Personal Narrative: My Home

Much of my troubles with Joanne actually begins with Danette. Danette would often come to my office to complain about Joanne. This happened maybe 4 or 5 times. It was always the same thing, Joanne was complaining that she wasn't getting any support staff help, and was critical of Katrina and Alyssa. Danette would basically say that Joanne wouldn't need any support staff help if she wasn't so slow. Eventually it got so bad that on 3/6/15 I approached Burgess for help and explained what was going on and why I thought it was happening. John said he would look into it. When I returned from vacation on 3/20 I asked John where we stood on it. He said he didn't want to go into it at this time and felt that he was holding our hands. He said we should have the skills to resolve this and he expected Danette and I to work it out on our own. After 5:00pm on 3/20 I approached Danette to discuss the Joanne problem. Calmly sitting in her office I said "I'm not really sure where to start, so I'm just going to say it". Danette and I had been good friends up to this point and with John's encouragement I thought we could work it out. I told Danette that it felt to me like she was trying to get rid of Joanne and I reminded her of the conversation where she said that Joanne was too slow and would be better off back at the front …show more content…
No other reason was given. But I believe that she was reassigned because I was not working the process to terminate Joanne. Danette had already terminated Michelle, and was working on terminating Kathy and I believe now she was going to start in on Joanne. When Burgess told me of the reassignment I told Burgess that I believe that Danette has an agenda and that I was throwing Joanne to the wolves. Burgess offered that in the past he has seen other supervisors attitudes change and they actually became more protective of their new subordinate given a similar