I attended my paternal grandmother's funeral yesterday. She was 103 years old but still as sharp as a 30 year old lady. I was close to her and supposed to meet her this weekend, and now poof!...she is gone. I am really distraught.
I informed my office manager vide SMS that I had to take an urgent leave because I had to attend my grandmother's funeral. And she replied, "NOTED."
Noted? Noted, she said? Being someone who always referred to us as her team, her people, her action simply defy her own words. And you know what people will believe, when words are in contradiction with deeds.
A leader always grab any opportunity that come his/her way to RELATE to his/her people. In the case of my office manager, she had always wanted to portray herself as a leader. As such, what she should have done was to offer me her condolence. This, she failed to do. And this is not the first time that she has failed. Only this time is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.
She had lost that golden opportunity to show that she care. And to show that she deserves to wear the badge of leadership. As far as I am concerned, every time she opens her mouth that she is this and that leader, she screams Fake! Fake! Fake!
It is now too late for her to make amends. It is now permanently stamped in my mind, beyond a shadow of doubt, that she simply didn't care.
It is now too late for her to make amends. It is now permanently stamped in my mind, beyond a shadow of doubt, that she simply didn't care.
From now on no matter what she says or does, it will only strengthen the imprint in my mind that talk is cheap. Period.
