A colleague & I were given the interesting task of driving a rented lift-gate truck half-way across the state to the location of the brand-new home that the Former Executive Director, recently indicted for embezzlement, had used to store equipment that belongs to the organization. He has lost the home to the bank & we needed to get the equipment out before the home was resold. The trip was through very beautiful country & went smoothly, & the realtor met us shortly after we arrived. I was actually hoping to see the indicted Former Executive Director to get a picture of how he was doing, but apparently he has fled into sanctity with relatives in a large city nearby, after turning himself in via the warrant for his arrest. We also heard on the day of the trip that a several hundred thousand dollar check for restitution of what he is accused of embezzling has been received by the organization.
For the rest of the day, after returning in mid-afternoon & giving the student assistants thrills by letting them ride up & down on the hydraulic lift gate *:-), there were many small but intense moments when flare-ups between employees threatened to spill over into outright conflict. This did not have to do with me specifically, but being in the environment I was impacted. The crisis level has finally reached the point, via a threatening email sent to four specific individuals in the organization (not me), that management has belatedly taken the action I recommended in early February and is holding a mandatory all-hands all-day workshop next week, using outside professional trainers, the same ones I recommended, to help overcome the dangerous stress levels.
Our son seems to be recovering very well from his emergency operation, & we are very grateful that he did not have to suffer the life-threatening consequences that would have happened if he did not have the surgery.
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