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It has definitely been an interesting day...
Around 10:00 this morning, my Group Lead gets called into a meeting. A few minutes later, he comes storming back into our bay, slams his notebook down onto his desk, and starts taking stuff out of his overhead bin. Trailing shortly behind him are two representatives from the contracting agency he was working through, and a security guard.
One of my team mates asked what was going on, and David (Group Lead) says, "I've just been fired."
The guard told him he had to stop what he was doing and come to the main entrance. David ignored him, continuing to pull stuff out of the bin, out of drawers, etc. David started yelling, everything from "Get out of my face!" to "I'm an American, and you shouldn't take someone else's word over mine if they aren't one, too!"
Back in December, a teammate of mine filed a religious discrimination charge against him. Why he wasn't fired *then*, I have no idea.
It seems that another complaint/more complaints got filed against him, this time for ethnic slurs.
Out of all of the developers in our bay, only 3 of us are "natives" ::G::. We have quite a few gentlemen from India, and one from Taiwan. Whenever they get a phone call from someone who speaks their native language, naturally they use that instead of English.
Whenever David hears this, he will usually start making cracks about, "We'd better run, they're calling in airstrikes from their terrorist buddies!"
So it all came back on him today, and they told him that comments like these were why he was being let go. Judging from his comment about taking a foreigner's word over an American's, and from something he said in a phone conversation this afternoon with the fellow who will probably (hopefully) be taking his place as Group Lead, he is pretty sure that the complaint came from one particular Indian fellow who sits in our bay, but isn't part of our group.
I wonder if anyone has bothered to point out to him that this person just got back yesterday from being on vacation for several weeks to get married and go on his honeymoon? What, he thinks this person took time out from his honeymoon to phone in a complaint? Or possibly that he filed it before he left, and they let it stand that long without acting on it?
Whatever. He's gone now... and it will be interesting to see how things go without him.
Personally, I suspect it will be a significant improvement.
And yes, I know who filed at least one of the complaints, but I'm not inclined to include that at this point.
Around 10:00 this morning, my Group Lead gets called into a meeting. A few minutes later, he comes storming back into our bay, slams his notebook down onto his desk, and starts taking stuff out of his overhead bin. Trailing shortly behind him are two representatives from the contracting agency he was working through, and a security guard.
One of my team mates asked what was going on, and David (Group Lead) says, "I've just been fired."
The guard told him he had to stop what he was doing and come to the main entrance. David ignored him, continuing to pull stuff out of the bin, out of drawers, etc. David started yelling, everything from "Get out of my face!" to "I'm an American, and you shouldn't take someone else's word over mine if they aren't one, too!"
Back in December, a teammate of mine filed a religious discrimination charge against him. Why he wasn't fired *then*, I have no idea.
It seems that another complaint/more complaints got filed against him, this time for ethnic slurs.
Out of all of the developers in our bay, only 3 of us are "natives" ::G::. We have quite a few gentlemen from India, and one from Taiwan. Whenever they get a phone call from someone who speaks their native language, naturally they use that instead of English.
Whenever David hears this, he will usually start making cracks about, "We'd better run, they're calling in airstrikes from their terrorist buddies!"
So it all came back on him today, and they told him that comments like these were why he was being let go. Judging from his comment about taking a foreigner's word over an American's, and from something he said in a phone conversation this afternoon with the fellow who will probably (hopefully) be taking his place as Group Lead, he is pretty sure that the complaint came from one particular Indian fellow who sits in our bay, but isn't part of our group.
I wonder if anyone has bothered to point out to him that this person just got back yesterday from being on vacation for several weeks to get married and go on his honeymoon? What, he thinks this person took time out from his honeymoon to phone in a complaint? Or possibly that he filed it before he left, and they let it stand that long without acting on it?
Whatever. He's gone now... and it will be interesting to see how things go without him.
Personally, I suspect it will be a significant improvement.
And yes, I know who filed at least one of the complaints, but I'm not inclined to include that at this point.
