They camp out for days and become the victims of an unseen master and his nerdy, sadistic minion (Jack Plotnick), and the two story frames converge amusingly yet trivially.
Smartphones make it easier for managers to change their minds at the last moment: for example, to e-mail a minion at 11pm to tell him he must fly to Pittsburgh tomorrow.
He was an exception: he was both a minion of fortune and its "scapegoat:" he escaped when his time was up, first from the parliament, then from Russia, finally from life.