Another bullying claim within RU athletics

[SleepingGiantIsAwake]

Clearly, you have no understanding of workplace behavior or management.

YesRU1 - You really have no idea what you’re talking about. 0 for 2 on your assessment. We can discuss over a beer at a tailgate one day.

These specific allegations were brought to RU administration and HR. Following procedure investigations occurred - conclusion - no wrong doing. No discrimination. No “assault”. Case closed. This is following exact corporate protocols which include workplace behavior.

You replied to my comments regarding someone claiming throwing a few sheets of paper at work was assault - that’s BS. Same for the “berating”. Investigated - nothing. Star Liars write War & Peace a case that’s closed. The race, gender, and bullying card getting thrown up when someone doesn’t like what they hear is all too common these days.

I’m really happy to see the outcome after due process and that RU is finally not just caving into nonsense that it has in the past.

 

[NotInRHouse]

So if the guy was "investigated" why did RU spending 15k to fix his crappy behavior?

Can anyone tell me another place of employment where you can earn 225k, do a poor job, and the employer spends 15k for an outside consultant for you to not do so poorly?

 

[scarletbergen]

Hobbs has got to, got to, got to GO!

 

[SleepingGiantIsAwake]

So if the guy was "investigated" why did RU spending 15k to fix his crappy behavior?

Can anyone tell me another place of employment where you can earn 225k, do a poor job, and the employer spends 15k for an outside consultant for you to not do so poorly?

Stop. Employers spend a lot on training, $15K is peanuts. The guy is responsible for a $100 million annual budget (that’s his actual job not baby sitting people - apparently he doesn’t do a crappy job at what he was hired for). Spending $15K which is already likely included in some annual training training budget is s good thing for all. Always room for continuous improvement.

Any large corporate entity has annual training education. And with all of today’s inclusion, diversity, etc those budgets no doubt have been increasing.

 

[yesrutgers01]

YesRU1 - You really have no idea what you’re talking about. 0 for 2 on your assessment. We can discuss over a beer at a tailgate one day.

These specific allegations were brought to RU administration and HR. Following procedure investigations occurred - conclusion - no wrong doing. No discrimination. No “assault”. Case closed. This is following exact corporate protocols which include workplace behavior.

You replied to my comments regarding someone claiming throwing a few sheets of paper at work was assault - that’s BS. Same for the “berating”. Investigated - nothing. Star Liars write War & Peace a case that’s closed. The race, gender, and bullying card getting thrown up when someone doesn’t like what they hear is all too common these days.

I’m really happy to see the outcome after due process and that RU is finally not just caving into nonsense that it has in the past.

You are in management and unhappy with an employee...nothing should be happening outside of closed doors. “We need to talk” “see me in my office”
If it is on the floor- even if the employee was wrong- manager is wrong. Throwing papers in their face- no no no no
Sorry- but I have had to council multiple managers on how to behave and when they turn the right thing to do to the wrong thing to do.
Never ever on the floor unless there is outright misbehavior against another employee or they will not meet you in private but then you get HR, security or other management involved immediately. If I ever had a manager throw papers at an employee or berate them in public, the manager is wrong. It is pretty simple

 

[Knight Shift]

This is getting ridiculous.

https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2020/02/...nvironment-in-multiple-formal-complaints.html

Waiting for NJ.com to run a bullying story about their own editor. Haven't seen it yet:
https://deadspin.com/nj-coms-sports-director-sounds-like-the-boss-from-hell-1830548206

