HR on the Warpath. Not pretty, and potentially dangerous. Like an elephant gone mad with no concern for damage inflicted on others or himself, this person is bent on destruction. 

Short Back story. 

Our client needed to hire someone who could be the director over several facilities. The position is new. We recruited several candidates. The candidate that they were interested in was currently making 125,000. 125,000 was the most this client wanted to…

Here's what happened next:

The VP of HR called me. She is,of course, a very professional and polite person. She knew the story because she had been included in the correspondence. Finally! I was talking to a professional adult. Things were looking up.

I didn't want to rehash the story, so basically I decided to ask if she would still like to hire EXEC3. I wanted to focus on something positive, and bring a happy conclusion to the…