Sad indeed but "disciplinary process" covers a multitude of infractions. We will never know the facts but was help not in place to take him through the process?. Our company had an "Inhouse" employee counselor (funded and chosen by a joint group of unions and management who staff could utilize in private. Records of their visit were sealed and never made privy to either union or managment groups. To make sure that was the case, his office was located in a large shopping mall so no one who visited his office was in view of other company members. Records were kept on a private (note online) computer with no access outside that office. Worked well and saved quite a few.