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Fistul of Talent March Madness, Round Two

By Josh • March 9, 2009

Round two of the FOT March Madness blog challenge begins today. Just like before, using the widget below, vote on your favorite of the two blog posts in each game. I’m in game #21. Voting is open until noon (EST) on Wednesday.

As a little fairness in competition, here’s the blog post I’m up against HR Observations, and here’s the post I submitted to the competition . Would I like to win? sure. Will I be crushed if I don’t? no. Above all, do take some time and investigate all of the competitors.

If you’ve been wondering what HR, recruiting, sourcing, talent management etc blogs you should follow, there are some worthy ones in the bunch. To see the full list of original competitors, with links to their blog posts, go to FOT’s original post.

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  • chris
    4/1/2009

    Dear Sir or Madam:

    I just made my first visit to the new Boulder, CO store on 30th st. and was witness to first a verbal, then PHYSICAL attack on an employee by a manager that is clearly not cut out for supervision or social interaction. Although it is 4/1 (incident at ~2:10 MDT), this is not a joke - I have contacted Kelly and Susan in public relations as well, so please coordinate accordingly.

    The manager that verbally and PHYSICALLY assaulted the employee was wearing a red dress shirt, about 6ft tall, Caucasian and dark brown hair. Apparently there was an employee in back (on break) behind the CS desk that he wished to return to the floor. The manager appeared to be out of control as demonstrated by the frantic nature of the other two managers around him racing to the scene after the physical assault, to their obvious humiliation.

    Regardless of whether the employee was 'slacking', the manager's verbal tones and screaming loudly were far out of line in ever way. He was screaming at the employee to get back to work, repeating himself over and over, louder each time, despite the fact hat the two parties were only a few feet apart, and I was only ~8ft away. After not getting the overtly submissive action he was looking for, the manager then approached the employee after which, immediately throughout the front of the store customers could hear the employee cry out for the manger to stop physically assaulting him, for the manager to get his hands off of him. At that point two other managers ran toward the incident, bumping into one another and looking at me to see if I was witness to the outrageous behavior. Indeed I was. They were clearly humiliated and frantic.

    I am writing in support of the employee on several levels. Regardless of whether the employee was insubordinate or a 'slacker' the manager's verbal outrage and abuse was highly unprofessional and highly asocial - I felt fear, when really I should not have even been privy the conversation in the first place, but in this case I’m glad to support your employee. The manager's actions, before the physical assault ever took place should be enough to send the guy to the streets. It was very upsetting for me and as the employee waiting on me can testify (as will your security cameras), I was obviously nervous, torn and found it difficult to provide her with simple information such as my name and address for a rain check. The manager kept glancing at me and with each glance, I became increasingly afraid that he may lash next assault me for showing disapproving interest.

    I am a mid-30's professional and what I saw on my first visit to the Boulder store was the manager in red completely losing himself and his self-control. No one should be treated the way that this man treated your employee and I can't help but wonder how he treats other people outside of work. He clearly has a psychological malady. He severely abused his (retail) authority, which has clearly gone to his head. After the employee's cry out for the manager to discontinue physical assault, I realized the legal implications for Best Buy - you may very well be sued and this matter must pass through the Legal Department. I am offering my sworn testimony in support of the employee regardless of whether he presses charges. He should not lose his job because of this specific incident but the manager in red certainly should. Due to the violent nature of the outburst I very seriously found myself entering the sympathetic nervous reaction (“Fight or Flight”) in which I felt that I should enter the merchandise storage area behind the service desk and intervene and offer protection to the employee being physically assaulted.

    I cannot emphasize enough in this letter just how passionate and unleashed this manager became, he did not appear to be in control of himself and I feel that he may be a future threat to other employees and CUSTOMERS. Look for this incident to be posted in multiple public forums as well as sent to local media of management is not convinced by the wealth of evidence that the man should be swiftly dismissed.

    I can't say that I care to return to this floundering Best Buy after having made disapproving eye contact with the guy several times. On that note, I asked the girl helping me to let the management know that the man's behavior was far out of the acceptable social norm, and then there is the physical element which is prosecutable should the employee deem it necessary. With utmost sincerity and plenty of corporate experience myself, I hope that corporate Best Buy management will act swiftly to terminate the manager from future employment at any Best Buy Store. Meanwhile, be assured that I am pursuing this with fury as I am very much upset and outraged as Kelly or Susan in PR can verify. As I said, I have reported to Public Relations already and my campaign to keep you informed will continue until I know that the rabid manager is no longer a part of your organization, which until this point has involved mostly pleasant experiences. I don’t think it would be a wise decision for me to go back and confront the man about his public, social and professional behavior, but if you don’t, count on me doing it for you. I’d prefer to avoid such a stressful scene.

    Sincerely,
    hidden - ask susan or Kelly in PR

    P.S. As an active investor with common shareholder interests, I obviously take this matter seriously.
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