I want you to understand that.

I don’t care if you were the man who fixes the printers.

“What I care about is that my sister needed something so badly that she hired a stranger with no record in eleven days to get it, and won’t say what it is.

That’s the whole of my interest in you.”

Here is what Ross Bramhall did over the following four months, and I want it laid out plainly because it is nearly always described as harassment and it was, procedurally, almost entirely correct.

In November he wrote to the lead independent director, a retired utilities executive named August Pell, requesting that the board’s nominating and governance committee review the adequacy of the company’s CEO succession plan.