In the movie “The untouchables” there was a scene where De Niro as Al Capone uses a baseball bat to correct a wrong. It was a very vivid moment in the movie but hey that kind of thing can only take place in the movies.
Well, I guess I am not the only one to have seen that movie as there was a real life manager who for a short while started to bring a baseball bat to his meetings as well. Timothy walking around with a baseball bat and patting it on his hand as went walked. The way he did it caused a bit of unease in both the internal and external staff.
This did cause quite a stir and the HR department probably added a new rule to the company manual – “baseball bats are prohibited from all company meetings”, as the baseball bat disappeared shortly from work shortly thereafter.