A reader writes:
I work as a faculty teacher. I bought an e mail request for a assembly with the president of our faculty for this coming Tuesday.
I known as to affirm the assembly with his secretary and additionally to ask how I might put together for the assembly. Her response was he simply wants to have dialog.
The assembly request was simply despatched to me by his secretary and all my interactions with my supervisor and our vice chairman have been constructive up to this level.
Should I be involved I’m getting reprimanded or terminated?
It’s extremely unlikely that the faculty president wants to meet with you to reprimand you or hearth you; these are issues that might usually come out of your supervisor (or with a firing, typically HR). Someone a number of ranges up from you isn’t usually going to be the one dealing with these issues, until you tousled in a really spectacular approach (which means a media consideration/lawsuits/ruined careers kind of approach, and you’d most likely know if that had occurred).
Things this assembly may very well be about:
– he’s assembly with a smattering of individuals throughout the group to get enter/take temperatures/do a common meet-and-greet (this is the most definitely, if I have been placing cash on it)
– he simply discovered he was childhood greatest buddies with your aunt and wants to meet you
– your loved ones is extraordinarily wealthy and he wants you to hit them up for cash
– he wants your enter on one thing involving your boss (this one is unlikely given his place, but when he weren’t the president and was as a substitute a few ranges down, it may very well be potential)
– you’re successful an award
– his DNA check revealed you may have the similar dad (most likely not)
– all kinds of different, non-horrible issues we are able to’t predict
Think about all of the instances you wanted to meet with some at work about one thing mundane and routine. It’s extremely, extremely possible that this can be in that class.
To make this extra broadly relevant, all of the above would even be true even when this weren’t a faculty president. If this have been simply your boss’s boss or yet one more degree up, I’d nonetheless be telling you the similar factor. The solely change I’d make can be to add much more non-scary prospects to the record, usually logistical issues associated to work initiatives.
People have a tendency to freak out when somebody above them wants to meet and they don’t know the subject … however the huge, overwhelming majority of the time it’s for one thing very mundane.
