Well, because you sent them to that particular middle-of-nowhere on company orders, maybe. I don't know.
6 seconds sound clip from the Aliens (1986) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:45 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Remember you sent some wildcatters out to the middle of nowhere last week, out past the Ilium Range?
- One of them's on the horn, a mom-and-pop survey team.
- He says he's onto something. He wants to know if his claim will be honored.
- Why wouldn't his claim be honored?
- Christ! Some honch in a cushy office on Earth says, 'Go look at a grid reference'.
- We look. They don't say why, and I don't ask.
- Tell him as far as I'm concerned, if he finds something, it is his.
[...]