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Message: [QUOTE="Puppy Love, post: 4310088, member: 8101"] Passing the buck is typical in business, too. I had a really abusive manager at work. These were all senior people, high up the management chain. I put up with it for a couple of years until it started to severely impact my life outside of work. Finally went to the next level manager and told them in detail how this person treated employees and why people were leaving. To my surprise, they acknowledge the problem and said they had been aware of it for a while. They said ‘please be patient we are working on it’. About two weeks later, the abusive manager and the entire team were transferred to another division. “Working on it“ turned out to mean that they were figuring out how to pass the buck on the problem. I got a really huge raise, presumably as compensation for putting up with it. It didn’t make me stay though, I quickly found another job in the company in a completely different group. The manager finally got what they had coming. They got fired about a year later when they finally did something so egregious that management couldn’t look the other way anymore. I think that colleges put up with it for many of the same reasons businesses do. They don’t want the offending employee to sue them, and they don’t want the bad publicity. It’s just easier to pass the buck and pretend that real people aren’t being hurt. [/QUOTE]