@AcerPlatanoides
Seems like the show might have been called Ramsay’s Boiling Point which documents him opening a new restaurant. It’s his earliest listed TV appearance on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0950342/ and there are a bunch of episodes on youtube.
I’ve just skimmed the first episode and he does come across as a self-righteous asshole who is unnecessarily mean to his staff. I’d not seen that show and my primary experience of him has been Kitchen Nightmares and occasional appearances on Australian cooking shows in which he certainly seems to have chilled out, at least to his underlings.
I’m obviously not comparing the guy to Steve Jobs, but Steve copped a bunch of criticism for his management style - pushing people beyond what most consider reasonable and berating anyone who he perceived to be “fucking up his company”, irrespective of whether they’d done anything wrong at all.
There is a school of thought that pushing your staff and berating them when they don’t meet your unreasonably high expectations is a way to achieve great things and foster skills and self-confidence in your staff as it shows you expect them to be awesome. I’d never run anything like that because IMO if someone is doing their best and their mistakes are earnest then that’s cool. If someone really sucks or is truly lazy you fire them.
