A reader writes:
I work as a school teacher. I obtained an electronic mail request for a gathering with the president of our school for this coming Tuesday.
I referred to as to substantiate the assembly together with his secretary and likewise to ask how I might put together for the assembly. Her response was he simply desires to have dialog.
The assembly request was simply despatched to me by his secretary and all my interactions with my supervisor and our vp have been constructive up thus far.
Ought to I be involved I’m getting reprimanded or terminated?
It’s extremely unlikely that the faculty president desires to satisfy with you to reprimand you or hearth you; these are issues that will usually come out of your supervisor (or with a firing, generally HR). Somebody a number of ranges up from you isn’t usually going to be the one dealing with these issues, until you tousled in a very spectacular approach (that means a media consideration/lawsuits/ruined careers kind of approach, and also you’d in all probability know if that had occurred).
Issues 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 (that is the most certainly, if I have been placing cash on it)
– he simply came upon he was childhood finest buddies along with your aunt and desires to satisfy you
– your loved ones is extraordinarily wealthy and he desires you to hit them up for cash
– he desires 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 just a few ranges down, it may very well be potential)
– you’re profitable an award
– his DNA check revealed you’ve gotten the identical dad (in all probability not)
– all types of different, non-horrible issues we will’t predict
Take into consideration the entire instances you wanted to satisfy with some at work about one thing mundane and routine. It’s extremely, extremely possible that this shall be in that class.
To make this extra broadly relevant, the entire above would even be true even when this weren’t a school president. If this have been simply your boss’s boss or yet one more degree up, I’d nonetheless be telling you a similar factor. The one change I’d make can be so as to add much more non-scary potentialities to the record, usually logistical issues associated to work initiatives.
Folks generally tend to freak out when somebody above them desires to satisfy they usually don’t know the subject … however the huge, overwhelming majority of the time it’s for one thing very mundane.