Dear John,\u00a0how goes it?<\/p>\n
Did you hear what happened? Spoiler Alert: you’re not going to believe it!<\/a><\/p>\n Just a bit of a head’s up cause Arvind is now allowed to talk<\/a>! (Hey, see if you can get UBC to say something<\/a>\u00a0lol)<\/p>\n First Law of UBC\u2019s Statement on Respectful Environment<\/a><\/em>: Thou cannot complain up.<\/p>\n You and our\u00a0good ‘ol\u00a0Board of Governors knew this better than everyone; after all, pursuant to Policy #1, you administrated all 97 Policies<\/a>, plus the Statement<\/em>.<\/p>\n And we all know what that\u00a0Statement<\/em> says about complaining up: \u201cBullying or harassment does not include the exercise of appropriate managerial or supervisory direction, including performance management.\u201d<\/p>\n The President, of all people, has the right under the Statement<\/em> to be uppity, snippity, and, to be candid, John, \u201cvoid of empathy\u201d whenever he, she, or they exercise\/s managerial direction. It\u2019s b&w in the Statement<\/em>. It\u2019s in the book.<\/p>\n Truth be told John, if the middle managers deemed Arvind \u201ctoo quick to engage in debate in a confrontational or dismissive manner, which is demoralising to a group of executives in fear of their employment security,\u201d <\/em>you should have enforced the First Law, took those managers to task, and protected that top level.<\/p>\n Remember, the purpose of the Statement<\/em> is not only to pit faculty against faculty, staff against staff, and student against student. It is all that, secondarily for sure.<\/p>\n The primary purpose of the\u00a0Statement<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0to protect managers from any bottom up criticism. That toxic critique of Arvind should’ve been nipped in the bud.<\/p>\n Top down, never bottom up.<\/p>\n It\u2019s awesome\u00a0to know you and we all now feel we know you even better. You now know us a little better too! Sometimes a “course correction” is ok.<\/p>\n Be good (and if you can’t be good at BMO, by all means, be bad).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear John,\u00a0how goes it? Did you hear what happened? Spoiler Alert: you’re not going to believe it! Just a bit of a head’s up cause Arvind is now allowed to talk! (Hey, see if you can get UBC to say … Continue reading