Bunny Corcoran

As mentioned on my twitter updates - the b*tch from hell was sacked from our company yesterday. This came as a huge surprise to myself and most of my colleagues. We know she’s singularly awful. We knew that she was vile, reptilian and almost wholly loathed across the firm - but we didn’t think she’d be sacked.

In fairness, we don’t know for sure that she’s been sacked (i.e. she may have resigned under pressure). But she has left the company. Following a meeting with HR and the CEO yesterday late afternoon (when I was at my interview) she was escorted off the premises. Her email account, work mobile and swipe entry-card were simultaneously revoked and the security guards downstairs were told to throw her out if she attempted to re-enter the building. Our industry can be very much like that if you pi$$ off the powers that be; you end up out on your ear, quite literally.

Of course - she deserved it. In the 11 or so years I’ve been working I’ve never met anyone quite so venomous or who should so, so obviously never have been hired. You know how she was hired? Because the CEO had worked with her at his previous company! Meaning she bypassed the usual channels to get in - multiple interviews, psychometrics, personality tests, etc, etc. Those would have picked up how indecently unbalanced and borderline psychiatric she actually is.

So there we go. The mood in the office was quite upbeat as word began to spread. The email finally came out about 5.15pm. Extremely short and to the point.

She was a demon (her nickname was ‘Linda’ from The Exorcist) but that demon has now been exorcised.

How instrumental was I? I don’t know, I think my carefully worded and quite forceful email of last week provided a momentum that ended up pushing her out. I galvanised others to write to HR to document her behaviours (which people did) and that gave the powers that be the documentary backup they required.

With luck our paths will never again cross. In my 7 years of working in the industry I’ve very rarely seen anything quite like this (there was the middle-aged married man at my last company who was caught ‘cottaging’ in the company’s basement car park which is not too far off; there was also the senior partner who swiped another partner at a partners’ meeting on the continent that resulted in his instant dismissal). Thus I guess it does happen, it’s just been a while.

She reaped what she had sown. She had her comeuppance and justice was served. I’m happy.