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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. I think that's his business side.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 10:52 AM

Mar 2016

Basically, he's saying 'Everyone I tell to do things gets a paycheck from me, or expects to get something in kind from me.'

You see that sort of thinking in a lot of businesses. The boss thinks of himself as a 'leader', simply because nobody wants to lose a paycheck by telling him he's doing something stupid.

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