I have some sympathy with Alan. If employees didn’t have such clouded judgement, one can only surmise that his remuneration (‘luck’?) may have been so much greater and maybe a dollar of profit might have been able to have been made during his tenure.
Clearly that embarrassing and appalling demonstration of bullying and managerial ineptitude has ruffled sequinned feathers in some way or the thread wouldn’t have been removed. This would suggest it was indeed genuine. What a disgraceful performance.