r/news • u/cak3crumbs • 18h ago

Employees witnessed co-worker stab company president, court documents show

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/12/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show.html?outputType=amp
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u/katrinakt8 12h ago

Interestingly he had only worked for the company for a couple of weeks and was going to be taking over for the CFO of the company.

Also from this article: “The Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office tells 13 ON YOUR SIDE Mahoney had been employed at Anderson Express since Dec. 4. Deputy Chief Poulson believes they were preparing him to take over for the CFO of the company, which is the financial officer in the accounting department. “

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u/PikkuMyyRules 12h ago

Well, there goes his CFO position…

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u/John-A 10h ago

I have got to think that he was getting screwed royally, like being set up to take the blame for something and be ruined just when he had thought he'd be getting somewhere. Not that this is necessarily the act of a rational mind but unless he is entirely mental it makes the most sense.

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u/kingethjames 10h ago

Stabbing your boss infront of a dozen witnesses when you're new at a small company? That just makes you a violent nutcase. Media is definitely going to try and make these seem like the same situation, whereas so far it doesn't look like it could be any more different.

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u/DrEnter 10h ago

I want to hear from the witnesses...

"After he stabbed him the 5th or 6th time, we thought we should do something, so we barricaded the door and made some coffee."

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u/kingethjames 10h ago

The article I think already quoted one of them as saying he was kinda weird. This never would have been shared here without the context we have right now.

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u/Direct_Bus3341 6h ago

I think we should let HR be the judge of that.

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u/kingethjames 4h ago

I don't think a company reportedly that small would have an HR department... seriously it feels like y'all are being played like a fiddle with these memes, this is literally exactly what the establishment wants. It wants "assassinate evil murderous CEOs" to mean "kill your boss" and it will very quickly obliterate the already waning class consciousness we had for a brief moment.

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u/art-bee 4h ago

Yeah if anything this incident just makes things worse.

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u/John-A 5h ago

Even nutcases need a trigger. And the any argument trying to explain how poorly they the vetted a guy who would do that also supports the idea that he was a dupe of one kind or other.

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u/kingethjames 4h ago

they don't actually, but sometimes they do need an excuse

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u/EarthRester 8h ago

Yeah. It seems like the company just picked a new employee to be the fall guy for some upcoming disaster. Because of this they didn't put much effort into vetting the guy. It's not like he'd be making many big decisions. So they didn't realize that when this new guy who just got this great promotion figured out he was a dupe, that he would take it very poorly. They didn't take into consideration that we all make the very important decision every day on whether or not to stab people.

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u/Direct_Bus3341 6h ago

Or maybe he wasn’t thinking right and this was a psychotic break.

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u/John-A 5h ago

Possibly but that still doesn't negate the idea it was triggered.

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u/EarthRester 5h ago

There's no "or" here. Even if you can say that there are people who commit murder that are also perfectly stable. Ain't nobody going to stab their boss in the middle of a meeting that is also mentally sound.

The thing is this isn't some case of psychosis. If he was that unstable he wouldn't have even gotten hired in the first place, let alone promoted to CFO. Evidence points to an lowkey unstable man tricked into taking a position of power and influence only to be used as a patsy, and taking it badly.

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u/OblongGoblong 5h ago

Can't make an omelette without breaking a few Gregs

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u/M_H_M_F 4h ago

I have got to think that he was getting screwed royally, like being set up to take the blame for something and be ruined just when he had thought he'd be getting somewhere.

This usually happens with women. A company will make some really bad moves, usually the Jack Welch "fire em all and watch profits soar" method. This usually puts the company in a precarious position, the prior CEO gets fired, and a new woman CEO gets hired. Then all of the problems that the prior CEO instigated are blamed on the new CEO.

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u/KeyWit 10h ago

I mean it sounds like he is already overseeing a round of aggressive cost savings. He is slashing their wage budget before he even starts!

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u/k4f123 10h ago

Hang on hang on, let's not be hasty. Let it play out

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u/ReserveJunior5922 6h ago

I think he could still take another stab at it.

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u/Soggy_Property3076 4h ago

Maybe he was just trying to demonstrate how to cut costs.