Reply to post: Re: Thermal Incident

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

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Re: Thermal Incident

Ah, but management sometimes do worse ( especially to other, more junior managers). They'll archive comments out of context and bring it out with a nasty twist to the meaning, when required.

I have had several examples pulled on me over the years.

I once said to my line manager, ( respectively head and deputy head) while chatting in the staffroom, that I didn't think we should be micro-managing our highly skilled and professional specialist teaching teams, but that they should be self-managing and we should be setting and monitoring targets for performance etc.

This was, several years later, pulled out in a performance review as my having said to her that I didn't believe in managing our staff. This despite ( or I'd hazard because of) the fact that during that same year I'd been able to get rid of one very poor and incompetent teacher in a matter of weeks that she'd failed to be able to remove for many years; By setting and monitoring targets for performance! Because he couldn't meet them and I could prove that these were a minimum professional standard. Whereas for years they'd micro-managed this specimen, checked every dot and comma of his work for a few weeks, which he duly and temporarily complied with. Pretty easy for him to do since they'd told him exactly what to do almost hour by hour but never laid down any standards that he should achieve.

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