> The company's chief operating office, Julie Brazil, told local news outlet Link NKY that Gravity Diagnostics stands by its decision to terminate Mr Berling, w

> The company's chief operating office, Julie Brazil, told local news outlet Link NKY that Gravity Diagnostics stands by its decision to terminate Mr Berling, whom she said violated a "workplace violence policy". "My employees were the victims in this case, not the plaintiff," she said, adding that the company is challenging the verdict and is mulling an appeal. Seems like the company is doubling down on their defense and now saying the plaintiff was a violence threat could make it worse for them as defamation. HR fascinates me sometime and this might be a good case study in workplace madness. Company throws birthday parties so employee asks them not to throw one for him. They throw anyway, he has a panic attack and leave. In a group setting they say he was acting like a girl. He has another panic attack. They fire him. They lose the case and say he’s a threat of violence. It seems like they just keep doing weird things for no benefit to them unless they just really like birthday parties. Should have been the simplest thing ever to avoid all this.