replace: ought to I inform an worker I had a dream predicting his loss of life?
It’s “the place are you now?” month at Ask a Supervisor, and all December I’m operating updates from individuals who had their letters right here answered previously.
There shall be extra posts than common this week, so preserve checking again all through the day.
In 2018, I printed a letter from somebody asking whether or not they need to inform an worker a couple of dream predicting he would die on September 25, 2024 (#3 on the hyperlink). They promised to replace us after that date, and plenty of of you wrote to me on September 26, 2024 asking if I’d heard again. Right here’s the replace.
A promise is a promise!
I’d solely been working at that job just a few months once I wrote in! So far as I do know, my former worker may be very a lot alive and even requested me for a reference just a few months in the past. He was a principally good worker, however had been promoted too quick and fell into the basic entice of considering there’s a stage of seniority or administration that exists the place you not must work to construct consensus with stakeholders and might simply do no matter you want. He ultimately left for one more job, which he then left to run his personal firm, which went below after three months. He’s at one other firm and sad sufficient to be in search of his subsequent huge factor. I left the job the place I managed him in early 2021, so if I’m the latest reference he thinks might need one thing constructive to say … nicely, he may not have died in 2024, however the jury’s nonetheless out on his profession.
P.S. Because of you for telling me to not say something, and to the commenters for asking what the hell was unsuitable with me. Later that 12 months, I used to be recognized as autistic! Not one thing I take into account to be WRONG with me, per se, however positively explains why I didn’t see a difficulty with wanting to inform him (and to at the present time, I would like somebody inform me if they’d the identical dream!). I’m in a brand new job with a boss who loves my direct and strategically-minded demeanor, and I’ve gotten higher at figuring out when to not say one thing — though I now have good pals each at work and out of doors work who will inform me once I can’t say one thing.