"“You live in fear,” one source with experience working with Manahan said. “Get an email from Kevin and you think you’re on the verge of being fired. [...] I had heard horror stories about what it’s like to work with Kevin before I started, so my approach was just to hunker down and use it as a springboard.”
“[There was] a constant adversarial attitude between him and his employees, just constantly living in fear of getting an angry email, berating you or even threatening your job,” a different source said. “Even if you just made an honest mistake.”
The subject of Manahan threatening his staffer’s jobs or otherwise belittling them in emails came up over and over again; Deadspin reviewed several emails from Manahan that corroborate descriptions of this behavior.
Yet another source put it like this: “It wasn’t based in mutual respect, it was just fearful. I definitely did not see him as a mentor.”
A fourth source was even more blunt:
“I mean, what more can I say? Dom’s tweet was completely accurate,” the source said.
“He’s an insecure bully who routinely mind-f**ks his staffers and sows a toxic culture of intimidation and fear,” Dom Cosentino wrote in the tweet in question. “He’s a lying sh*t stain who gaslights staffers by displaying my old ID badge during performance reviews in his office and gesturing toward it to pretend he fired me. He ‘works you hard’ by acting like a sociopath.”
In a follow-up conversation, Cosentino said he was told Manahan pointed to his ID badge and said something along the lines of “I’m not afraid to make a change” to scare staffers into thinking they were going to be fired. (He was not fired, Cosentino says, but rather quit because he had had enough of working for Manahan.)"

 

[srru86]

So someone new came in (Szul (sp?), realized people already on staff sucked, and tried to clean up the mess.

Because not white males being told by manager their work is not acceptable, race, gender, and “bullying” (LOL) cards get thrown in.

Dopes at Star Liar write a very long article of trash.

Don't forget age. And it's not just Athletics. In recent years we have heard similar things from Enrollment Management and Career Services. I'm probably missing some others. Long-term centers of mediocrity that when new leadership was brought in by Barchi certain incumbents felt targeted because their cushy situation was being challenged.

 

[yesrutgers01]

Don't forget age. And it's not just Athletics. In recent years we have heard similar things from Enrollment Management and Career Services. I'm probably missing some others. Long-term centers of mediocrity that when new leadership was brought in by Barchi certain incumbents felt targeted because their cushy situation was being challenged.

That is what performance reviews are for. Throwing papers and public berating of employees by management cannot be tolerated.
Depts where there are employees not doing their jobs should be cleaned up and cleaned out, but there is a way to do it.

 

[RUevolution36]

That is what performance reviews are for. Throwing papers and public berating of employees by management cannot be tolerated.
Depts where there are employees not doing their jobs should be cleaned up and cleaned out, but there is a way to do it.

i feel like the people in these posts who are posturing up and saying "what's the big deal" would never act like that at their own jobs. internet muscle flexing at its finest.

i had a coworker who was at a client whos dept head was pretty unstable. she went into a meeting with one the dept head and one of his employees to present a deliverable. They brought a binder with the report and all the supporting documentation. When presenting to him, he abruptly looked at his employee and said "i'm sick and tired of looking at you and your sh**", picked up the binder, and fired it at her head. The two of them left the office and reported him to HR. He was escorted out of the building later that afternoon and never came back.

 

[NotInRHouse]

Stop. Employers spend a lot on training, $15K is peanuts. The guy is responsible for a $100 million annual budget (that’s his actual job not baby sitting people - apparently he doesn’t do a crappy job at what he was hired for). Spending $15K which is already likely included in some annual training training budget is s good thing for all. Always room for continuous improvement.

Any large corporate entity has annual training education. And with all of today’s inclusion, diversity, etc those budgets no doubt have been increasing.

Annual training and education to maintain licenses, yes. This was corrective because the guy didn't do a good job. A lot of other qualified people would take 225k with the same qualifications and state benefits to do the job properly.

 

[Knight Shift]

i feel like the people in these posts who are posturing up and saying "what's the big deal" would never act like that at their own jobs. internet muscle flexing at its finest.

i had a coworker who was at a client whos dept head was pretty unstable. she went into a meeting with one the dept head and one of his employees to present a deliverable. They brought a binder with the report and all the supporting documentation. When presenting to him, he abruptly looked at his employee and said "i'm sick and tired of looking at you and your sh**", picked up the binder, and fired it at her head. The two of them left the office and reported him to HR. He was escorted out of the building later that afternoon and never came back.

Cool story, bro. That did not happen here.
From the story:

"And one source said during an alleged incident in the summer of 2017 he threw paperwork in the face of a female employee and walked away.Szul denied throwing paperwork in the face of an employee when asked about the allegation Monday."

Asked if throwing a folder and papers in an employee’s face violated university policy, McDonough said “after a thorough investigation, it was concluded that Mike Szul had not violated the policy on workplace violence or harassment.”
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End of story.