How to know your staff hates you
Sometimes people are subtle – other times, well, not so much.
Take this parting shot left for the manager of a Vancouver coffee shop.
How damaged must the lines of communication have been if four people, collectively, decided this was the only way to get their point across?
Full story – Mutiny at the cafe.
(Link from flee.com)
Scott!!! How cruel of you to perform social experiments on poor cafe workers. This wasnt expected out of someone who headed the IE team at MSFT. Bad boy.
(Hanging head in shame)
I did some work at a community trust-owned place tearing down old PCs and suchlike and left after a couple of years. I stayed out of office politics to the extent I bothered to acknowledge it, for good and obvious reasons – I wanted to work, not politic.
A couple of years later I ran into one of the others who was still working there, and he informed me that the entire place had written and signed a letter informing the community trust that they did not trust the manager, they did not like him, they refused to work for him.
It can happen. All it takes is enough people sufficiently fed to the back teeth with the boss, a boss insufficiently astute to manage the friction and the people, and someone willing to start the ball rolling.
Wesley: I believe it. I just wonder how effective all this ends up being. Anyone so lost as a manager to let things get so bad is exactly the kind of person who would blame the people who quit for quiting. Know what I mean? I could totally imagine someone saying “look how bad my (former) employees are” rather than even considering taking it as a wake-up call.