I am implying that. In the time since this story I've had a lot of time to think about the ethics of this situation. Even if he was a sleazy liar, sleazy liars

I am implying that. In the time since this story I've had a lot of time to think about the ethics of this situation. Even if he was a sleazy liar, sleazy liars are people too, and someone getting fired is drastic. But to use your terms, a multiplier on a negative quantity is more deeply negative. He was doing his job duties none at all or poorly. Other people had to clean up after his messes and lies. I created a throwaway account to tell this story because he was the most sociopathic IC I've seen in the business, and my career is not brief, I am not normally phased or automatically put off by sociopaths.