Originally Posted by
mngmt mole
.....oh, here we go...the inevitable lynchings. Everyone, stop, take a breath and regroup. Firstly, our membership has spoken. Let's at least wait for DS to respond with his formal statement. Most of us feel he isn't the right person to lead the AOA any further, but for heavens sake, I know him personally and he is a good and well-meaning person. He just badly misjudged the depth of resistance to the company's proposal. Let him (and the rest of the GC) recognise the level of their failing and then respond. We need others to rise up to the challenge, and forming a lynch mob is hardly the way to encourage new people to put their names forward. Let's give a decent interval for matters to simmer down and then let's see what results. Ultimately, DS and his group are a spent force, but I don't intend on seeing him and the others castigated for all time. No matter our feelings about the TA and their role in it's recent history, the GC and DS are still professional colleagues. They lost (rightly in my opinion), but now let's not gloat in their defeat. The same applies to the company. Give every party the opportunity to "save face". We will only ultimately lose if we regress to arrogance and smugness. I've seen enough of that from our management over the years, and it has always stuck me that that is the main reason they constantly miscalculate. Let's not emulate them. We have the moral high ground, let's not throw it away. Sit on your hands over the weekend and then let's enter next week with a new and righteous resolve to see this through to a successful end.
+1.
This is not a time for playing into the company's hands. Stay cool, allow due process, and keep the lynching hysteria for the bar.