Abusive? Maybe, sending fired up execs home. Or an exec who had stepped over the line. But abusive, as in, a continuous process currently in motion? Sending them home and letting them come back the next day is not great, and sometimes a terrible business decision on par with letting aggressive sexual harassers come back the next day.

Signed, Someone who has had a boss throw chairs at people

If someone throws a chair at me, I will fuck them up. I don't care what their paygrade is or what authority they think they have.

Signed, someone who is normally calm, reserved and respectful.

Microsoft?

I'll be putting all guesses into my never_work_here.txt file and then I'll respond to them all at once.

+1 to this. I only met him once, but even in that he greatly impressed me with his humanity and humility. I can completely imagine Bill holding people to high expectations, but in a generous and affirmative way.