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August 2, 2006
"Doing a Ratner"
According to Wikipedia:
Doing a Ratner is a British business phrase referring to a chief executive or a senior person of a company who criticises the company's products or disparages the customers, frequently with disastrous results for both the person and the company.
The entry also notes that our own Bruce Ratner has occassionally been caught "doing a Ratner:"
On the other side of The Pond, a Forest City Enterprises executive, developer Bruce Ratner, characterized his own Atlantic Center mall as "not something that we’re terribly proud of" [1]. Additionally, in May, 2004, Bruce Ratner memorably insulted customers who live near the same mall to a NY Times reporter: "here you're in an urban area, you're next to projects, you've got tough kids," [2].
Posted by lumi at August 2, 2006 11:21 AM