To me, this article reads as an excuse for the company to behave in a sociopathic way, and then turn around and try to pin the blame on some employee when they (perhaps rightfully) stand up for themselves.<p>I&#x27;ve been in situations where people performed blatant religious discrimination towards me, and also threatened to reduce my wage due to discussing pay with a coworker (threatening any form of retaliation for discussing pay is blatantly illegal).<p>The company easily could have raised some of these same complaints towards me just to try to leverage their comparably greater resources to pin blame on the worker rather than own up to the all too common sociopathic tendencies that develop inside bureaucracies.<p>In the end, both this comment and the parent article are just anecdotes. But I say it&#x27;s a better prior to be more skeptical of managers&#x2F;higher-ups&#x2F;bureaucrats who are willing to drop the &quot;psychopath&quot; nuke on behavior they don&#x27;t like, than the toxic employee.