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Sounds like a VP is under a tremendous amount of stress, and took it out on this one employee. This is not professional behavior in the least. The good news is

Sounds like a VP is under a tremendous amount of stress, and took it out on this one employee. This is not professional behavior in the least. The good news is that he manned-up to his mistake by acknowledging it and apologizing and trying to make amends. I've seen many execs never acknowledge their mistakes for yelling, swearing etc, so I give this guy credit. People make mistakes, and unless this VP has a history of doing the same thing, I would take him for his word and it feels like the firing is water under the bridge.

tyre 2y ago
His VP apologized when their skip level boss got involved and forced him to. He wasn't doing this voluntarily.
_bin_ 2y ago
yeah this is not atypical in finance orgs. sounds like it's a culture clash of "analyst in tech ops" getting the first-year IB associate treatment. apologized and offered to buy him a beer, seems fine to me and hardly worthy of any sort of article or reporting.
starspangled 2y ago
> Sounds like a VP is under a tremendous amount of stress, and took it out on this one employee. It doesn't really sound like that to me. > But his day soon took an ominous turn, when he received a text from Garrett Monaghan, a Vice President – Branch HelpDesk. “I don’t know what the fuck you just did, but come to my desk immediately when that town hall ends. Please,” according to a message that was viewed by Fortune. Monaghan was Welch’s immediate supervisor in 2022 and 2023 and, though he is no longer his direct boss, they both work in Technology Employee Support Services, or TESS, a division of JPMorgan Chase. > When Welch got to the meeting with Monaghan, he says he found the VP standing in a small conference room, along with another executive, Jeffrey Todd Merrill, Vice President – Global Dedicated IT Support, who was seated. (Merrill was Welch’s boss from 2018 to 2021 but is no longer.) Welch says that Monaghan told him he had “just dragged our whole organization through the mud. Go and clean off your desk and get the fuck out of here,” Welch recalls. [The VP eventually, hours later and presumably after the issue being escalated above him, begrudgingly sent a dishonest "apology" (why would he have told him to GTFO if he 'agreed with his message' as he claimed).] This was not just a momentary unprofessional loss of temper. He took an employee's honest question as a personal affront "for making the VP look bad in front of the boss", and arranged a lynch mob so he could throw his weight around and humiliate a subordinate. This has the character of a devious sycophant with a personality disorder. He may or may not be under stress, but I would bet that has little bearing on this kind of behavior and also that it is not the first time he has done something like it.

tyre 2y ago

His VP apologized when their skip level boss got involved and forced him to. He wasn't doing this voluntarily.

_bin_ 2y ago

yeah this is not atypical in finance orgs. sounds like it's a culture clash of "analyst in tech ops" getting the first-year IB associate treatment. apologized and offered to buy him a beer, seems fine to me and hardly worthy of any sort of article or reporting.

starspangled 2y ago

> Sounds like a VP is under a tremendous amount of stress, and took it out on this one employee. It doesn't really sound like that to me. > But his day soon took an ominous turn, when he received a text from Garrett Monaghan, a Vice President – Branch HelpDesk. “I don’t know what the fuck you just did, but come to my desk immediately when that town hall ends. Please,” according to a message that was viewed by Fortune. Monaghan was Welch’s immediate supervisor in 2022 and 2023 and, though he is no longer his direct boss, they both work in Technology Employee Support Services, or TESS, a division of JPMorgan Chase. > When Welch got to the meeting with Monaghan, he says he found the VP standing in a small conference room, along with another executive, Jeffrey Todd Merrill, Vice President – Global Dedicated IT Support, who was seated. (Merrill was Welch’s boss from 2018 to 2021 but is no longer.) Welch says that Monaghan told him he had “just dragged our whole organization through the mud. Go and clean off your desk and get the fuck out of here,” Welch recalls. [The VP eventually, hours later and presumably after the issue being escalated above him, begrudgingly sent a dishonest "apology" (why would he have told him to GTFO if he 'agreed with his message' as he claimed).] This was not just a momentary unprofessional loss of temper. He took an employee's honest question as a personal affront "for making the VP look bad in front of the boss", and arranged a lynch mob so he could throw his weight around and humiliate a subordinate. This has the character of a devious sycophant with a personality disorder. He may or may not be under stress, but I would bet that has little bearing on this kind of behavior and also that it is not the first time he has done something like it.