United insists that the instances were not related and that Stout was a difficult and abrasive employee.
Second that, I had a PC with her where I called a "time out" until we established that she was the F/O not the Captain.
She is only one in a long line of troubled cases that United bought in the late 80's to satisfy a consent decree. When they ran out of well qualified individuals, they simply filled the quota. Fortunately, most of these people were smart, learned quickly and are now the finest in the industry, but United paid a price to weed them out.