Bob_Roberts

We believed we
Would see with our own eyes the new
World where man was no longer
Wolf to man, but men and women
Were all brothers and lovers
Together. We will not see it.
We will not see it, none of us.
It is farther off than we thought.
. . . It does not matter.
We were comrades together.
Life was good for us. It is
Good to be brave - nothing is
Better. Food tastes better. Wine
Is more brilliant. Girls are more
Beautiful. The sky is bluer . . . .
If the good days never come,
We will not know. We will not care.
Our lives were the best. We were the
Happiest men alive in our day.

I guess I just expect something more from people than for them to find their point of maturity in the act of firing another human being.

I did read the article and the title is not provocative, it's actually accurate.  This is what Tweedy says about firing Bennett:

“If you wanted to pinpoint a moment where I was doing something boss like and mature, that would have been it,” he says, then looks away. Though Tweedy does not mention it, Bennett died in 2009. “‘Boss like’ sounds terrible, but you know what I mean.”

IMHO that act is definitely "Boss like" but it's not mature, nor is it compassionate, nor is it ethical.  It's just a guy in a position of power who finds an underling a nuisance and gets rid of him.  At least that's how I see it.  How is that growing up?

I was unaware that it's a virtue or a sign of "growing up" to fire your friends especially when their livelihoods depend upon it.  But I guess that's the warped corporate mentality of the age we live in.  Such a pity.