Chapter 1016: Admitting Bad Luck
Since it was about Jason Harmer, the police acted quickly. When Jason and Scott arrived at the police station, they had already searched Cohen's residence. They did not find anything related to the new song, but they found something more interesting - drug residue.
Jason was very surprised to learn this explosive information after he left He Lushen's interrogation room. The police observed his expression and compared it with Scott's reaction just now.
They asked Scott seriously whether he had known that Cohen was taking drugs.
Scott was shocked and quickly denied it, trying to distance himself from the matter. "No, no, I just had a guess about this." He glanced at Jason who had just come over, hesitated and said, "At the beginning of this year, Cohen came to me and asked me to give him a raise of 10%. I didn't agree, and we had a very fierce argument at the time."
Jason exclaimed, "Why didn't you tell me!"
"I just treated it as a very ordinary little thing and didn't take it seriously at all," Scott, as a boss, would receive applications from employees asking for salary increases every few days, but every boss wants to hire employees with the lowest salary, even if the employee is Cohen who has worked under Scott for ten years.
Scott will never give in when it comes to his own interests.
And at that time he had already noticed that Cohen's face looked not so good, grayish and blue, dark circles under his eyes, and he had lost a lot of weight. He asked him if he was taking drugs, and Cohen of course firmly denied it. In the American music circle, taking drugs and taking marijuana is commonplace. The more famous you are, the more you take them, and they call it finding inspiration. People who don't participate in it are outliers. Jason and Scott are both outliers. They hate drugs. Although Jason has tattoos all over his body, he once participated in the filming of the US anti-drug public service promotional film and was also the anti-drug spokesperson for New York State. Some netizens used to joke that the reason why he ran out of ideas was because he didn't take drugs.
Scott and Jason's views on drugs are surprisingly consistent. He strictly prohibits his employees from taking drugs, and violators will be fired. Therefore, his company has always been clean and has almost never been involved in any illegal or criminal disputes.
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After that, Cohen asked for two more raises. One time was shortly after Scott and Jason returned to the United States from China. He questioned Scott why he would rather pay $1 million to a Chinese internet celebrity than give him, a ten-year veteran, more salary.
In fact, Cohen's salary is not only one of the highest in Scott's company, but also among all the record companies and independent music studios in the United States, there are very few music producers who can get his salary level.
Scott was still immersed in the depression and irritability of the $7 million price difference. He did not give Cohen face for being so rude and said sarcastically, "Because J and I believe that girl can bring us at least 100 times the profit, can you do the same? You are too greedy!"
Unexpectedly, Cohen was like a lit firecracker, screaming at him hysterically, "I have worked for you for 10 years, produced 7 albums and 43 songs for Jason, and he won Grammys for 3 of them. He is popular, famous and makes money because of me. Why can't I get the due value for my efforts? My salary has not increased for two whole years!"
Scott was frightened by the mad look, but the quarrel would not change his calculating nature. "The salary I pay you is absolutely reasonable. Ask yourself, how much progress have your talents made in the past two years? J can't create new works, have you provided him with any help you can? You are a composer, why don't you write a decent song yourself?! Your so-called value is based on your cooperation with J. Without J, you are nothing! You are not worth the money you ask for! If you are really dissatisfied with us, you can leave here and find another job." Scott was very angry and spoke very cruelly. He asked Cohen to leave, but Cohen refused. He was frustrated and stopped arguing with Scott.
When Scott thinks back on this incident now, he is afraid that the seeds of hatred had already been planted in Cohen's heart at that time.
After Liu Man arrived in the United States, the company began to prepare for the recording of Jason's new song. Cohen asked Scott for a salary increase for the third time, but Scott still refused mercilessly. This time, Cohen did not argue with him anymore, but turned around and left. Before leaving, he looked at Scott with a meaningful look, which made Scott remember it deeply.
"It's my fault. I didn't expect he would do such a thing," Scott regretted, and told Jason and the police, "If I had talked to him calmly and agreed to his request, I wouldn't be in trouble now!"
How could Scott not regret it? Cohen's expected salary is just a drop in the bucket compared to their losses!
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