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“Owning it” only counts when it costs you something.
USCC was warned that more cases would surface around a particular repeat bully and discriminator.
A two-year record of actionable complaints wasn’t enough for them apparently.
Now, more have surfaced. Two makes a trend. Three makes a pattern. Beyond that, are they cultivating a teflon class of bully?
Any other bank would have given a warning so stark after offense number one that it wouldn’t have gone unchecked for years onward.
Companies claim to assess each case individually. But that’s a shield—it lets them ignore the pattern and avoid admitting the abuse is systemic.
But abuse is never a one-off. Those who abuse don’t do it once; it is compulsive, repeated. When we put individuals who lie and manipulate into positions of power, we aren’t just making a bad hire—we are actively endangering everyone exposed to them.
When leadership replaces facts and the performance of a process designed to yield no findings, they are betting that the buzz from curated press releases and PR stunts will drown out reality.
Why does leadership look the other way? Why must those who report abuse be silenced and dismissed?
Because truth threatens what leadership is desperately trying to protect: their success narrative.
True leadership isn’t about managing the optics of a toxic environment; it’s about eliminating it.
You cannot train away a predatory mindset.
If your commitment to accountability vanishes the moment it costs you something, it isn’t accountability at all.