Dreams is a corporation with three owners, PW, John and Donna (a silent partner). The Dis Unplugged is all Pete's John isn't an owner of it and only appears on the show from time to time. PW was very narcissistic, maybe full blown narcissistic personality disorder. They learn how to fool everyone because they need to feel they are always correct with what they do or are doing.
With DUT and The Dis, they were both home based businesses. This fostered an environment where PW could easily say "Yeah, they weren't what I was looking for in a contributor." In the grand scheme of things, The Dis really didn't have a whole lot of turnover. They have had 5 or 6 people who have come out against PW and they have had dozens of contributors on the show. Some of them have been there for years. If they have had around 50 contributors and double the number of people who have left (Bob Varley, Panda, Deni Sunderly, etc) that's still only a 20% turnover rate which isn't all that high, more so for an internet media based business.
I can easily believe that most, if not all knew nothing was going on. Why?
- The don't work in an office, all together, at the same time.
- Most of the time there are at most 7 of them together for a couple of hours a week
- PW rarely exhibited illegal, illicit, bad or wrong behavior in public
- A lot of what PW did was in private with the individuals
- John was not a part of The Dis ownership structure.
Sure Pete did a lot of nasty stuff. But no one saw him doing it on a day to day basis. When they saw P act out on the shows I bet many people were saying/thinking "Oh, that's just P being P." And I have to wonder, even if they wanted to say something, who could they say it to? Not P. John? Wasn't he a friend of P? Corey? Wasn't he a friend of P? With so few people there it would be way too easy to trace it back to who complained. I would have just walked away from the job but that's me. I probably wouldn't have when I was in my 20's or early 30's.
Sure you could tell John, John could talk to Pete and Pete would just say "Oh come on, I was just joking around." And in a few months they would be gone with Pete again saying "They weren't what I was looking for in a contributor."