Greymalkin: sleze: AirForceVet: He should have lost his job, IMHO. If I had items like the ones described in my office, shop, lab or cubicle as an USAF MSgt or later as a civilian engineer, my career would be toast.

Remember, both in the military and civilian worlds concerning criminal and/or harassment offenses, the higher the rank, the less the consequences

When it comes to success at the higher ranks, there is a lot more forgiveness than at the middle manager level.  That said, if you take apart the language of the description of his antics, it seemed to be immature stuff and NOT sexual harassment or anything like that.  Additionally, no one accused him of retaliation for not liking his his actions and even though he told one complaintant that he would stop his silliness around her (as she wanted) she still quit.

While I have had a few senior leaders who were brilliant and inspirational, I have mostly had tyrants, milquetoast pushovers, or a combination of both.  I'd take this guy with his radioshow antics any day over some of the jerks and nobodies that had "led" my organization in recent years.


Username check out.

But seriously you are not that wrong.  In the list of crappy bosses and "leaders" I have met over the years this guy wouldn't even make the top 20.

Basically he just needs a sterner version of the talk I gave to one of my subordinates who was pulling similar crap years ago.

"Bob, that 100k you get paid each year for doing your job, it is also paying you to NOT do things.   One of those things you are paid NOT to do is tell dick jokes.  I assume you would like to continue to be paid to not tell dick jokes, so check yourself, next time you think of a really funny dick joke ask yourself; is it 100k a year funny?  If not keep it to yourself."