The Metropolitan Water District's board is considering the findings of a 7-month investigation into accusations against top manager Adel Hagekhalil — a process that has revealed competing claims of discrimination and exposed deep divisions among the agency's leaders. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-24/metropolitan-water-district-adel-hagekhalil
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“Those who criticized Hagekhalil during the meeting included Rickita Hudson, the board’s executive secretary. She said that she has endured a “hostile work environment” and that the general manager’s “style is hostile.”
And this narrative dodges the possibility that it’s the employees who actually have been doing the transformative work.