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There is a fool in charge of my lab. He proved it yet again this week---to the point I dug in my heels and said, "No. No! I'm not going to do that."
The "new" QA officer (Janie) has continued to feed the flames of the man who did the butt chewing meeting last week. Which, on a side note, caused two supervisors to turn in their resignations. This week he was on the war path about my database and at a QA meeting yesterday gave a verbal mandate for me to change our policy regarding a specific issue. The galling thing? The issue was Janie's personal agenda and she set the man off. So much so that he wouldn't even read my response to her recommendation. He didn't want to hear an explanation, didn't want to listen, didn't care about the bigger picture--he wanted his will to be done. Period. End of Story.
When D was telling me that we had been mandated to change our policy, I tried to reason with her, since I hadn't been at the QA meeting. She understood but had to do what he had told her to do. I finally said to her..."No! I'm not going to do it! It's a bad policy, bad for our database, bad for the data entry people, bad for the big picture... So, no!" I told her it was a decision that had to be made by upper management in the IT world and without being told to do it by the head IT man, I was not going to comply.
I ended up in the head IT man's office that afternoon, explaining the situation. Before it was over with, he had called in five other people to discuss it... one of them the BC man's boss. The BC man's boss told us not to do anything. That he would tell BC man his mandate would not take immediate effect and that he would have to explain what he wanted to do and why before the decision would be made.
My direct supervisor and the head IT man supported my refusal to follow BC man's edict. More than that, they waded into the fight for me. Took it up and protected me from having to face the ire of BC man. This is a true blessing to me on so many levels... For one thing, my job is safe and I don't have to worry about BC man trying to get me fired. This has shown me that my bosses think well of me and the job I'm doing.
But it has meant more than that for me as well. I honestly do not remember ever being protected by the men in my life. I can only think of one man who has taken up for me. I learned early on in my childhood that if anyone was going to take care of me, it was going to have to be me. Because no one else did...ever. Even when they should have.
So for these two men in a position of authority over me to not only agree with me, but for one to say... "I need to take care of this because 'BC man' is on a rampage and you're stuck in the middle." and for the other one to say to me "I will fight this battle. You don't need to deal with this man or be on the receiving end of his tirades." And then their words were carried out by their actions. This is new for me! And I am thankful!! As I've gotten older, I've recognized that men like to protect women, but I haven't experienced it for myself. The knowledge was head knowledge alone. Some women act helpless around men, some rely on their beauty to be the reason men respond to them protectively. I don't do either of these things; for this to happen because they care about me is so much better!
It makes me think about how I have not been abandoned to myself by God... and maybe this is a small taste of what that should feel like. I am not alone, I do not have to fight this battle and I can trust the one who is taking care of it to do the right thing.
The fool in charge has made me thankful for the glimpse I've been given of God's care for me.
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