Should I have cracked down on team leader cad?

Byline: Lucy Kellaway

WHAT'S THE STORY? Should I have cracked down on team leader cad? Perhaps you quit too soon to find out. Be thankful that you work in the media rather than being at the mercy of it, writes WHEN I ran a division of a big media company a couple of years back, a member of staff came to me to say his team leader had stolen his girlfriend and that he couldn't work with him any more and that his colleagues were disgusted at this man's behaviour. I said I was sympathetic, but there was nothing I could or should do about it.

I subsequently left the company and thought no more about it until I read about the England football team manager sacking the captain, John Terry. I …