#Fresenius At Tracey’s trip to Indiana almost a month ago (Indiana, not Texas) she was told she had to keep secrets from her employees and it has been bothering her ever since. Yesterday the veil of secrecy was lifted.
The upper crust decided there were to be big cuts in staff because they are launching a “virtual classroom” so fewer educators would be needed. They were putting their heads together to determine where to make those cuts and ultimately who would be cut. It was thought important that this news be kept strictly secret so as not to upset everybody until the “final announcements” could be made.
Obviously many of the educators knew something was going on and were getting impatient with having their questions ignored and getting the run around. Tracey felt bad about all of this.
To complicate everything even more HR had to butt in and second guess every decision to be made, including not allowing Tracey to let go of her worst employee. So not only does Tracey have to keep the slacker but also has to lose a good educator instead. Typical.
Tracey is just so happy that the cat is out of the bag so to speak and no longer has to avoid answering questions. Except, of course, she now has to guard herself from blurting out that her whiniest employee wasn’t kept because she is “valuable” but because HR was afraid of her.
MjL 17 Mar 2018, 8:55 a.m.
This embarrassing reminder shows the intellectual difference between a respected leader — and Twitler
I started doing the #Twitter roundup a few days ago because it just seems our society gets a little bit more weird every day. It is getting harder to grasp the big picture when it shifts this fast.
I hope we can eventually get back to normal, but I’m afraid we will just continue to adapt to the “new” normal.
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