Hear No Evil, See No Evil had been within Ground Zero’s immediate chain of supervision for many years—close enough to have responsibilities connected to his work and the environment around it. The codename describes the response we’ll examine here: what happened when concerns became known to someone positioned to address them.
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While the description of the character could ultimately describe multiple people in management, for the purposes of this post, we are discussing the person closest to Ground Zero within that management structure. Hear No Evil, See No Evil held a direct supervisory position over him for many years. His place in this cast of characters comes from both that responsibility and what he did with it.
He knew for years about the behavior and the working environment described in the post about Ground Zero, yet took no steps to stop it. As a direct supervisor, he was positioned to address the conduct and the conditions around it. Instead, he chose to ignore or outright allow the behavior, so it and the environment continued.
That is the role Hear No Evil, See No Evil plays in this story: someone whose supervisory responsibility placed him close to the problem, whose knowledge extended over years, and whose response was inaction. The question is what that inaction meant for the cast and staff who continued to work in that environment.
Granted, there may have been resistance further up the organizational structure to taking action. We’ll explore that possibility and the dynamics behind it when we get to the Archie Bunker character.
But that won’t be the next post. Next up is Gatekeeper—a minor character whose role had much deeper implications for the Park. And yes, that verb tense is intentional.
–S.
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