"Shattered Glass": Empathizing with Chuck Lane

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I empathized with Chunk Lane for working with colleagues who did not like him. After the firing of Editor Michel Kelly, Lane was promoted to the new position despite being disliked by the staff (Baumgarten, Christensen, Hirsch, & Merims, 2004). I understand how it feels to work with juniors who dislike someone since they are likely to sabotage one's efforts to achieve a major goal. Additionally, I empathize with Lane for being torn between firing and suspending Glass when he discovered that the writer relied on the particular sources for information and had only falsified his first-hand experiences to make the story appear better. At this moment, Lane knows that Glass has established a reputation as a successful writer in the organization. Hence, I understand why Lane hesitates to fire Glass but instead opts to suspend him.
I admire Lane for his effort to investigate to establish the claims against Glass. As an editor, Lane did not take the accusations against Glass at face value but instead took time to establish the truth. Lane could have gone ahead without investigating the claims to suspend or fire Glass. Instead, Lane engaged in a conference call with the Forbes staff, who had highlighted the story as fabricated. Lane further seeks to protect Glass from the rest of the staff and proceeds to visit where the story is alleged to have taken place (Baumgarten et al., 2004). After Lane discovers that the story was falsified and re-reads Glass' previous stories and establishes that they were also falsified, he decides to fire the writer.
I identified with Lane where he was forced to suspend Glass instead of firing him because of the writer's capacit...