Kindred Vice President Toad visited our hospice site recently. He set up in a conference room and invited staff to meet with him in one on one sessions. The line formed on the sign up sheet with its half hour increments, which our office manager guarded as if it were gold bars from Fort Knox. Management added a special partition to enable confidential entry and egress for staff.
Years ago Toad would have had no takers. Back then staff knew better than to give bad leaders any information that could be used, twisted, or distorted to harm fellow employees. That wisdom is long gone, replaced by an egotistic, self serving sickness which likely will be terminal for our hospice if it persists long enough.
One does not rise by stepping on the heads of co-workers. Fellow employees sink under the feet of those under the illusion they benefit from divisive and unproductive behavior. The tragedy is corporate management who listens to one side of any story and decides to act. In such cases the race is to be the first one heard. That race unfolded with Toad's open door sessions (which always occurred behind a closed door).
It is such a management basic to hear multiple sides of a story to learn what happened and develop strategies to address the issue. Kindred, and Gentiva before it, ignore this simple dictum.
Executive Toad will do something with the myriad of misinformation made available to him by those who pretend to be victims in their perpetration. If he's like the executive line before him Toad will support the lazy and unethical who point fingers elsewhere so they won't be found out. He might even hit on our attractive staff as did a former HR VP, who professed to being happily married.
It is astounding how much incompetence, silliness and unprofessional behavior they willingly overlook. Yet, management writes up the smallest transgression from hard working, patient focused staff who purposely protect themselves from untrustworthy management.
Kindred executives do not have eyes to see and ears to hear. They have partial stories, often distorted beyond recognition. These fictions stimulate executive adrenaline and vengeance as those coming up short under the micromanagement microscope must be punished.
Will Toad overlook the burning forest of conflict at our hospice site, doing the bidding of those who ignited and continually stoke the fires? I'll wager he's at the head of the fire hose following instructions from the crew that ran to him first. It's been the Kindred way to burn the innocent at the bidding of the arsonist. I expect Toad to follow this deeply entrenched pattern.
Anonymous (from Kindredwarts)
