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   Shakti

   May 5, 2015

   I saw the episode you’re mentioning. The guy is dependent on a significant gift from his father (the $220,000 is not entered as a loan on the company’s books), doesn’t pay his girlfriend who has his child, and treats a key employee, the sign designer with disrespect. He also goes to war with a customer.

   Many people buy into the idea that family is treated differently in business and that means you can fail to compensate them or compensate them poorly or pay back loans or treat them with lots of disrespect.
   There are tax benefits to hiring family members, but this doesn’t include that. As a practical matter, the girlfriend is an idiot, but I’m sure she believes this guy will never abandon her and he is committed to her. She may have been told that not having a salary makes the business look better on paper, (which is something I’ve seen a lot of — people not paying themselves to make the cash flow look better). I think it makes people underestimate the real cost of running the business.

   This story, about a woman pushed out of her family business, pushed a lot of nerves with me.

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      Clarissa

      May 5, 2015

      This is the perfect example of a patriarchal subjection of a child to the parent. Utterly disgusting.

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