Monday, September 06, 2004
Yet again, I am left in total bewilderment over the actions of others.
A few years ago I left a chat network, following a rather heated discussion with the founder. The woman in question chose to flame me in open channel using a nice collection of expletives. An interesting way to handle your staff, showing total disregard to ethics and displaying a most astonishing unprofessional attitude to anyone who cared. Since this incident I've found out that this is not unusual for her.
Her attitude was the last nail in the coffin quite frankly, and helped making the decision to go that much easier. Since departing, which, I have to say, was the best decision I could have made, I've found she can stoop to new lows of public conduct on a frighteningly frequent basis. I'm not naming names, I'm above that, those that had have the misfortune to have come into contact with her will know exactly who I am talking about.
Her chat network hasn't been fairing so well recently, many staff have been on the receiving end of her unpredictable moods and draconian attitude - others have simply got tired and bored of the internal politics and left*. It's a real shame, it was once a mighty network and still has hundreds of chatters who use it and love it, but even these are dwindling.
This weekend the woman dropped her moral-bar to an all-time low. She's obviously had her pride dented and she's clearly a poor loser. Having lost her most capable staff over the last year or so, she's now resorted to hanging out her dirty laundry in public. I'm not going to go into detail, even though I’d love to get across to you how depraved she has become; because I have a lot of respect for the person concerned and to explain what she did, to me, is almost on a par with doing what she did and that's all kinds of wrong. To do this kind of thing anyway is very underhand, but I'm starting to think this woman has deep psychological problems. I am continued to be amazed at the ability of some people to be able to inflict pain and misery on others and why they would want to. How can some individuals be so spiteful?
Grrr... just makes me seethe.
(*Many of the former staff met up and started a new network and I'm proud to say I'm part of this new venture. We do things differently, we have respect for one another and our network has grown into a thriving community and the staff have become an extended family. There are no power-hungry staff and it's such a pleasure to work there.)
A few years ago I left a chat network, following a rather heated discussion with the founder. The woman in question chose to flame me in open channel using a nice collection of expletives. An interesting way to handle your staff, showing total disregard to ethics and displaying a most astonishing unprofessional attitude to anyone who cared. Since this incident I've found out that this is not unusual for her.
Her attitude was the last nail in the coffin quite frankly, and helped making the decision to go that much easier. Since departing, which, I have to say, was the best decision I could have made, I've found she can stoop to new lows of public conduct on a frighteningly frequent basis. I'm not naming names, I'm above that, those that had have the misfortune to have come into contact with her will know exactly who I am talking about.
Her chat network hasn't been fairing so well recently, many staff have been on the receiving end of her unpredictable moods and draconian attitude - others have simply got tired and bored of the internal politics and left*. It's a real shame, it was once a mighty network and still has hundreds of chatters who use it and love it, but even these are dwindling.
This weekend the woman dropped her moral-bar to an all-time low. She's obviously had her pride dented and she's clearly a poor loser. Having lost her most capable staff over the last year or so, she's now resorted to hanging out her dirty laundry in public. I'm not going to go into detail, even though I’d love to get across to you how depraved she has become; because I have a lot of respect for the person concerned and to explain what she did, to me, is almost on a par with doing what she did and that's all kinds of wrong. To do this kind of thing anyway is very underhand, but I'm starting to think this woman has deep psychological problems. I am continued to be amazed at the ability of some people to be able to inflict pain and misery on others and why they would want to. How can some individuals be so spiteful?
Grrr... just makes me seethe.
(*Many of the former staff met up and started a new network and I'm proud to say I'm part of this new venture. We do things differently, we have respect for one another and our network has grown into a thriving community and the staff have become an extended family. There are no power-hungry staff and it's such a pleasure to work there.)
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