And yet, a lot of people who haven't known Callaway that long are calling her a bully, and coming up with credible evidence.
When you first brought this up, I just figured maybe one person was filling your ear. It's impossible for everyone to get along with everyone, and I'm sure this is no exception so I didn't think much of it. Now you're saying it's a lot of people. I don't expect you to tell your sources since you seem fine to make the claim for them, but I'm getting curious about this evidence.
More than one person, Jack, but , on reflection , the term "a lot" was pushing it. I've certainly seen one substantiated case , which really puzzled me ; also, TBH, i'd got the impression that Pyraxis had some hard evidence . But if it's only Hiro (plus her misgivings about Calloway's family relationships) I don't really count any of that. Otherwise , it's a few vague mutterings that might be based on mistaken identity, misubderstanding or whatever. (I've been called a bully myself, on occasion, so I know how easy it is for people to get the wrong impression. Actually, those occasions could nearly all be traced back to actual bullies making pre-emptive strikes by quietly spreading poison by PM . I wouldn't be surprised if Calloway had similar problems)
It's not like I've been rooting around for dirt on Calloway, with a view to calling her out. Far from it. I just stumbled on some stuff, and i definitely don't want to call her out. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of explanation., irrespective of wehether I ever get to know that explanatibn or not. I might go over details with Calloway, in private, if she wantedt, but i'm not about to try to demonise her, nor resurrect old issues that woul;ld only cause pain for all concerrned. (I checked back with source about that) . I sympathise with all protagonists on this one.
Here's what I don't get: why does this come up now? Everyone involved is gone.
Odeon, I think you mght have been talking to Pyraxis there? In the instance I'm refering to, it's not that everybody's gone, so I'm being extremely careful not to offer any clues re. identity. This post has been extremely difficult for me, because I keep scratching out a good half of what I want say, for that reason.
Pyraxis was posting to back me up, presumably. That's why I don't like quibbling with her on this. But I think it reflects far too badly on Calloway if you only hear Pyraxis non-representative view about the Hiro affair. The board were aware of her views at the time, and she was in a clear minority. I don't see any value in raking that over again. Not least because Pyraxis last post about it contained a detail that I'd clean forgotten in the very-long-interim, so we'd be walking on very shaky ground.
I'd like to add that not only does nobody (that I know of) want to make a public issue of this; the victiim waasn't even attacking Calloway behind her back, not even naming Calloway, just discussing own resulting problems. Calloway's name emerged from the records, to my immense surprise.
That's one reason why I responded to McJ's enquiry like I did. Mc J can be one heckova a bully when he's sure he's in the right.
It occured to me that this thread might wind up looking like some kinfd of bullies' club , from a certain perspective. (heck the whole damned board looks like a bullies club at times, doesn't it?)
So, all those glowing character references that emerged following my post, were exactly what I hoped to see. So as to put things into their proper perspective, and demonstate the real reason why we all miss Calloway so much. I put that in bold because that's the one good thing that's emerged from my post, and I think it's important. I had other motivations (as stated) , but I'm far from sure it was such a good idea from other points-of-view.
I'm beginning to think that , in all likelihood, no substantial allegations are gonna emerge from the woodwork, now , or ever, because there are no substantial allegations, only instances of Calloway hitting back too hard (debatably) . At present I'm feling relieved about that...and somewhat embarrassed for inadvertently blowing it up bigger than it actually is. But hey! I shall be all-too-happy to stay embarrassed, if that's how it goes.
-Walkie