I’m assuming there is nobody reading this post who believes the following conduct is ethical, or that it isn’t justification for being fired.
The Nashville-based hardcore band Llorona ( named after a ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning the children she drowned in a jealous rage) announced that it had fired its lead singer Diego after he admitted putting estrogen in the protein powder used by the band’s bass-player Sixx before his work-outs. This caused him to begin suffering various physical problems such as stomach ulcers, weight loss, muscle weakness and fatigue, as well as “notable mental changes” and other developments that Sixx described as too disgusting to describe. Worst of all, he began annoying his band mates by describing himself as “they.”
Okay, I made up that last part. Actually, the band members already used “they” to describe the bassplayer.
Llorona announced the firing for cause in a series of posts on the band’s Instagram account , which has now disappeared. “We have decided to part ways with our vocalist Diego due to admission of very disturbing and concerning behavior towards one of our band members and their partner,” the group said. “He has admitted to being obsessed with said partner, and has been attempting to sabotage their relationship by cutting pre-workout he frequently gifts from his job with high amounts of estrogen in them. He has been attempting to force a transition onto him for the last 5 months, in hopes that would give him the opportunity to ‘swoop in’ once he looked stronger and more manly in comparison. (Stupid cave man mindset that makes zero sense)…This tampering has caused confusion in thousands of dollars in medical bills the past months, trying to figure out what’s wrong.”
Diego got drunk and confessed in a series of texts. Incidentally, the construction in that Instagram message partially explains 1) why I have never used Instagram and 2) why these guys ended up as rock musicians. “This tampering has caused confusion in thousands of dollars in medical bills the past months, trying to figure out what’s wrong” is one of the most illiterate sentences I’ve encountered in a long time.
I’m almost certain that I’ve seen the “jealous rock singer tries to turn his rival into a girl” plot in a movie or somewhere else.
Ethics Alarms 
Puts new meaning into the phrase sex drugs and rock and roll. Welcome to 2024.
So he essentially poisoned his bandmate. He belongs in jail.
“This tampering has caused confusion in thousands of dollars in medical bills the past months, trying to figure out what’s wrong” is one of the most illiterate sentences I’ve encountered in a long time.
Not Shakespeare, certainly, but if you substitute “and” for “in” it makes a lot more sense. Maybe whoever wrote it was dictating and the software didn’t hear him, or them, I guess, correctly?
As to the topic, that’s just bizarre.
Who was trying to figure out what’s wrong? The tampering? The bills?
Agreed, even with substituting “and” for “in” the sentence is still poorly constructed: “This tampering has caused confusion and thousands of dollars in medical bills the past months, trying to figure out what’s wrong”.
To make sense of it, you need to remove the comma. “This tampering has caused confusion and thousands of dollars in medical bills the past months trying to figure out what’s wrong” .
Now it’s clearer that whoever spent the thousands in medical bills did so to try to figure out what was wrong. As they said in the first clause, the tampering has caused confusion. Their writing seems to be an ample demonstration of that.
I don’t know why so many people these days insist on inserting so many unnecessary commas, particularly when they corrupt the meaning of their prose, but that’s just the horror of the world we live in today.
I agree, it’s a typo; correcting “and” for “in” makes it clear the medical bills for doctor visits to diagnose the symptoms.
An earlier sentence though is damn near inpenetrable:
“He has admitted to being obsessed with said partner, and has been attempting to sabotage their relationship by cutting pre-workout he frequently gifts from his job with high amounts of estrogen in them.”
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Yeah, that one was a doozy. Anybody want to take a stab at diagramming it?
Yeah, I think I can make sense of it.
“He has admitted to being obsessed with said partner, and has been attempting to sabotage their relationship by cutting pre-workout he frequently gifts from his job with high amounts of estrogen in them.”
Put in the word “supplements” after “pre-workout”, and change “gifts” to “gets” and it’s somewhat clearer:
“He has admitted to being obsessed with said partner, and has been attempting to sabotage their relationship by cutting pre-workout supplements he frequently gets from his job with high amounts of estrogen in them.”
Pretty careless writing, to be sure, but maybe that’s just one more side effect of having your pre-workout supplements spiked with estrogen.
Well, these two paragraphs weren’t very articulate, either:
“Diego allegedly admitted to putting estrogen into the protein powder to make Sixx more feminine so he could try and steal their partner by looking more manly.” (emphasis added).
and
“’We have decided to part ways with our vocalist Diego due to the admission of very disturbing and concerning behavior towards one of our band members and their partner,” the band said in a note on Instagram[.]” (emphasis added).
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We could play this game all month, diagramming sentences, speculating on alternate word choices or meanings.
This is what you get when educational malpractice and malfeasance is mated with tuned out and willfully ignorant kids.
I think this band needs to be sentenced to a grammar and English reeducation camp.