for a supervisor, who is all about MONEY(and making more and more of it), and thinks nothing of using people for his/her own personal gain, then discards them like last week’s garbage.
I have a feeling that your answer is “NO”.
I HAVE worked for such a boss…more than one, actually. Lucky me. I’ve been in Randall’s position, and I know first hand how this business works.
Let’s get some things straight. Waternoose was the CEO of Monsters, Inc., the Head Honcho, the MAN. His family had owned the company for three generations, so he was what folks down here call “old money”. He was used to having things go his way, from birth, simply because he was a Waternoose.
Randall was a Nobody, in terms of power. He earned minimum wage(this is according to Disney’s “Essential Guide To Monsters, Inc.” by the way). He was definitely an “odd man out”, a square peg in a round hole, so to speak, but also very competitive and driven to succeed, to prove his worth to somebody, ANYBODY. On top of that, Randall was just 25, still very naive like most Human World counterparts at that age, still trying to hold onto the Monster World equivalent of “The American Dream”, yet probably also being hit hard with the reality that the REAL reason he was working was simply to pay bills and keep a roof over his head. Been There, Done That, Got the T-Shirt. That would have made him a sort of injured sea lion to Waternoose’s “Great White” persona-an easy mark, in other words. Now, factor in that Randall must have had or demonstrated considerable engineering talent(perhaps he had a degree in such), and there’s the perfect set-up.
Here’s a FACT-Big-shot bosses/CEO’s, with all that power, DO NOT TAKE ADVICE FROM OR LISTEN TO “NOBODIES”! I have an easier time believing that there actually IS an alternate reality, in which the dominant lifeform on Earth is a bunch of monsters, than I can believe for ONE SECOND that a Nobody like Randall Boggs can just walk up to a big-shot Boss like Waternoose, and say, “I’m gonna build this machine to steal screams from human children, right here in YOUR factory, and then I’m gonna use it to become rich and famous and take over YOUR company, and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Kiddo, the universe DOES NOT work that way. Never has, never will, in ANY dimension.
The Scream Extractor was Waternoose’s idea, period. HE needed someone to design it and build it for him, since he probably had no engineering skills to speak of, and he needed that someone to be EXPENDABLE-someone he could easily manipulate, and who better than a 25-year-old “kid”, that had no family(so therefore no one would miss him if he “just disappeared”), someone who already had the motivation to want to prove himself, and had the skills to be able to design and build a prototype Scream Extractor, and Waternoose found that individual in the form of Randall Boggs. It wouldn’t have been too hard; a simple computer check of employee profiles would quickly have matched him up with the traits Waternoose was looking for. All businesses maintain those on employees, for just that purpose-to match them up with the skills they are best suited to. Unfortunately, what Waternoose had in mind for that particular employee was illegal at the time, but hey, that’s how a lot of these CEOs get to where they are, by using or taking advantage of someone else, and skirting around legal issues. Think the big oil company CEO’s are making their billions upon billions 100% legally and honestly? If you do, I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona I’ll sell ya, real cheap…and I’ll even through in this bridge in Brooklyn for free! Waternoose is no different, other than species, from those guys, or the guys who were running ENRON(Google it if you’re too young to remember what that was), and he needed someone to take the fall in case the wrong people found out about the Scream Extractor, and of course, that someone was Randall Boggs. Randall wound up being the main ANTAGONIST, because Waternoose wanted to stay out of the picture until the machine was proven a success, and the legal issues of bringing “dangerous” human children into the Monster World were worked out, but if you believe that Waternoose actually intended to reward Randall(as he’d no doubt promises, with an executive position in the company, more money, etc.)once all was said and done, I’ll not only sell you that nice Arizona beach property, and the Brooklyn Bridge, but I’ll even throw in my own personal snow skiing/snowboarding resort here on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of South Carolina, where you can enjoy sub-freezing temps and mountains of icy snow, all year round!
Heck, Waternoose didn’t even LIKE Randall, and that tone he takes with him shows that clearly, so why would someone like Henry J. Waternoose allow someone like Randall Boggs to use HIS company and HIS company’s equipment and money to build a machine that was RANDALL"S idea, especially if Waternoose knew that the main reason Randall wanted to do that was to hurt the chances of Waternoose’s OWN PERSONAL FRIEND(aka James P. Sullivan) of breaking the All-time Scare Record? That scenario makes absolutely no sense at all, none, zero, zilch. If you believe that it does-that the Scream Extractor was all Randall’s idea and HE manipulated poor old Mr. Waternoose into letting him build that machine so he could defeat Sulley, I’ll GIVE you the White House AND the Grand Canyon, along with everything I promised, along with a lifetime set of placards emblazoned with a certain famous quote by P.T. Barnum…something about “suckers”. I don’t think he was referring to lollipops, either.
pitbulllady
I thought I was wrathful one…yay ^0^ I’m not the wrathful one! ^0^…Sorry LG ^_^:;;;;;;;;;
Didn’t seem to me like he regretted it.
