My Boss's Boss Acted Tonedeaf While my City is Burning to the Ground
Hi Mark, love your channel and have been a longtime listener and chime into the comments whenever I have a spicy opinion to share. Trying to remain anonymous, but can't help wondering if I'm overreacting especially since he did seem to remedy his actions but I still want to share my story and I still talk crap about the situation because I still expected better in the moment and thought you may enjoy the story anyhow. And this more of a True Off My Chest.
Can understand if this is TLTR
I live in the States and my city currently has a major fire situation that is still not fully in control and started last weekend. Thankfully I'm a safe distance away so i wasn't directly impacted but i had friends who had to evacuate and hundreds of folks lost their homes. I work remotely and I have several coworkers who live in other cities but apparently this fire situation has made it onto major news stations outside of local. Last Saturday my partner and I had to prepare for evacuation because we didn't know where fires would hit as we were expecting a few because of the dry heat and high winds but nobody could anticipate this!!!
The morning I returned online to work as usual and got a really kind thoughtful email from our director checking to see if I was ok and to let her know if I needed anything. I responded with my appreciation and told her I was safe and away from it. Then later on I attended the weekly team meeting led by my boss's supervisor and he acted like it was just an ordinary Monday said nothing about the fact part of the state is burning to the ground. And said "Hope you all had a great weekend and everyone stayed cool in this heat." I think I could have accepted it if he was just clueless and didn't watch the news, but he was aware!
When it was my turn to update I coldly responded, "I would have loved to enjoy my weekend and had a lot I wanted to do, but instead I had to prepare to potentially evacuate because my city was burning to the ground."
I think he must have had an "oh sh--!" moment because his tune totally changed after that and he said "I guess I should have addressed it at the beginning of the meeting", and he apologized and said to let him know if I needed anything. So at the end of the day he did remedy the situation and asked during another meeting how my city was.
So I appreciated the after the fact, but I still can't help but be salty with the fact he apparently knew about the fires and still started off the meeting all happy-go-lucky stay cool! When literally thousands of people had to evacuate and hundreds to almost a thousand homes burnt to the ground. I mean I get he lives in a different city but to me and not just me, several people in my city work for the same place, it came off as extremely tone deaf and dismissive to all those other people who weren't nearly as lucky as me. Am I overreacting for expecting our "fearless leader" to show just a little bit of empathy and read the room? I mean I know I'm safe, but still have a to-go bag ready just in case things get worse and head to our area, but don't think it will. But I have friends who had to evacuate and am still concerned for and also this is my city and I love living here and being a part of it.
Thank you for reading! FYI this is my first post and I'm also typing on my phone.