Racists in court office worked to undermine Arroyo the elder, report says

Herald: " “racial name-calling” became a problem after he hired minority employees, according to an exhaustive internal report obtained by the Herald."
You think black workers were doing racial name calling because he hired Latinos? I suppose it's possible but all stories leading up to this make it clear it was white workers.

Bosguy22, did you actually read the Globe article? Or conveniently didn't read this part?

"Older, white employees became resentful when Arroyo hired staffers of color who spoke second languages to work at the front desk and help visitors, many of whom are immigrants, Nesi found.
“There is no doubt that there were issues of racial name-calling and that there were racial tensions in the office, especially after new employees, who were minorities, were hired by Register Arroyo,” Nesi wrote."

"Arroyo was elected in 2014, defeating Patricia Campatelli, who allegedly assaulted an employee after a holiday party. ..An investigator found that Campatelli worked only 15 hours a week and spent much of it taking smoking breaks, playing scratch tickets, looking at East Boston real estate on the Internet, and doing puzzles."

It did't happen because I didn't hear or see it happen and no one has cell phone video.

He was put on paid leave, which is what one does in a situation like this. As I've been recently bitching about in another post on Adam's website, the reason you put someone on leave during an investigation rather than removing them outright is to prevent a possibility like this, where the subject of the investigation is ultimately cleared.

Moreover, whoever he would sue would have to mount a strong defense, meaning everything and anything would come out.

No, he should accept that the judiciary has his back, take the lessons learned from the classes they made him take, and run for reelection. I'll vote for him, unless he makes this into more of a mess. As for the rest, they should be put on notice, then progressive discipline begins, which can lead up to termination.

Reprobate Department.

He was elected not appointed. It is easy to say we should elect someone with more information about the Probate Court, but that isn't who the people wanted.

That is office is a disaster, everyone knows it. It shouldn't have been a secret to Arroyo, but being the clean-up person is challenging for any management person.

I don't understand how anyone can doubt that he was treated differently because of racism. His predecessor had to give someone a black eye before her ridiculous behavior was interrupted.

The Trial Court needs to take responsibility for the people they hired and train them correctly.

And really reliable.

Thanks for whitesplaining, fishy. Whatever would we do without your ill-informed perspective from an old white guy about what it is like to not be white?

Clerks and registrars have a great deal of power over the citizens that are subject to the court. It is a unique and considered issue to elect people to a position that requires understanding of the law, but allowing the state government to appoint a probate registrar may not serve the residents of that county.

That being said, when ask for this kind of job and get it, you should know that day one you need to wrangle a bunch of existing employees that you don't have the power to replace at will. The only thing harder is the ones that fire everyone and reinvent the wheel.

The voters need to take responsibility for asking candidates for their plan to manage their employees.

I'm betting that the staff he inherited likely included some, probably many, pure patronage hires as well.

No wonder the old white guys were so upset. That sort of thing could give state government a bad name.