You know the morale in the office is circling the drain when two grown women nearly come to blows over the thermostat setting.
And these are two women who are professional, kind and have worked together in the same office for about a decade.
But that’s what it had come to in our regional office. We lost a brilliant leader to retirement about 4 years ago and it just went down hill fast. I think those inside the zone controlled HVAC of the corporate offices just got way too accustomed to our branch taking care of itself. They sent out a new manager who was simply a liar and a train wreck of a leader. This person even used money earmarked for things like upgrading the HVAC equipment to prop up the bottom line. Well, I’m just glad I didn’t quit like a lot of my other colleagues did. I was front and center to watch as that ridiculous excuse for a manger was led out of the office by security. This time, we got a boss from inside the zone controlled HVAC to take over. And this lady does not fool around. She also made sure to bring that zone controlled HVAC with her. That was the first thing she did after canning the old boss. We had HVAC professionals crawling all over the office floor updating the HVAC equipment as well as the HVAC technology. From there, it’s been an escalator ride back to doing business the way it is supposed to be done in this company.