It hasn't been about making money as a company for a while now.  It's about buying a company, saddling it with debt, the proceeds of which are payable to the purchasers, and then not watching it burn while running down the next victim.

Yeah, stop liking the things you like, assholes!

Not even more money, just a higher percentage of profits.

They’ll fire their whole staff, turn into a managed brand that fades into irrelevance, because in ten years time the kids they’re trying to fob their shit off on won’t even know what SI *was*, and ride the revenues all the way to zero.

I just got done talking to someone who works for a competing health system in our city and this quote couldn’t have been more perfectly timed to read.

“There will always be soulless brutes who buy, gut and sell things, and die as they lived, without value or memories. May their demises be slow, painful and filled with screams only they can hear.” 

I imagine having your employer basically telling you that you and the rest of the schmucks who have actually worked for them aren’t good enough for even a small promotion is just great for morale. I know it would make me want to work that much harder!

I actually now remember going to an all-hands meeting once where they had a slide labeled “Customers” with all of our biggest customers listed below, then they had a animation cross them out and replace with “Shareholders”. For some reason the VP giving the speech was surprised when the entire crowd groaned and a few…

Milton Friedman is the switch. The idea corporations are only responsible for shareholders equity means increasing share price is the only thing that matters. 

In my head, this is all the Joker origin story I need:

While your points are correct and valid, he still gave this a higher grade than expected. I was expected a C or lower. Therefore, it looks and sounds like this is a good movie if you’re willing to put the ideology and scaremongering aside and watch it objectively.

They’re all just pale copies of Cesar Romero.

Maybe Phillips shouldn’t have very obviously tried to reference Scorsese if he didn’t want people drawing comparisons to Scorsese!

I thought The Hangover was funny enough, but that Dowd line was probably funnier.

“If teams lower ticket prices too much, they could devalue their product and drive away those customers who still pay hundreds or thousands of dollars each season for a premium experience.”

Say anything you want about Harley Quinn

“Hey Ewan wanna get paid a shitload of money to ham it up for a few weeks?”

better box copy: One banana, two banana, three banana, GORE!

I’m very worried that my fellow Irishmen are going to see this movie and be inspired to engage in a life of crime.

Oh wait, we’re all already criminals. All good.

Could have been worse- usually when a Colombian ends up 80 kilos short, his whole family gets murdered.

(Who’s the real monster? Still the torturing rapists, Rob.)