Stunning word hits me that a new, very senior person has been shown the door at a certain (aledged) women's rights violating employer in town. Although the most recently departed didn't have a particular work related issue that rose to the level of EEOC complaint, his departure is certainly a vindication for someone who lost his life last year. Now, the top two people directly in my friend's chain of command are gone and frankly, only one Ball remains between eternal rest for my best friend and total healing in his former department.
Rumor has it that the former IT services director has chosen to seek self employment after being shown the door (word was he resigned, but fired is more likely as he didn't even get a chance to say at the end of the month). Ironically, it was on the same day of the month that I was retired. It is... the little things I can take satisfaction in.
Before you go out of your way to chastise me for.. gloating in the misery of others, let me assure you that the now recently...promoted to customer...is more deserving of this promotion that perhaps anyone since Charles Carstens.
If ever anyone at the Green Mile deserved to be dumped on his ass, it is our piece of garbage whose name shall not be mentioned. Suffice it enough to say that his engagement scores were horrible and it was a record that went back more than a few years. Speculation runs rampant in his former department that he may in fact be headed to Omaha where he hopes to ply his skills in IT managing his life dream of a pizza place. Hopefully he has finally learned that promoting people who kiss his ass isn't a recipe for success.
Speaking of ass kissing, one hopes that the last Ball standing finally will be pushed over the edge into his just desserts and maybe, just maybe, the former director will advertise for someone to handle the pizza spatula with axe like precision.
Grats to the new CIO who took the time to realize that the IT Director was both lame and outdated. As far as I am concerned, once the last bad piece rolls away, the Big Green Mile will be able to take care of its IT employees and restore the underpinnings of success to a company who sorely needs to right itself against the current of an economy turning the tide.
I hope and pray that what I feel to be the last piece of a puzzle that allowed the circumstances for my dear friend to choose death instead of work are finally put to rest with the termination of the last pinBall.
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