Moving on up??

[Eamonn]

I'm not sure if there is a shortage of DE's?

If there is? I'm not sure why?

No job is perfect.

Most of us would like to bring home more money and not have to deal with people who can at times be difficult or demanding.

Still as adults we kinda know that we are not always going to get our own way and life does have its ups and downs.

I'm not saying that being a DE is the perfect job, but it is a long way off from being the worst.

A week or so back I received an e-mail from our SE informing me that our DE was being promoted and moving to a Council in Connecticut to serve as a Senior DE.

I was shocked.

I thought that DE's could be promoted to the Senior DE position until they had served 3 years. This Lad will only have 32 months time in.

While I do accept some responsibility for him not being very good at what he is supposed to do. As I was District Chair when he was hired and at that time I was having problems with my back and ended up spending a lot of time in hospital and not being as active as I had been.

I also feel bad that no one has ever really taken the time to show or even tell him what he is supposed to do.

A month after he started the Field Director was promoted, after a gap of a few months a new FD was hired, but he was arrested for doing something to his son's girl friend and went to jail.

About the same time the financial difficulties of the Council started to come to light, so a new FD wasn't hired.

The then SE must have seen the writing on the wall, as he moved on to bigger and better things.

So I do feel sorry for this Lad.

This was /is his first real job. He came straight from college. He was told to work from his home office??

Sadly for whatever reason his performance and track record just stinks!!

The volunteers never seemed to warm up to him.

He has never seemed to really care.

The District is now 25% smaller than when he started.

He doesn't return calls or e-mails.

Not to put too fine a point on it, he just isn't very good at what he does or is supposed to do.

We do have a new SE. He seems like a nice fellow, but this is his first year. So maybe we are still in the Honeymoon Stage. No one really has any high expectations from him.

Maybe letting this DE go is by design?

I do feel sorry for the people in Connecticut.

I don't know why any SE in his right mind would hire this guy?

I can't help but think that they are in for a real shock.

If the Council does have real expectations from the people they hire, this Lad is going to be lost. He will have to shape up or ship out.

If he ships out, they will have paid for his moving expenses and all the other costs involved for no real result.

Promoting people who are not good at their job?

Seems silly to me.

Ea.

[Beavah]

I'm not sure if there is a shortage of DE's?

If there is? I'm not sure why?

 

I believe there is a shortage of execs in the pipeline; I know that the tenure-in-position-before-promotion rules are being waived quite often in many areas of the country in order to fill slots. Quite often!

 

Not sure why dat is, either.

 

O'course, there's always been a shortage of capable execs.

 

B

 

[frank10]

Don't we have "no dumping" laws here in CT?

[John-in-KC]

Screw up, move up?

 

Sounds to me like the young man has not achieved his Peter Principle level yet.

 

Cynically, John

[Aquila calva]

1. 32 months experience in the field

2. College degree

3. Willing to work out of own home

4. Willing to relocate

5. Experience working with upper management that is changing and inexperienced

6. Experience working with volunteers who come and go as they please

 

Final question: Do you speak Spanish?