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The response from the Boring Company executive feels like gaslighting.

> Buss later clarified that he does not believe The Boring Company has a “common” practice of missing payments to vendors, but rather missed payments happen sometimes during “the normal course of business.”

I’m sure this small business owner spent a lot of time and effort trying to get this corrected, but got no cooperation from Boring Company. If Vice President Buss or others want to look trustworthy, they need to explain in a public post-mortem what happened, and how they’ll avoid it going forward, and how they’re making this company whole including for their lost time.

> The final straw that caused Shane to pull his crew from the site was when multiple employees reported that a representative of The Boring Company was soliciting them to bail on Shane and work directly for TBC on Monday.

And this is just deeply unethical. They’re basically holding a fraudulent business relationship with the purpose of poaching employees, it seems like.



I believe Twitter (after the Musk purchase) also regularly refused to pay its bills: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bil...


So, the Greediest Person In The World [0] also cheats subcontractors and workers out of their pay, and poaches employees — who would have guessed?

[0] a far more accurate way to describe those who hoard wealth without helping the people or society who got them there, vs the usual praise as the "richest"


Just like the president he looks up to.

Maybe that's the American Way? (/s but not really).


I love the comparison with fictional characters that we all agree are evil and overly rich: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/04/20/billionai...

Somebody worked out that Smaug would be the 14th wealthiest American.




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