Winner of the pompous a$$ award

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Or a Harvard education does not equate to good old common sense.
Ever get charged more than you expect? I am sure this happens – has happened to me before when a menu is not updated either online or the take out menu I have does not have the most recent prices. I think this is just a tad over the top though – but Damn that $4 is going to break the bank.

http://www.boston.com/food-dining/restaurants/2014/12/09/harvard-business-school-professor-goes-war-over-worth-chinese-food/KfMaEhab6uUY1COCnTbrXP/story.html?p1=Topofpage:Carousel_lead_linklist

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[+3] - Brandon9000 - 12/12/2014There are vendors who deserve this kind of treatment (e.g. utilities which screw you, and when you make a calm, polite complaint, apologize and screw you again) but this little Chinese restaurant...

He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College.
He has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University,
and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

This is the academic equivalent of inbreeding.

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@George,

"Common Victualler". Jeezus, I can see this in Mountain City Tennessee where people actually talk like that.

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@farmerman,

He teaches NEGOTIATION> Lemme see. Do I want to take his course ? I think hes told us that " successful negotiations" are all threat based

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@farmerman,

Its so funny - it is all over the Boston.com and on the local radio stations-- so everyone knows what an a$$ he is. And on the positive side this restaurant has now got so much free publicity and people as so siding with them - bonus free advertising and increase in business for them.

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Is it me, or does he look like Lurch from the Addams Family?

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Reading the comments, I love this one....

TinEagle DECEMBER 09, 2014 — 04:58 PM
Ben, I've read the course curriculum for the class my daughter is taking with you this semester. Looks like you have quite a few outlined subjects (16) of which she tells me only (9) are actually to be covered according to you. We have contacted a lawyer you self important little man.

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@Linkat,

waaaaiiiiiit a minit. WHAT IF THE RESTAURANT HIRED HIM?!?
Hes done hi job quite well if that's the case.

Maybe he wasnt working for them but, in order to stitch this wound up, Id claim that I was actually so doing.

Ill send him my invoice for Updating Our Negotiations Skills 101

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@farmerman,

This is why Princeton Faculty are superior to Hahvahhd

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@Linkat,

This Pompous Ass Award is bullshit!

I can be more of a pompous ass than that? I wasn't even invited to compete...

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There are vendors who deserve this kind of treatment (e.g. utilities which screw you, and when you make a calm, polite complaint, apologize and screw you again) but this little Chinese restaurant isn't one of them.

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@Linkat,

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@tsarstepan,

That is disturbing.

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@farmerman,

There are always any number of threats driving a negotiation. Labor negotiation holds all sort of threat, implicit and explicit.

Prenups, sales ... all negotiation holds threat. That doesn't mean negotiations are born of threat (some are: peace negotiation, divorce agreement),

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@maxdancona,

It would have been so unfair to put a ringer into the competition. Maybe next year.

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BTW this mook is now consulting for Microsoft.

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