Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits Microsoft cloud lieutenant Tom Keane is departing the megacorp where he has spent the past 21 years in various senior roles. He is heading for the exit a month after featuring in a report about the toxic culture among company execs. Keane, a corporate Vice President at Microsoft, started out in the Consulting Services division …
One former Microsoft exec claimed they'd seen Keane "reduce people to tears."
One place I worked I had an HR muppet say with a perfectly straight face "You cannot yell at anyone as that means the relationship is broken and that is bad" in response to being told that I only yelled at underlings who screwed up and then tried to cover up their actions.....
Yes, happy workplaces are nice but incompetents should expect to be yelled at if they don't admit to mistakes - they might not have been properly trained.......
I took a job only to find out that the guy I was replacing had died at work through a heart attack after being balled out by his raging manager, unfortunately said manager had created a process only he could manage and refused to hand over, so the firm turned a blind eye to his behaviour.
After I left (he was one of the reasons for doing so) he lambasted one of my former colleagues to the point where said colleague had a full on mental breakdown and I believe never returned to work there as a result.
That manager had serious anger issues and unfortunately back in the late 90's there was little in the way of company policies to protect employees from managers of this type - you either lived with it, moved on, or died at your desk...
"Yes, happy workplaces are nice but incompetents should expect to be yelled at if they don't admit to mistakes"
If you can't do that *without shouting* then your communication skills are lacking, you probably shouldn't be in the position you are, and you are a liability to the company, I'm afraid.
You sound exactly the sort of boss we read about on GlassDoor and the sort of boss I've sat through twice in HR meetings while someone from the exec team was present to fire them for staff abuse.
I've even sat through a legal trial where an employee had already begun legal proceedings to sue the manager for abuse and the company legal team had to try to calm things down as the company was looking at six figure threat looming 'cos of one manager of our team abused an employee for 12 months straight and the employee ended up having to have psychicatric treatment due to failed suicide attempt because of the abuse.
So you think driving employees to suicide is a good way to manage a team? I'll be sure to watch for you on GlassDoor!
One former Microsoft exec claimed they'd seen Keane "reduce people to tears."
What an asshole. I hope he'll get one day his reward for such an awful behaviour.
Is there no law in the US forbidding moral harassment at work?
OR was it warranted because the adult child employee screwed up something pretty important.
The is missing is the actual details/facts of what the situation was.
I've had employees who THINK they can dictate their work priority and tasks.
I had one employee (not my hire) actually leave work, without prior approval, to take his 3 year old to the movies. His excuse is his wife was going to give birth to their second child and they wanted to spend a special day of his 3 year old's first movie attendance. Our office is only open during the weekdays, so he clearly could have done this on any weekend.
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