Well, poor Ray finally got his wrist slapped for
everything he has been doing at work. I mentioned a couple of months ago that he
had gone before the school committee represent the bus monitors to present their
concerns about their supervisor. The school committee looked into a lot of what
he brought up and actually had the superintendent look into resolving some of
the problems.
The problem is the superintendent wasn't quite as thrilled
about what was going on. Ray had offered to go to the safety meetings to
represent the bus monitors so they could be brought up to speed. He offered to
do it without getting paid. Well, it resulted with our superintedent sending Ray
a letter making it clear that the woman who is the supervisor was going to stay
in charge and that no matter what Ray did, he was not going to get her
job.
I thought it was a bit of an overreaction. Ray handled it pretty
well. He actually hid the letter because he did not want me to know he got it. I
happened to run across it. It did not bother me too much, though. While the
language was clear, nothing indicated that his job was in danger or that they
really could do anything else.
I think part of the problem is the woman
has been doing the job for years. She is the only person to manage the monitors
since state law required them in 1985. She has run the bus company for 38 years.
I have a feeling that she has not had a performance evaluation in years. I think
her management skills have gone a bit stale. I only say this because she happens
to chair one of the town boards I am on, and I can see how much focus she puts
into that. She is a nice lady though.
She actually told Ray that he was
not welcome in the bus company's office one day while he was sitting there
waiting for a couple of his coworkers. Apparently, the new manager of the bus
company told Ray that he was welcome any time he wanted afterward.
It is
proving to be interesting.
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see greasy
;) ... Saw it.
AJ
Sure hope it all gets worked out soon. God I hate that unneeded stress that people bring to a job sometimes. Can't we all get along and work towards a common goal (togtherness, peace, helpfulness)
Life would be so much easier if we could.
Sounds more like personality conflicts than professional behavior. Nobody really needs this sort of thing going on because it's so foolish. If he or anybody doesn't speak up or take action when there appears to be a reason, he/they are accused of irresponsibility, laxity, and disregard. So, after we've all been told a million times, "don't be afraid to speak up or ask a question", he or anybody will take the responsibility or action that appears to be necessary or of issue....only to be treated like badly for it later. I'm sure Ray didn't do anything to make trouble (he was only trying to help), but now he's being treated like a troublemaker (like he did something wrong.)
That he is. I think part of it is that he has pointed out issues with a woman who, until her recent retirement, ran the whole schoolbus company for many, many years. Overall, things have always gone well, but as the community has grown, I think she was left to do whatever she pleased as long as nothing went wrong.
Now, she is working part-time just running the monitors, and it is showing how bad things were organized.
AJ