I mean, this is story of management incompetence basically. This has much less to do with person nit accepting criticism or being outright sociopath/psychopath. This has to do with management not knowing how to fire people, keep paperwork and getting scared when the word layer is used.
It is hard to prove racism or sexist discrimination. It is just not easy at all and you need more then assertion.
I left out a great deal of detail. We had documentation. We closely work with an HR lawyer, and consulted with her extensively about this individual long before firing him.
We didn’t get “scared” of his lawyer. Lawsuits are distracting and expensive for both sides even if the allegations are baseless, and we avoided one in this case by just offering a bit of a larger severance than we originally offered.
It is hard to prove racism or sexist discrimination. It is just not easy at all and you need more then assertion.