This is why my husband is my HERO !!! August 4, 2014 Dear XXXXX: Effective immediately I am resigning my position as a (the) Supervisor for the Westchester EMS Division, White Plains. I cannot continue to work in an environment wherein unless you are a puppet you are an outcast. I am not a puppet and you are not a puppet master. You are an incompetent manager who has and continues to remain protected and employed due to your long standing relationship with XXXXX. You surround yourself with incompetence. You keep only those around you, who do the least, refuse to speak openly, don’t have the nerve to disagree with you or have a personal opinion. This is why we don’t get along. I call you out. I let you know when I disagree with you and you hide behind your position. A smart manager would surround themselves with self starters and free thinkers. He would want people to disagree with him and give other points of view. Because one person isn’t always right. That’s why this country isn’t a dictatorship. A good Manager should, but you don’t: Motivate people. Why are the employees there? What keeps them with your organization and stops them from going somewhere else? What makes the good days good? What makes them stick with the organization after a bad day or a bad week? – You don’t Make people feel good. The successful manager is great at identifying his employees strengths and applauding them every once in a while. Thats because good managers know that happy people make productive people. Try to applaud your employees strengths both publicly and private. – You don’t Tell your employees how much you appreciate them from time to time. Just go out and say it. Ask them out for a cup of coffee and tell them what you appreciate about them: Theyre a hard worker; they effectively motivate other people; theyre easy to coach; theyre disciplined or go the extra mile; they always cheer you up, etc. Dont mince words — just tell them straight out. An employee who knows just how much they are appreciated will work harder, enjoy what they do more, and pass that psychic happiness along to other employees. - You don’t Hold yourself to the highest standards. We all know the kind of manager who constantly shouts or bitterly complains when mistakes are made but gives himself a pass when he fails. Dont be this kind of manager. Ideally, be harder to on yourself than you are on your employees. This can have a trickle-down effect: Employees see the types of goals and standards you set for yourself and want to emulate you because they look up to you. – You don’t Assume responsibility for your employees mistakes. When one of your underlings makes a mistake, dont lord it over them; assume the mistake as your own, even if it isnt technically yours. What youre doing is creating a culture where your employees feel comfortable making mistakes. This is a very important concept: You don’t • Doing this allows your employees to innovate and, ultimately, to learn or grow. Workers who learn from their mistakes will grow to become better workers! You are not fair across the board. You treat people based on whether or not you like them. If they are liked, they fair well. If they aren’t liked, they do not. But then again, that’s how you keep your job so we do as we are taught I guess. I mean no one ever honestly thinks that XXXXX would be disciplined for any wrong doing as a lead medic in MV. You vacation for two weeks with him every year. I’m sure that doesn’t qualify for any degree of nepotism though. XXXXX- is a perfect puppet for you. He wouldn’t know a personal opinion if it walked up and hit him in the face. He is so afraid to give you a wrong opinion he would rather sit in his office with the same emotion of a jelly fish. He doesn’t have an opinion; he waits for you to give it to him. XXXXX- is incompetent, lazy and has no inter-personal skills unless it has to do with his XXXXX conference that he runs and works on all day on TransCare’s dime. You say he will go far in TransCare because he does nothing himself and delegates everything. XXXXX should have been fired 3 times over already. Narcotics violations- left a complete kit in an open vehicle for over 8 hours and signed over the wrong kit at shift change. When it was brought to her attention she failed to report it. Good morals and ethics. When it was reported to you, you said you would handle it. Yep you took care of it. You gave her 2 weeks out of White Plains as Supervisor but allowed her to pick up overtime in New Rochelle. Some punishment. Anyone else would have been fired. She was previously removed as a Supervisor for poor decision making but hey, she got to watch the Super Bowl on TransCare’s Dime! She had caused more drama and problems when she was in White Plains as a Supervisor than any 10 employees put together. But she is a good bull-xxxxx so you keep her around. That’s quite a team you have there. One I am truly sorry to say I was ever part of. Sincerely, Doug Berkowitz TransCare Westchester EMS Supervisor (retired)
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:32:34 +0000
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