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>"The lawsuit said that Crétier, Garda’s founder and chief executive officer, told a meeting full of executives that he ran one of the world’s largest investiga
by csours 6y ago
>"The lawsuit said that Crétier, Garda’s founder and chief executive officer, told a meeting full of executives that he ran one of the world’s largest investigative operations and if anyone leaked how bad the company’s finances were, he’d find out. According to the lawsuit, he added: “I will kill you, and I will kill your family.”
In a deposition, Crétier admitted he threatened to kill any executives who leaked information. But he testified that he was joking and denied threatening to kill family members."
Holy shit. Things that are not appropriate for managers to joke about: Protected class, firing people, killing people.
- Judgmentality 6y agoI have no way of knowing whether or not he was really joking (and obviously it's not okay to joke about that), but why would you trust him that he was joking? He hardly seems like a trustworthy guy.
- csours 6y agoI guess my tone and mentality were not apparent from my comment, because holy shit yes that's the problem.
- treeman79 6y agoCouple decades ago I had a boss who in corporate meeting threaten “jokingly” that he would have me hack them if they didn’t get X done. All good fun for him. Earlier in the day I had someone trying to convince me seriously about hacking a bank. I had to pull boss aside and let him know it wasn’t joking matter. I had the skills back then to do it. I was terrified of people trying to use me to do it. That fear kept me out of info sec, so it would never come up. I didn’t want to know how.
- ludamad 6y agoI understood more rendering the point moot than considering its validity
- Unsimplified 6y agoI have heard in person, multi millionaires joking about shooting people in the back of the head within the company open office and during business negotiations.
- hedberg10 6y agoWhen you watch "The Office" you think Michael Scott is bad and cringy, fake firings and all. Then you get into the real world. I've had to explain, as a very junior employee, that joking about firing someone is bad. And maybe this behavior would have something to do with morale. This person oversaw about 250 people and had been for 10+ years.
- m463 6y agoI wonder if "embrace, extend, extinguish" were actual words uttered by executives.