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H A L - The Sell

Story Board and Script

Story board

Actors:

Tom Ð'- short description??

Mike - short description??

Others - short description???

Scene 1

Tom the Sales VP for HAL is writing his notes for the next meeting with the team, after 28 years of a successful career in the company his already preparing his retirement which will happen in just 2 years. The meeting starts and Mike is persuading the team for an extra effort, they're still at some distance from the annual budget and Mike knows by experience that they need to secure one of the current big biddings or several of the smaller to make it. In the background we see a poster with the company's values and code of conduct.

Scene 2

It's late, Mike's working on an offer to a client bid for xxx M$ in computers, software and services.

Mike knew price was critical in the client decision and then he had an idea, let's try to access the client's web to get more knowledge on them, at their www he found a link for their intranet and he thought "let's have some fun" (mike was a hacker while a student at college),

he started a password brute attack software and run it and went for a coffee, when he come back the screen was blinking "access granted"

He then search around and found a folder with all competition offers.

Scene 3

The team is celebrating at general manager's office. This deal allowed HAL to achieve the budget for the year and a significant bonus is given to Tom (VP) and Mike (Salesmen). Tom talks with Mike and congratulates him, too. Later he asks Mike to stop by his office just after ceremony.

Scene 4

Mike enters Tom office. VP asks Mike some questions:

By the way what made you change our price in the last minute? Ð'- You don't want to know... Ð'- I do. Ð'- Well, I managed to access our