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Canadian tycoon Jim Pattison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Pattison) was known for firing the lowest performing car salesman each month.

Let's not glorify this people and state what it is: toxic behavior and abuse.

it was cute, perhaps, in Glengarry Glen Ross (coffee is for closers!), it's abhorrent when seeing it used here.

It wasn't cute there, either, it was explicitly a device to stage the desperation that catalyzed the rest of the plot.