September 24, 2005
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Well the two days of work after returning from Spokane basically sucked
(Spokane itself was beautiful – great weather and not so stressful
days). I had major personnel issues to deal with Thursday and
Friday, including a very tense interview with an angry 6’10″ guy, and
coordinating an investigation of alleged “bad” acts (it’s part of that
lawyer thing – can’t be more specific on a public page). Plus,
one brother and his family boarded up their Houston house and decided
to ride out the hurricane there. My oldest brother evacuated from
Beaumont and was completely out of touch for 12 hours. And,
several cousins and my elderly aunt decided to stay in Beaumont despite
the mandatory evacuation orders.So, Friday was just a very tense day until about 4:30, when my oldest
brother finally got through to tell me they were safe. Took them
a total of 14 hours to get from Beaumont to Dallas, but when they
finally arrived we ordered dinner delivered and went through a couple
of bottles of wine. Everyone slept well, we’ve been in touch with
all the family still in Beaumont and Houston, and we’ve been watching
the news all morning hoping to find out how much damage there is in
Beaumont. So far, the news media has talked about Houston and
Port Arthur, but hardly anything about Beaumont. Can’t figure out
if that’s good or bad. At any rate, they’ll probaby be here a few
days.My cats are going nuts because they brought their birds, and we’ve got
them locked in their cages in a back bedroom. You can hear the
cats pawing at the door and expressing their displeasure at not being
allowed to play with our new room-mates!
Comments (2)
An interview, like deposition or investigation, or where you were interviewing him for a job, position, or something? If it’s some sort of oppositional thing, do you have a guard present? It’s not really fair to put you in a situation with a big angry man that might harm you. Of course, when is life or work fair, but I hate situations like that.
Interview as in firing him. I wasn’t alone with the guy – had an HR rep with me. And yes, we had a security guard present just outside the conference room, which has a large window through which he could make sure the guy didn’t get physical. I set up the room so that there were no objects the guy could throw and brought my cane in, in case I needed a weapon. It went OK but was nonetheless NOT what I needed that morning.