Related to the previous post, the meeting two days ago to discuss the move was typically horrible. It ran half an hour late due to all the questions about how bad things would be, well into lunch. The well-meaning but dumb department head did almost all the talking, and he remains a bad speaker, unable to get to the point, unaware of where his microphone is, and seems to be going from bad to worse with PowerPoint. Seriously, I'll try to do a post about his presentation itself. It deserves the attention from a "what not to do" perspective.
I have to give him credit for at least one part of the meeting, though. We've known that the move was coming for a while now. It's unpopular, for all the reasons discussed in my previous post. We got some details at yesterday's meeting that only made things worse, couldn't get some details that we wanted, the good news was rare and trivial, and with every meeting on the subject the day gets a little closer and the lack of a reprieve gets more obvious. The WMBD guy never could have had a friendly crowd yesterday.
So I'll give him credit for grinning and bearing it. Even getting some hostile, arguably unprofessional questions, as far as I could tell he didn't do anything worse than try to put a positive spin on his next answer and maybe fumble his words even more. Still doesn't make me feel better about his competence, but at least it kept the meeting itself from being any worse.
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