 Nick <unk> ( Bateman ) and Dale <unk> ( Day ) are friends who <unk> their bosses . Nick works at a financial firm for the sadistic David <unk> ( Spacey ) , who implies the possibility of a promotion for Nick for months , only to award it to himself . Dale is a <unk> assistant being sexually harassed by his boss , Dr. Julia Harris ( Aniston ) ; she threatens to tell his <unk> Stacy ( Lindsay <unk> ) that he had sex with her unless he actually has sex with her . Nick and Dale 's <unk> friend Kurt <unk> ( Sudeikis ) enjoys working for Jack <unk> ( Donald Sutherland ) at a chemical company , but after Jack unexpectedly dies of a heart attack , the company is taken over by Jack 's cocaine @-@ addicted son Bobby ( Farrell ) , whose apathy and incompetence threaten the future of the company . 
