The Boy on Top
Our high school had a major shake-up of its management structure a year ago. New job descriptions were written and, if a person's existing job fitted it more than 50%, they got the job. If there was a greater variation, anyone in the department could apply. So, if you were head of department and didn't apply for the new job, someone could be appointed over your head and you would be deemed to have reverted to the post of class teacher. This didn't happen.
The changes had been planned a year before and, since it meant there would be one Deputy Head rather than two, it was decided that it would be triggered by one of them getting a headship (on the cards for either of them) and leaving.
Lots of consultation, all seen as fair.
Best wishes for your colleague.
A friend of mine had a stroke four months ago. He is 34. Thankfully, he is well on the way to making a full recover, and apart from very slightly slurred speech you wouldn't know he'd suffered a stroke at all. That said, it was a very dark time for him as he'd only been married for six months when it happened.
Enjoy the wind-down, it sounds very much like it is deserved!
Strokes are not fun things in any shape or form. Glad your friend recovered well.
The wind down is more absolutely needed, deserved is another story... TB
Enjoy the final stretch .... it's a special time.
xx, c
Do you remember when I said Wifey nearly died on our honeymoon? It was because she had an acute stroke - a real bad one - when she was 26.
Two and a half years later she is still rcovering. Fortunatly were were in a very good place in Florida and she had some world leading care from world leading medics. She has been told categorically that in the UK she would have died.
Bang. One minute she was fine, the next she was literally clinging to life by the smallest of threads.
Recovering from a stoke takes 4 things. determination, good medics, time and a lot of luck.
Wifey was sacked by her employer for being disabled - they prejudged that would be unfit to work again. They were wrong and it cost them a well over a years salary to settle out of court. The bizare thing was that she was one of their HR Managers....
I wish your collegue and his family well. I trust the organisation will treat him well but I'm sure wifey would be glad to offer assitance if they don't.
My, I've a similar story in my history that didn't have such a good ending. Something I will post about some day when I have the nerve to relive it in my mind. I am so very glad to hear your wife has recovered well.
I will keep the offer in mind, but at the moment, the company is playing ball. TB
Blimey. I'm sorry to hear your story didn't have a happy ending. I went though about 3 days thinking and preparing for what the medics thought would be Wifey's enevitable demise.
Against all the odds she survived but after that I think I can begin appreciate what those, whose outcomes were not as fortune, would have had to face.
There but for the grace of God go I......
Just writing this has taken me back to a room in an intesive care ward in America. I write with goose bumps and a memory of the utter hopelessness and dispair I felt at the time.
Yes. The same has happened to me. TB
Good Luck Boy...Challenges are good. Cheers!!
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