[scantron]

The sender of this email seems to be upset because they let the receiver of this email walk all over them for so long. Publicly releasing this email makes both sides seem so unprofessional. The real lesson here is that this CEO’s lack of healthy boundaries prevented them from saying no—over and over again—to making obviously bad choices. I feel for this person’s employees.

[Spooky23]

Agreed. I don’t know anything about the players here, but I’m kind of surprised that a CEO would air a letter like this publicly, not only from the “dirty laundry” perspective, but because it comes off as really petty and ridiculous.

I’d expect this from some middle manager at a university.

[borroka]

Unpopular, but I agree. The writer comes off as terribly weak. I read about his personal and health challenges, but I think that would be an even bigger motivation not to let this deranged (according to the doc) board member going on with that circus.