''Once he'd threatened to punch me out
I kept telling him, 'Mate, step up to the plate,''' Piepers said. ''I don't get threatened like that and take it lying down.''
But ''lying down'' is exactly how Hadley's juniors endure his bullying. Hadley's behaviour has been protected for decades by successive management teams at 2UE and now 2GB.
In 2001, 2UE was owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting. It is now owned by Fairfax Media.
Last month Hadley's bullying was exposed in newspapers after a younger colleague secretly recorded one of Hadley's vicious tirades on his phone.
Managing director Rob Loewenthal suspended the top-rating host for the bullying incident, but instead of accepting his punishment Hadley called his friend John Singleton, the network's majority owner, who overruled Loewenthal's decision and ensured the broadcaster remained on air.
Since reporting the story, Fairfax Media has been contacted by more than a dozen of Hadley's current and former colleagues. Most spoke off the record because they fear retribution. According to numerous sources, Hadley often demands employees be fired for mistakes as minor as mispronouncing a suburb's name or misreading a football score. This is why Piepers has decided to speak out. ''Hadley's been allowed to get away with this for so long,'' he said. His account has been confirmed by former 2UE host Mike Carlton and three others who worked at the station at the time.
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