Randy Lee pleads guilty

DaveMatthew

Bring in Peter
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i sincerely doubt that. Claiming we fired him becaue of public outrage rather than his actions?

It's a pretty reasonable assumption to make.

June 1st - Randy Lee charged
June 2nd - Ottawa releases this statement:

"We are aware that Randy Lee, our assistant general manager, was charged with the violation of “Harassment”. A violation is a non-criminal offence. This event took place on Wednesday evening in Buffalo, N.Y. He pled not guilty and was released on his own recognizance. A pre-trial conference is set for Monday morning.”

Pretty easy to read into how serious they took the accusations with that statement.

Melnyk then hired him a lawyer, who echoed that Lee did nothing wrong, and the team said nothing until June 15th after Ruszkowski started.

That was after 2 weeks of public pressure.

On June 15th he was suspended, and didn't "resign" until August 21st.

The team couldn't have dealt with it more poorly.
 

solidprospect

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It's a pretty reasonable assumption to make.

June 1st - Randy Lee charged
June 2nd - Ottawa releases this statement:

"We are aware that Randy Lee, our assistant general manager, was charged with the violation of “Harassment”. A violation is a non-criminal offence. This event took place on Wednesday evening in Buffalo, N.Y. He pled not guilty and was released on his own recognizance. A pre-trial conference is set for Monday morning.”

Pretty easy to read into how serious they took the accusations with that statement.

Melnyk then hired him a lawyer, who echoed that Lee did nothing wrong, and the team said nothing until June 15th after Ruszkowski started.

That was after 2 weeks of public pressure.

On June 15th he was suspended, and didn't "resign" until August 21st.

The team couldn't have dealt with it more poorly.
People get charged with things all the time though, it's not until time goes by that everyone learns more about what happened. Simply firing him for being charged for something isn't right because you don't know what happened and you don't know if the person was guilty or not.

i don't know what Lee told Melnyk and company, but it seems like it wasn't the same as him pleading guilty several months later.
 

DaveMatthew

Bring in Peter
Apr 13, 2005
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People get charged with things all the time though, it's not until time goes by that everyone learns more about what happened. Simply firing him for being charged for something isn't right because you don't know what happened and you don't know if the person was guilty or not.

i don't know what Lee told Melnyk and company, but it seems like it wasn't the same as him pleading guilty several months later.

When one of your employees is arrested and charged while traveling for work related purposes, the first thing you do is suspend him and begin an investigation. You still pay him, but you tell him to stay home and cut off his access to the organization as you gather the facts. That's HR 101.

You don't welcome him back, put out a statement that minimizes the allegations and hire him a lawyer.

And then suspend him 15 days later.
 

solidprospect

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Sep 30, 2017
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When one of your employees is arrested and charged while traveling for work related purposes, the first thing you do is suspend him and begin an investigation. You still pay him, but you tell him to stay home and cut off his access to the organization as you gather the facts. That's HR 101.

You don't welcome him back, put out a statement that minimizes the allegations and hire him a lawyer.

And then suspend him 15 days later.
Fair enough, if that's actually what happened.
 

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