A recent article on Campus Crest Communities, published at The Wall Street Transcript and Yahoo! Finance, provides some insight. Asked to discuss members of his leadership team, Rollins speaks glowingly about a man named Brian Sharpe. From the full version of the interview at Yahoo! Finance:
And then we have Brian Sharpe, who heads our construction company and makes the magic happen out in the field. He has, year after year, designed and improved our projects. He is the reason we have such great projects--anything from the details of the design, to integrating with our operations team to make our projects better every year, to actually delivering the projects each year. He is very passionate about what he does.
Sounds like Ted Rollins is pretty high on Brian Sharpe. But does that fit with reality?
Several current and former employees have filed federal lawsuits, alleging that Campus Crest practices rampant race and gender discrimination. Brian Sharpe appears to be in the middle of it. From a complaint filed by a former area manager named Nicole McAuliffe:
Sharpe, on a frequent and/or daily basis, used the term "f*ck" and "f*cking," in his verbal communications in the workplace. Sharpe further referred to women in the office as "cunts," "bitches" and "whores" and referred to Defendant's marketing team as the "whore's den." On more than one occasion, Sharpe, in the presence of Plaintiff and others, referred to Shannon King as a "c-word." On another occasion, while on the corporate jet with Sharpe and others, Sharpe made derogatory and misogynistic remarks about Heather McCormack, Defendant's Vice-President of Administrative Operations, calling her a "f*cking b*tch" and threatening to "rip her f*cking head off."
Ted Rollins says Sharpe is "passionate about what he does." Reality seems to tell us that Sharpe is passionate about calling women "cunts," "bitches," and "whores." His passion also drives him to openly state, in regards to one particular woman, that he wants to "rip her f*cking head off."
A reasonable person might decide that Brian Sharpe's "passion" is a little out of control. But not Ted Rollins.
He tells us that Sharpe is responsible for the design of Campus Crest's properties. Does that mean Sharpe was responsible for the "decorative" balcony that collapsed at The Grove complex near the University of North Texas? If so, how good of a designer is Mr. Sharpe? The three young men who went to the hospital after the balcony collapse probably would like to know.
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