As I said, I found certain aspects of your testimony surprising. You seem to have no idea what your assistant does either before or after work, which country club he belongs to with certain lobbyists and so forth. That is quite surprising. You share certain details of everyday life with an assistant. For example, my assistant's son had a tough time when he got his shot yesterday. It is common practice to share that kind of information. Professional relationship or not, you still know a little bit about what is happening in your assistant's personal life. That is even part of the job. It is part of being a good manager.
You said you were not aware that he went to the same church as Mr. Mains or the same country club as Mr. Egan, or that he owned two companies. That is rather surprising. So in terms of managing your staff, you were pretty far removed from them. When it came to Mr. Ullyatt, you did not have a close employee-manager relationship. But we are not talking about some big company, you had just two employees.
Ms. Block, some odd things seemed to be happening in your office, but apparently, you were not aware of any of them. That leads me to wonder about a number of things. I will not go so far as to comment on your management style, which would not be very polite, but the fact that you are so disconnected from the personal lives of both of your employees is rather surprising to me.