Very first thing I said - "When done in bad faith". Sounds like you were perhaps arguing against a strawman? I never said don't ever go to upper management, no

Very first thing I said - "When done in bad faith". Sounds like you were perhaps arguing against a strawman? I never said don't ever go to upper management, nor that there is never a reason to go to upper management. Just that if someone goes to upper management the way this guy did, the right response is to let them go, that they are a liability to the team, the manager, and the company at that point. Honestly to themselves, too, but that's not on the manager to fix.