Summarily firing Roberts over a personnel issue does not send the right message on how to handle personnel issues.  An outside investigator would have been a good thing.  Anyone who has managed women, however, knows how easy it is to encounter tears.  Tears alone do not indicate bad management.  However, to fire Roberts for seeking an outside check on the situation is poor management.  Unless Roberts really had it in for the subordinate.  The reporter did not choose to ask the others at the lottery for comment so we may never know who the bad guy or gal was.