I recently alerted my boss to some financial problems at our Center that were caused by unforeseen circumstances. He in turn alerted the new director of the department.
As backstory, our center is largely funded by a private donation. For the past two years, the same donor has called us at Christmastime to let us know that they have given additional gifts of $1 million each. Rather than putting the money into our account, the department held onto the money and, in fact, never advised us that the money had been given. Part of my boss’s intent in discussing our financial problems with the director was to get him to release some of this money.
The director’s response has been to tell my boss that we must cut costs. He has told my boss to fire people. In particular, he has singled out my job as one that has to go.
I am seething with anger about this. I feel actual hatred toward this director. But how is this helping me? Well, it is not. I can clearly see that this is one of those things that I need to not take so personally, and yet…actually achieving that seems nearly impossible!
