And for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Academy Award goes to...
Bob the Builder for his performance as an elderly unsuspecting maintenance man being victimized by a tyrannical drunken boss!!!
So I FINALLY had a meeting with my maintenance man about all of the SHIT he has been spreading about me the other day. It was one for the ages folks! Let me give yall a quick recap of how I got to this point...
Bob the Builder has been going around flapping his dentures at anyone who'll listen for months now about how I'm a no-good, lazy black ass manager who sleeps all day and never around when I'm supposed to. I'm also trying to make him look bad by purposely not ordering the supplies he needs to do his job. Oh yeah, and I'm the worst manager ever and that all I do is get drunk instead of my doing my job! I have been trying to be the bigger person because I haven't heard any of this directly, only hearsay. But when he went to another property to help out a few weeks back, he started up again and this time his comments got all the way to my boss. When I showed up for my District meeting a couple weeks ago, several GM's as well as my boss confronted me about the comments from Bob. So yall know I was pissed, embarrassed, and all that good stuff, right???
Just so yall know, Bob is a 70 year old white man from West Virginia. He has tried to pick up housekeepers and has dallied with some of the local, shall we call them, independent women of the streets. We all think he has an issue taking instruction from me because I'm a 26 yr old Black man. He is full of crap and everyone knows it. He has driven every manager that he's worked with at this hotel crazy and he's about this close to retirement.
Well the other day, when he accused me of being the lazy drunk from hell, I had reached my boiling point. My immediate reaction was that my feelings were hurt. I may be the boss, but I'm still human. I wanted to cry (I'm a sensitive soul, lol!), but my pride wouldn't let me. So in an order to bury this BS once and for all, I called up another GM to sit in on the meeting with me. That's when we watched one of the most memorable performances in Academy Award History live and in person.
As I discussed with Bob the reason for the meeting, he immediately took the defense. He went on and on about how has never said any negative things about me and that he has only made remarks/opinions because he's an opinionated person. We shouldn't take offense to them. Then he talked about how he's always been a team player and never talks about anyone behind his back. (OMG!!!!!!) When he was a plant manager, he fired anyone who took part in discrediting him or his team. Good advice, huh? He also spoke of how he's always respected me as a manager and that he expects the same respect from me! I was so pissed at this point, the other GM had to step in and continue the meeting, telling Bob basically that any issues, concerns have to go through me and not around me and over me (Keep family business in house!!!!). At the end of the movie, err, I mean meeting, he said the words that sealed his Oscar win:
"I'm just shocked and upset about this meeting. I don't know what to say about all this right now! May I please leave?" and exited the room with all of the dramatic flair Merryl Streep used to get into her car in "The Devil Wears Prada" (Excellent movie bytheway. All he was missing was the sunglasses).
The GM and I looked at each other and all we could do was ask what the hell just happened? He was so full of it yall, I was almost convinced!!!
Later, I was told that he had tears in his eyes. Our question was whether his feelings were really hurt or was his blood pressure just up so high after our meeting and he was so mad a being called out? Who knows right? Then he called off yesterday and announced he was going to start his vacation early. I kinda hope he decides to retire while on vacation. I should only be so lucky.
PS... Stay tuned, because coming up next, the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a workplace setting!!!
So I FINALLY had a meeting with my maintenance man about all of the SHIT he has been spreading about me the other day. It was one for the ages folks! Let me give yall a quick recap of how I got to this point...
Bob the Builder has been going around flapping his dentures at anyone who'll listen for months now about how I'm a no-good, lazy black ass manager who sleeps all day and never around when I'm supposed to. I'm also trying to make him look bad by purposely not ordering the supplies he needs to do his job. Oh yeah, and I'm the worst manager ever and that all I do is get drunk instead of my doing my job! I have been trying to be the bigger person because I haven't heard any of this directly, only hearsay. But when he went to another property to help out a few weeks back, he started up again and this time his comments got all the way to my boss. When I showed up for my District meeting a couple weeks ago, several GM's as well as my boss confronted me about the comments from Bob. So yall know I was pissed, embarrassed, and all that good stuff, right???
Just so yall know, Bob is a 70 year old white man from West Virginia. He has tried to pick up housekeepers and has dallied with some of the local, shall we call them, independent women of the streets. We all think he has an issue taking instruction from me because I'm a 26 yr old Black man. He is full of crap and everyone knows it. He has driven every manager that he's worked with at this hotel crazy and he's about this close to retirement.
Well the other day, when he accused me of being the lazy drunk from hell, I had reached my boiling point. My immediate reaction was that my feelings were hurt. I may be the boss, but I'm still human. I wanted to cry (I'm a sensitive soul, lol!), but my pride wouldn't let me. So in an order to bury this BS once and for all, I called up another GM to sit in on the meeting with me. That's when we watched one of the most memorable performances in Academy Award History live and in person.
As I discussed with Bob the reason for the meeting, he immediately took the defense. He went on and on about how has never said any negative things about me and that he has only made remarks/opinions because he's an opinionated person. We shouldn't take offense to them. Then he talked about how he's always been a team player and never talks about anyone behind his back. (OMG!!!!!!) When he was a plant manager, he fired anyone who took part in discrediting him or his team. Good advice, huh? He also spoke of how he's always respected me as a manager and that he expects the same respect from me! I was so pissed at this point, the other GM had to step in and continue the meeting, telling Bob basically that any issues, concerns have to go through me and not around me and over me (Keep family business in house!!!!). At the end of the movie, err, I mean meeting, he said the words that sealed his Oscar win:
"I'm just shocked and upset about this meeting. I don't know what to say about all this right now! May I please leave?" and exited the room with all of the dramatic flair Merryl Streep used to get into her car in "The Devil Wears Prada" (Excellent movie bytheway. All he was missing was the sunglasses).
The GM and I looked at each other and all we could do was ask what the hell just happened? He was so full of it yall, I was almost convinced!!!
Later, I was told that he had tears in his eyes. Our question was whether his feelings were really hurt or was his blood pressure just up so high after our meeting and he was so mad a being called out? Who knows right? Then he called off yesterday and announced he was going to start his vacation early. I kinda hope he decides to retire while on vacation. I should only be so lucky.
PS... Stay tuned, because coming up next, the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a workplace setting!!!
posted by Capricorn_HNIC at 2:02 AM
3 Comments:
Whenever you show weakness towards your employees, you have just blown your status quo! Bad situation.
That is a great post. You are a wonderfully amazing manager, I know from 1st had experience--I remember what that place looked like months ago. Emotion is not weakness; showing some vunerability is not a bad thing sometime, so long as you are able to control it. Keep up the great work and be looking for my letter commenting the property from our recent stay.
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