Dear Mr. Tremblay, We are issuing you this letter of reprimand to detail the history of these events and our actions, as they exist in the record submitted to the court.
On march 14th, at a firm event at Dave & Busters you were said by several employees to have displayed signs of intoxication including slurred speech, impaired movement and spilled wine on your shirt. On this occasion you also referred to a coworker as a “fucking Celtics fan”, and were otherwise abrasive. As the firm maintains a strict standard of conduct for all company events, you were invited to an interview with H.R. At this interview You did not deny any account of your behavior and expressed regret. You agreed to take action to improve the quality of your conduct, and you agreed to enter conflict resolution if necessary. When asked if there was anything you could think of that may have impacted your work negatively, you said you didn’t know. When asked if you frequently had an unhealthy use of alcohol, you said you didn’t know. When asked if you felt any ill will towards your coworkers, you said you didn’t know. When asked if there was anything the firm could do to improve your disposition, you said you didn’t know. Finding your apology for the incident sufficient, we offered you three days of additional sick leave, and invited you to a voluntary meeting with HR to discuss these issues at a later date, should you choose.
After returning from your sick leave you said you spent some time in New Mexico, and that you were feeling well. You reported having had some time to reflect on your behavior, and said that you were generally feeling much better.
On May 19th, an employee expressed further concern about your behavior. She said that during a lunch break you told her you “hate this place”, “hate all these people”, and “don’t really like work very much”. Due to this you were made to attend a meeting with an HR representative. At this meeting you were combative and stubborn, and you expressed little willingness to resolve the issue. When asked if the comments made were honest, you said you didn’t know. When asked why you made them, you said you didn’t know. When asked if you felt you needed more time to work on your behavior issues with HR, you said you didn’t know. You then agreed to leave for the rest of the day and return to work in a better state of mind. Upon returning to work the following day, your supervisor reported no need for you to attend a further counseling session.
On may 21st, you were brought into a conflict resolution session with another employee. This employee had complained about the volume of music played at your desk. You retorted that his language was abusive and threatening. You had reported him to say “My Chemical Romance fucking sucks”, “If I have to go through another day of this i’m going to snap all the fuck over you”, and “go back to eighth grade, you fucking goth pansy”. Although we inquired, there were no other witnesses to corroborate these statements.
These incidents, though of absolutely no fault of yours, we want to stress, represented a pattern. We love you, as we do all of our employees in an appropriate way, and generally wish you the best. We discussed your problems with an old friend of ours over some rosemary tea. She agreed that your ills appeared to be self esteem related. After a nostalgic visit with our freshman psych professor upstate, our mind was made up: that your full recovery was not just in our mutual interest, but our responsibility.
We made a careful survey of your living environment and home life. Your relationships and material consumption were carefully cataloged. On june 10th, after you had made some selfish and unwise sexual decisions, we learned that your girlfreind of six months was planning on leaving you. It became our charge to confront her on this decision on your behalf. We decided to perform our intervention in a public place, and located her in a grocery store parking lot. We explained the delicate state of your emotional development, and made her understand that this was not the right time for this decision, as the impact on your workplace performance would be significant. As she was predictably resistant to this reasoning, we were forced to make a number of grisly and visceral threats, ultimately winning her tentative compliance.
Although the relationship would ultimatly sour before the end of the summer despite our wishes, we like to think that our actions placed the timing of its demise at a place that was better for you to accept psychologically, as you were entering the fall then, and synergistically the fall of your life, not a green shoot thwarted by the summer happenstance, trampled irreverently in a young garden, but a marred survivor of that fitful period, steeled toward the shrinking days with a cohesive and memorable account of past relationships. In this way, rather then viewing yourself as a chronically thwarted, miscreated citizen in anomie of his own purpose , you would have at least a tentative understanding of yourself as a sexual being. Even if this would be a meager conception, we thought it would still make you now ready to learn the news of your child.
This Interview was prepared with special attention. We invited a volunteer from a local wiccan group to be participate, in order to provide an earthly and, if possible, motherly aspect to the session. We also purchased several lamps to give the room more comfortable lighting, and baked an assortment of items that we hoped would give you comfort. It was in this setting that we began to reminiss about your early days with us as a highly paid intern. You were a recent graduate from a toptechnical school, would work a minimum of 60 hours a week, and identified strongly with your department. The near nightly bar visits were thick with comraderie, and doused in liquor. like many nerds, you had not learned to drink moderately at a younger age, so in your now socially accelerated state, you imbibed to excess. Older hands at the firm would trade quiet smirks about you and your lot as a rowdy gang of swashbucklers in the peak of their lives, All of your darkened and reddened morning eyes hung on the office like Christmas ornaments, and the legends of the crew’s debauchery were strung through the break room chatter like pine garlands: Cheerfull decorations to us, holding effigy of those more energetic and optimistic days our backs ached to remember. Unbeknownst to you, lost in this blurred cacophony of young professional life, a pregnancy had occurred, to which you were attributed. We spoke to the young woman at length. She did not want you to know about the baby, as she did not care for you. She felt you were brash, insensitive, and humorless, she went on at length about the depth to which your conversations disgusted her, made her queasy with their collusion of boredom and cruelty. When we asked here if she thought you might be capable of raising a child, she uttered a series of grunts and half-cusses culminating in the word “trainwreck”, then rested her head on the table.
As the young woman was fearful of the medical risks of an operation, and felt she could not fully commit to raising the child herself, we arranged to adopt it. We felt it best that the breezes and grasses of the high meadow take charge of the princely marshmallow, so that it may be raised in natural majesty, and not be corrupted by the chronic alienation of our corporate culture. In the most innocent of surroundings is where we left it: on a shimmering day of spring, as dew drops burst into tiny sprigs of heat under sunlight, and legions of ants were busy at sorting the detritus left by winter tantrums, we took a short time to eat an idylic picnic lunch of dried figs and olive tapenade with rye flatbread. We delighted for some time in the baby’s soft giggling, its skin cradled in the gentle bosom of that mountain, before dawning our microfiber pancho’s and beating a sensible retreat.
This news did not come well to you. Your depression following the session became deeper than any we had ever witnessed, and your work had taken the quality of a half-awakened afterthought. This was unnaceptable, and so we petitioned for your dismissal. We wished you well on your future endevors, gathered all the needed contracts of severance, and made a cordial offer of letters of recommendation, to any organization of your choosing.