What is Richard-law?
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A form of business etiquette adhered to by asshats and weasels. The niceties of Richard-law are as follows:
1) Begin with friendly overtures to friends and associates in the company.
2) Once the company is well established, attempt to take over through machination and/or backstabbing.
3) If Step 2 fails, rapidly degenerate into a screaming queen. Pick any random associate as a scapegoat and place all blame on him or her, demanding the person's immediate resignation. Pitch public hissy fits and regularly threaten to litigate. Make yourself so thoroughly smarmy and disgusting that your associates would willingly pay you just to be quit of you forever.
4) Pick a new company and start over. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Etymology: Named for the small (in every sense) businessman who first popularized this method of behavior.
James says if we don't run the company his way, he'll sue our asses. I guess Richard-law is the only law he recognizes.
