Friday, December 18, 2015
Weasels
I have been watching this guy cavort across the internet.
Drug C.E.O. Martin Shkreli Arrested on Fraud Charges
He is a real weasel.
Fun to watch run around in its pen but bad to tangle with.
You can see the weasel-ness in his eyes. The smirk on his nasty little face.
What is a mystery to me is why and how anyone would have bought into his schemes.
It is amusing that they call him a "Drug CEO".
That means that he bought the rights to a drug that a lot of people need and immediately jacked the price up to an exorbitant amount.
I am sure he didn't mean to hurt anyone. Just the government perhaps who had to pay the co-pay on the drug.
In any case, guys like this come and go.
In my time as a public management trainer I occasionally saw this type. Cutting the corners, smirking in the back row. Looking for a few confederates to enjoy his shit.
The bad boy in the classroom.
I enjoyed taking them down but usually they turned at some point. They ran out of steam. And, it was my job to let them see and hear from others that they were not winning friends with their antics.
But some of them missed my class. Some of them didn't get kicked around by their mates.
I was good with these guys because I was one of them. Perhaps I still am. The inner weasel is still there.
I remember, in a very early job, a manager telling me that I would go far unless someone kicked the shit out of me first.
I believed that person and amended my behavior enough not to get caught.
The thing about weasels is that it takes one to know one. Apparently there are enough Feds around who get what these guys are like to catch them in the act.
One more thing. See that drawing? Weasels are cute. But they will be mean little bastards if you let them.
