I work up early and planned to be into the office a good hour earlier than normal to deal with any issues arising from the start of a new semester. It was not to be. I spent nearly an hour in traffic stuck behind a grader on the drive to work. I forgot to wear my hat and scarf so my neck and ears froze on the walk from the parkade to the office. I spent my morning waiting for ears to thaw. I’m told there’s a mini-blizzard outside again today. At least I remembered to wear my boots!

There continues to be fall-out at work from last week’s game of guess what’s in my head.  Sometimes I wonder if the people who cause these types of panic attacks are completely oblivious to the root causes of the issues and their own responsibility for the occurrences or if they just don’t care about the impacts of their choices and behaviour on their sub-ordinates.

Both options seem poor but I think I’d rather it be the former than the latter.  Ignorance can be corrected. Downright abdication of responsibility as a leader and intentionally blaming those below you for issues that had been flagged for your attention – and that you played a part in the lack of resolution for – is a poor example to be setting from any position of power. The lack of ethical behaviour at higher levels often astounds me. The fact that everyone is too afraid for their jobs to call the perpetrator of the behaviour on it saddens me.

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