[mikecmpbll]

This would be more of a story if the ruling went the other way. Someone threatens to kill people at work and loses his job, no shit. Imagine working with that person after you've had quite a specific and calculated death threat from that individual, completely impossible.

Some situations are just unfortunate, but that doesn't mean they're unjust.

[busterarm]

When I worked remotely, I had a coworker that was hard to deal with (with everyone) and openly threatened in logged work chat to come to my house and shoot me in the face.

Over nothing.

He still works there. I don't. Jerknuts would flip out to HR over every minor grievance but was completely immovable from a team where everyone (including his boss) hated him. HR did nothing about his threats (which were to more than just me). Did nothing about his consistent efforts to undermine his boss and the work of the team. Did nothing about him deliberately misleading and trolling his coworkers and _our customers_.

[tokenadult]

HR is a net loss to that company, it appears. Fire HR and just hire a consulting firm to handle the company's HR tasks.

[busterarm]

They fired HR and hired all new HR when they laid off 30% of the company :)