AS posts a story about ... well, you just have to read the whole thing, it's juicy:
Coombs: "I heard you were, like you always do, and if I catch you, your ass will be grass."
Carter: "Are you going to punch me?"
Coombs: "No, You'd like that wouldn't you. But thatis not going to happen. I'll fucking fire your ass. I’m going to fucking take your ass out."
Carter "I didn't bad mouth Julia's series."
Coombs: "You always bad mouth the Washington Times. Stop pissing on this paper."
I wish that some economists would actually come to grips with what actually passes inside companies.
Too often, we seem to get platitudes about how 'rational' companies are and canards about capitalism and "freedom" or even social progress.
True, some establishment economists are more subtle, and don't suggest that companies are rational, just that there are forces on them that make them tend toward ... "being better" if they do something "wrong". Sometimes the defense of bad behavior is that workers have a choice to move to other firms. The first depends on whether you think that such things as occur in this piece are really status quo, not episodic, it seems to me. The latter just seems too crude to cover the facts of what occurs.
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