Aztec Driver
Line Up and Wait
You are the owner/manager of a small company. You have just a few employees, and each one responsible for multiple tasks. 2 of you are full-timers, and one is a part-timer. Several other part-timers round out the company in other areas of the company.
Your part time employee accidentally damaged a piece of equipment while working with it one day. In your anger and frustration, you said some things that were rather harsh and hurtful to said employee.
The incident was forgotten soon after, but you notice that your employee is rather cold shouldered to you and very curt and short. This employee is still functioning to a satisfactory level, and has not done any overt actions or mouthiness to you, just short, to the point, and all business. No pleasantries of any kind, just pertinent information, straightforward very short conversations, mostly by text, since the two of you spend very little time in the same area.
What do you, as the owner, do? Assume for the first part of this exercise that you, as the owner, cannot remember the episode described, nor your reaction to it. More additions to the scenario in future posts.
Your part time employee accidentally damaged a piece of equipment while working with it one day. In your anger and frustration, you said some things that were rather harsh and hurtful to said employee.
The incident was forgotten soon after, but you notice that your employee is rather cold shouldered to you and very curt and short. This employee is still functioning to a satisfactory level, and has not done any overt actions or mouthiness to you, just short, to the point, and all business. No pleasantries of any kind, just pertinent information, straightforward very short conversations, mostly by text, since the two of you spend very little time in the same area.
What do you, as the owner, do? Assume for the first part of this exercise that you, as the owner, cannot remember the episode described, nor your reaction to it. More additions to the scenario in future posts.