Yes, there is an issue with the company. But since you haven’t had the opportunity to be in a work group that is at a company with a contentious management group, you don’t understand how having an employee who does something that management allows and benefits only themselves and HARMS the REST of the workgroup feels.

And that’s is an issue with the INDIVIDUAL. If you want to do something to better yourself, go for it. UNLESS it is directly hurting those around you, which his actions were.