A senior OPM official called a subordinate a “hot blonde” in his previous job at the Pentagon. He told another woman who worked for him he “hoped some studly guy would be rubbing oil on her back at the beach.” He used the n-word in a staff meeting.
acting comptroller Douglas A. Glenn — which investigators said included drinking with subordinates during work hours at least twice without authorization, in violation of Pentagon policy — happened as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin promised to eradicate racism and sexual misconduct in the military and President Biden pledged to advance racial equity in the federal government.
Glenn did not return messages left at his home and on his cellphone. In the report, Glenn denied intentionally creating a hostile work environment even as he acknowledged that a number of the allegations against him were true. “Mr. Glenn told us that his subordinates might have misinterpreted what he said as sexually suggestive, but his comments were ‘not intended that way in any way, shape, or form,’” the report found.
After working in the Interior Department, Glenn joined the Defense Department as assistant deputy chief financial officer in December 2018. He was promoted to deputy chief financial officer in December 2020, then was elevated to acting comptroller from January through April of 2021. Before leaving for OPM, he had returned to the deputy role.The comptroller is the defense secretary’s principal adviser for budgetary and fiscal matters.
In one incident at a large staff meeting in February 2021, investigators say Glenn acted against the advice of two subordinates when he questioned the motives of people whom former president Barack Obama described in a 2013 speech on his experiences of racism. Obama recalled hearing people lock their car doors as he walked past their vehicles.
Glenn “stated that his performance rating for that time period was ‘Exceeds Fully Successful,’ leading him to believe that nobody complained to his supervisor about his all-hands comments,” the report said. “One subordinate … was alarmed, appalled, and offended that Mr. Glenn thought it was okay to use the n-word,” the report found.The inspector general also substantiated, through multiple witnesses, concerning comments Glenn made about female colleagues and subordinates. One recounted that Glenn told her that if he could line up all the women in the office, they would not look as good as she did. Another female employee said Glenn referred to her as a “hot blonde” at an out-of-office happy hour.
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