Night Crawling Abomination caused more calls to ethics hotline than any issue

The company grapevine says so, and calls to the hotline got lies or insulting meaningless response. Hotline does not care what employees think and so it does not have any credibility, especially if the company wants to save face and not admit mistakes.

Beard and Merkin were right then that one author was dead, but now two authors are dead.

They were right that he really doesn't seem to care what people think, especially HR, but as generously pensioned as he is from the chemical industry, he doesn't need to care.

Does Hr get annoyed when local employees and visitors including managers get together with him?