I am unsure if I have ever seen a maintenance department as dysfunctional as this one. It is not a crisis of competence, even though half the guys are green as grass and none are properly trained. It is a crisis of leadership. The maintenance manager is afraid to manage, and is a 6'5" tall barrel of passive-aggressive cowardice. The supervisor that reports to him is a screamer who is dangerously convinced of his non-existent electrical knowledge. The crew as a whole has of course been poisoned by these factors, and with only one or two exceptions, they were cold shit on toast to begin with.
They have sinned in my eyes and in the eyes of the Machine God. The Job is not getting done. I am not having this.
I have been watching all of this since January. I did not wish to take hasty steps on incomplete information. However, I now have enough information to act on. I in fact have a surplus of information, and all of it bad. Changes will be made, and as I told my boss during my interview, hearts will be broken...and not necessarily the hearts of the bad apples. The situation is so bad that I am not hiring anyone new until I clean this mess up, because anyone I hire will be contaminated by the wretchedness of the current maintenance regime. No, this requires a fresh start.
I do not intend to fire everyone, but they may leave anyway. I am absolutely unconcerned with this and have already lined up contractors to cover essential functions while a new crew is assembled, should that be necessary. In any case, the current management will no longer have their positions, and a supervisor from another one of my groups - who is all about getting The Job Done- will be promoted into management. He is a beast of a man who understands my values, and it is my guess that once he is promoted, the entire crew except Kevin and Austin will walk out the door. Whoopsie.
It distresses me that people in my former occupation take no pride at all in what they do, that jobs are left half-completed in a public venue, that kitchen equipment is left down for two weeks at a time, that water testing is pencil-whipped. My sense of religion has been offended. The world is not as it should be.
And I am the maintenance man.
Oh, this will get fun. Bad reactions with little forethought seem inevitable.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 20, 2018, 12:52:49 AM
Oh, this will get fun. Bad reactions with little forethought seem inevitable.
Probably. But it's nut-crushing time, so I am not concerned.
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Its like you work where I work.