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Comment by adverbly | Hacker News Reader

Totally agree.

Sounds like conflict management is not handled very well by anyone in these situations.The author certainly could have handled it better, and "Greg" should have handled it way better.

Very disappointing to hear, but at the same time these kinds of conflict are usually local and only affect a few individuals, so it is probably not very fair to describe the whole project and exec team as operating in this fashion.

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Management above Greg should have seen through Gregs behavior a long time ago and acted on it.

People like Greg are poison to a workplace, IMHO.

Naw, people that think they are always right and don't recognize other talented people are the poison.

I agree that management above Greg could have possibly identified his behavior and acted on it, but it might be reaching a bit to expect them to have done so... sometimes these individuals can be hard to identify and root out (for example I doubt that Greg would ever be so mean in front of his bosses).

Good on the author to bring this kind of stuff into the open though so that it hopefully happens less in the future. At least something went right lol!

Assuming "management above greg" are competent (not a stretch in a successful company) then they likely measure Greg on important things like effectiveness and retention. Not being mean in front of his bosses has little to do with that.

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