It seems that Phat's hero is a bigger asshole and entitled POS than I even suspected. He is obviously mentally ill and a deranged narcissist. Which is pretty typical for the billionaire set.
Lots of articles out discussing his bizarre behavior and "rules". Here is one.
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There’s piss on the floor.
So read the email from Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, and a billionaire many times over. It would be read by more than 1,000 of his underlings at the company.
Everyone at Bridgewater would soon learn the backstory. Dalio had excused himself from a meeting and walked to the nearest restroom at Bridgewater’s sprawling, medieval-stone-style headquarters near Westport, Connecticut. After relieving himself at the urinal, Dalio glanced down. There was piss on the floor.
This couldn’t be allowed to go on, Dalio said. Whose was it? And who had permitted it to happen?
“If people can’t aim their fucking pee, they can’t work here,” Dalio proclaimed.
It seemed inconceivable that it could be an accident. After all, Dalio ruled Bridgewater under what he called his “Principles,” which held that no matter was too small for investigation. There were hundreds of Principles, including one that stated, “People have to value getting at truth so badly that they are willing to humiliate themselves to get it.” Employees were instructed to “probe” one another’s work, as Dalio put it, on a daily basis. That wasn’t all. As part of what Dalio called “radical transparency,” a team of videographers and editors made tapes and videos of Dalio’s many lessons to his staff. These were uploaded into what Bridgewater called its “Transparency Library,” viewable internally. All employees at Bridgewater — from top investment strategists to receptionists — were required to view cases pulled from this library.
That puddle of urine on the bathroom would be the subject of one of these cases. Dalio summoned the hedge fund’s head of facilities for questioning. Staff were assigned to a rotating guard, standing outside the restroom to take notes on all who entered — and whether they left clean floors. After each visitor, a member of the cleaning crew would rush in to mop. New urinals were brought in for testing. Stickers were applied to the porcelain to give men a more effective target. Then the exact placement of the stickers was probed.
For all that, Dalio was never able to figure out exactly what had happened at that urinal.
‘Ray, This Is a Religion’: Inside Ray Dalio’s Hedge Fund
And this. Read it. Stunning. He recorded it and showed it repeatedly to all employees.
Ray Dalio Interrogated His Pregnant Employee Until She Cried: Book
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