Yes. As an anecdotal at a startup I worked at years ago the founders best friend who had become COO would bring women up to the office after hours and fire cal

Yes. As an anecdotal at a startup I worked at years ago the founders best friend who had become COO would bring women up to the office after hours and fire call center employees at random to show off "his power in the company." Another time the company was having a hard time paying the bills so they fired quite literally half the staff seemingly at random and then delayed their final paychecks.