Episode #3: Old Yeller
This was, apparently, widely known in our IT organization: One of my peers was notorious for calling one or another female staff member into his office and screaming at them for no reason.
A member of one of my teams asked me why I didn’t do anything about this. After thanking them for letting me know about the situation, I met with the CIO, who informed me that while problematic, my peer was in many ways a strong performer, whose ongoing stream of accomplishments the company would miss should they be lost. And so, HR was working with the offending manager to try to get him back on the rails, on the grounds that the company didn’t want to lose such a valuable employee.
My insight — that the company had already lost quite a few valuable employees because of this situation — wasn’t, shall we say, welcome.
