Intimidation, Humiliation and Abuse Means Control

On more occasions, than I care to remember, I have witnessed Gene Reed curse out an employee in an inhumane and abusive way.  No one ever deserved the intimidating, humiliating and abusive methods of management he used on so many occasions.  I have witnessed him do this to people that were very devoted to him.  I ask myself why we put up with this behavior and I do believe that it is intimidation that leads to control.  This man strived on interrupting his employees on their personal time just to let them know he had that control.  Over the years I got to the point of cringing at the sound of the phone ringing.  It did not matter what you were doing, because he would get upset if he could not get in touch with you.

One thing you did not want to here from Gene Reed was "I will accept your resignation.". This meant that he was going to do whatever he could do to intimidate, humiliate and abuse you to get you to resign.  Occasionally he would terminate someone with cause but he preferred a resignation.  If you really pissed him off, he would go to great lengths to see that you could not get another job.  I have witnessed calls he made to new employers of potential employers of those that left his employment.  He would go to great lengths to disparage the former employee.

Once during a hurricane, I set in my car on countless phone calls with Reed and a former girlfriend of his that left him after many years.  The purpose of the phone calls was intimidation and threats to punish this woman for leaving him.  He lost control of someone and this was not acceptable!

This man violated so many people's dignity with no regard for their basic rights.  In the early 90's a young, single mother in the cashier position apparently stole money.  He did not want to call the police until he got a confession.  He called the lady in his office for about an hour and came out with a written confession.  She never was offered her rights prior to the confession, according to the law, because he took the law into his own hands.  I can only imagine the tactics he used to obtain the confession.

Reeds favorite tool on many occasions was to use a personal tape recorder hidden in his office or attached to the phone.  This was to be used to entrap employees and girlfriends on many occasions.

Why did I stay?  I asked myself this question for years and still today.  I cannot give myself a responsible answer.  Mind control!!