There was restructuring in the company
I’m now working with.
It didn’t touch my department.
The manager knew it wouldn’t
but didn’t communicate this
because, well, why should she?
Nothing was changing.
So without reassurance and
a story to believe in,
coworkers made up their own.
It was dark. It was dismal.
It had the entire department being shut down.
The talented, in demand people left
(even in a recession, there are jobs for those people).
The manager has less than half her staff
and those are the folks waiting for a package.
Good news, bad news, no news,
have a talk with your staff
(or they’ll have that talk without you).