One of the more annoying aspects of my job is having to deal with field-based staff who think driving a Governmental vehicle gives them special privileges to speed, tailgate and generally act like a hoon. There are serial offenders to this list and, this afternoon, I’m going to read the riot act to one particular individual who must have hailed from the Eastern European tank school of driving.
Having said this I’m not generally a hard-case manager. I find I squeeze a lot more from staff by gauging their strengths and weakness and acting accordingly. To those who give me and their job approaching 100% I’m more than willing to give them the same in kind. What I do not like, though, are those that “take the piss”. Governmental jobs do that to, thankfully, a small number but this small number provides an awful amount of unwelcome distraction from my usual chores. Such people think the System armours them with steel plate excuses and therefore invulnerable to action from the very same System. I'm one of this tribe who believes we only have ourselves to blame.
This week, the one leading up to Easter, my life is being taken over by official and unofficial (as yet, that is) staff issues: not just of my own but also of those I’ve inherited on a temporary basis and at least one other who feels the System has let his own staff down. They range from the absolutely serious like allegations of racial abuse, theft and actual violence to the stupid, like speeding in a school zone, to the internally self-inflicted like management bickering over how they deploy their staff and demarcation.
Maybe after then I can deal with the fall-out over the new Government’s embargo on certain sensitive issues like speed cameras and employment. A few meetings about that this week, let me tell you!
And maybe it’ll be Easter by then and I can go home to our farm and forget everything until late next week.
The sheriff. Before the disciplinary interview...
Pretty grim visage and it wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino film. Shocking to see the grey hairs in that dodgy mo'.
Sounds like a plan to me.
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