Low Expectations Part 2

Turns out no one won Tuesday’s Halloween Costume Contest.

I’m told that after Manager had that meltdown, left staff to host in her absence while she locked herself in her office, "crying because no one likes or appreciates her".

She’s not wrong, she's not liked, but there’s a reason for that. A reason or reasons she might want to analyze, instead of crying like a baby for attention.

Now, I don’t know for sure if residents saying Manager was "crying" is meant figuratively or literally. However, I did see she’d locked her office up so tight that I couldn’t see inside when I passed by. So, it’s possible crying is what she was doing in there.

At any rate, I’m told that after that "things got crazy".

When Manager did not return, staff didn’t know what to do. So, the maintenance guys shut down the serving station, told everyone to come take what you want, someone gave a gift to everyone who wore a costume, and the party was over.

No games, no contest, management’s "Spooktacular Day", scheduled from 11am-3pm, was over and done with by 12 noon .... 30 minutes after I myself had exited.

Holy Moly!

What an embarrassment.

The Baker says she’s going to ask Activity Director if she could have a talk with Manager about the things she's done that makes residents dislike her (the disrespectful way she talks to people, locking up the refrigerator, denying us access to the kitchen for our own events, yada yada yada).

If Activity Director is foolish enough to accepted that mission, my guess is her days employed here would be numbered. Then Manager would nut up on the resident or residents who'd asked Activity Director to counsel her.

I saw that happen in real time when working in the law department of a municipality.

The City Attorney, for whatever reason, asked for feedback as to how he was doing running the office. Two attorneys took him up on that, brought troubling issues to his attention, whereupon those attorneys were fired shortly thereafter.

There was a bit of a hew and a cry. The City Attorney was asked if the firings were retribution for essentially receiving negative feedback and, of course, he lied and assured that was not the reason.

No one accepted the firings were coincidences, but were powerless to do anything about it, except learn situations like that are traps to be avoided.

Will be interesting to see if history repeat itself should Activity Director choose to accept that mission, falls into the trap.

My little Stalker did a banging job on her Harley costume.