Are we falling or flying …

There are many reasons I really like the company I work for; but this week what I most appreciate is while things sometimes move more slowly than I would like, things here tend to move slightly faster than at other companies - or, a little closer to internet time.

For the past five months, I and my teammates suffered from a micromanaging, not very competent manager who rarely read his email or listened to our answers over the phone; and very successfully antagonized at least several of our stakeholders and internal customers, as well as myself and most of my teammates.

One morning this week, way before I got into the office that day, my manager was there - and then he was gone.  As in GONE.  He packed up his desk and then left without saying a word to anyone, and never emailed our team a goodby. 

Out of curiousity, on Friday I looked up his new and improved profile/resume on Linkedin, and discovered he’s actually a very talented  writer who is able to write about his work these past months in a way which may be technically accurate, but is also highly misleading:

“Manage, motivate and develop a team of up to 18 recruiters, recruiting coordinators and sourcing specialists…”

1) There was *one* “sourcing specialist” but he quit after a month.

2) He managed, motivated, and developed over half the team of 18 to walk out the door, never to return - so as not to report to him.

Douglas Adams wrote it best:

“It’s not the fall the kills you.  It’s the sudden stop at the end.”