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See, I take a slightly different view of the tweets. Take the following scenario:
You are in an organization and are in competition for a promotion or permanent appointment to a position you were acting in temporarily after the unexpected departure of your old boss. You aren't selected for the position, and someone from outside the organization gets named.
But, you very much want to stay on in the organization. What do you do?
Stay silent and allow for folks to assume you are angry and disgruntled about the fact that you were not appointed to be the boss or with the change in leadership?
Or do you go out of your way to be gracious about the decision, publicly put on a good face and express your gratitude for the opportunity and how much you appreciate working in that position and with the rest of the organization?
Now, if you are the new boss looking at current staff to determine who will stay on and who will be replaced, would you be more likely to keep someone who expresses there are no hurt feelings, appreciates all the opportunities they were afforded and expresses nothing but positives about their experience? Or someone who is bitter about the decision, or that you don't know how they feel about it because they aren't saying anything, and therefore may not be cooperative or willing to adopt your new vision?
This happens all the time. My company outsourced a large number of positions a couple of years ago. During the "due diligence" process of determining which employees would be retained, it was continually emphasized that our attitude toward the coming selections, how we behaved and the comments we made (positive, supportive and willing to work with the new vendors versus bitter and resentful) would be noticed and would be a factor in the retention decision. I was not retained...guess I didn't have a good poker face and my bitterness and resentment was noticed.
Not saying TJ isn't moving on, just that he may be playing his cards to show he has no bitterness over the decision and that he has a positive attitude in order to to improve his position in staying on.
You are in an organization and are in competition for a promotion or permanent appointment to a position you were acting in temporarily after the unexpected departure of your old boss. You aren't selected for the position, and someone from outside the organization gets named.
But, you very much want to stay on in the organization. What do you do?
Stay silent and allow for folks to assume you are angry and disgruntled about the fact that you were not appointed to be the boss or with the change in leadership?
Or do you go out of your way to be gracious about the decision, publicly put on a good face and express your gratitude for the opportunity and how much you appreciate working in that position and with the rest of the organization?
Now, if you are the new boss looking at current staff to determine who will stay on and who will be replaced, would you be more likely to keep someone who expresses there are no hurt feelings, appreciates all the opportunities they were afforded and expresses nothing but positives about their experience? Or someone who is bitter about the decision, or that you don't know how they feel about it because they aren't saying anything, and therefore may not be cooperative or willing to adopt your new vision?
This happens all the time. My company outsourced a large number of positions a couple of years ago. During the "due diligence" process of determining which employees would be retained, it was continually emphasized that our attitude toward the coming selections, how we behaved and the comments we made (positive, supportive and willing to work with the new vendors versus bitter and resentful) would be noticed and would be a factor in the retention decision. I was not retained...guess I didn't have a good poker face and my bitterness and resentment was noticed.
Not saying TJ isn't moving on, just that he may be playing his cards to show he has no bitterness over the decision and that he has a positive attitude in order to to improve his position in staying on.
