So it turns out the guy who yelled at me last night has been removed from the site and won't be allowed to work on this building again.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, I feel terrible about this. It was a misunderstanding; he was trying to do his job; he behaved badly, but so did I. We both overreacted, partly due to too little information, partly because I was too timid and too conflict-averse to treat him like a real person and talk with him before closing the door. (I should have made clear in the previous entry that I did know there were people around, I just didn't know if they were supposed to have access to the building. But I could've guessed that they were. Mostly, it didn't occur to me that if they were authorized to be there they wouldn't have a way of getting back into the building.)<\/p>\n
And because I'm the one with the fancy computer job and he's a lowly demolitions contractor, he's the one who gets canned. (I'm hoping, from the phrasing everyone's used, that he didn't actually lose his job, just got moved to a different job, but I have no way of knowing. I did make clear, both in my original email and in three discussions today, that I really didn't mean it to escalate that far, that I just wanted to be sure the guy would let it drop, and to try to improve policies and procedures so this sort of thing wouldn't happen again. But I should've known that for a blue-collar job, the easiest way for the employer to resolve this kind of thing is to move and\/or remove the employee. Ugh.)<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I spent much of last night and this morning tense and upset about this, and knowing that the guy isn't around any more is, I admit, a bit of a relief.<\/p>\n
On the other other hand, it's not all that much of a relief, because this didn't resolve anything. Presumably he's angrier than ever with me; I would guess from his point of view he lost his temper but did nothing seriously wrong, and as a result some coddled fragile computer guy gets him in big trouble with his boss. And I can't help but think that the other people on the job are aware of what happened and will resent it as well.<\/p>\n
So there we have it, Jed's contribution to the class struggle for January. I'm not proud of it. But maybe I can try to learn from it and do better next time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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