Put that Coffee Down

Alec Baldwin's cameo scene from David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross is a classic distillation of what the ideology of hard selling is all about: high pressure, shame, humiliation, competition, and the link between financial success and self worth. I wanted to show the entire movie to my comp classes, but I don't have the time. Instead I'll show them this scene. In my business writing class, I will show the entire movie and build a memo/letter writing assignment sequence out of it, in which they're going to assume different roles and write routine, bad news, persuasive and analytical messages.