Hypothetical ethical situation

I was discussing this ridiculous topic with a friend and thought I could have a few laughs on here

Say you have a trader called Bob at a desk at a bank/HF/prop shop and he brings in hundreds of millions for the firm and has an unparalleled ability to generate revenue and gain more clients.

However, he also has a few disgusting habits: He enjoys urinating in the trash can in full view of everyone, he enters in the morning screaming profanities at everyone and enjoys throwing computer monitors at the interns and other vulnerable employees. Also after every successful trade he takes someone's blackberry and throws it out of the window.

So what do we do about Bob? Obviously from an HR perspective this is unacceptable but he brings in a significant amount of the company's revenue stream and is not replaceable. This is completely hypothetical but what do we do about him if this were true?

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Get him to log onto WSO in a sockpuppet account and ask posters to complete your ethics assignment for you.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

Increase the percentage of compensation tied to peer reviews.

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