Greg Johnston on Mike Rinder

As a production supervisor, Greg observed Mike Rinder’s treatment of his staff as “abusive,” while Rinder himself routinely slept on the job.

TRANSCRIPT:

I worked with Mike probably for about a year, maybe a little bit more. I worked as a production supervisor. There were multiple occasions where I would walk into the office and look at the desk and he was asleep. He was gone.

You’ll walk in and—then make it seem like he was working. Because you know that he might, he, you, I was aware of the fact that he was aware of the fact that I would have observed that. So then he will stir and then come to and then, you know, I guess you could say, pretend as though he is working. So that wasn’t one or two instances, that was multiple, that was, those were, there were times where that would occur—multiple times I would say.

Mike’s method of getting people to produce was really to, you could say, invalidate them, demoralize them. It wasn’t helpful. It didn’t spawn enthusiasm. It didn’t encourage someone to do a better job on their posts. The theory would have been to sort of beat them into getting products, which isn’t going to work and didn’t work.

So “arrogant” is a light statement in that regard, because it’s the activity or the action that was done to those people that pushed them down. So yes, arrogant, but it was more than that. That’s abusive.