Too Little Too Late

TLTL. Too little too late.

It looks like the O3 environment is undergoing some kind of snake-like shedding of the skin. Seems this happens annually but its particularly thorough the last couple of months. Most years, the shedding is all year round and maybe you have a spike of 20% of shedding happen in a quarter. (in case you haven't understood what I man by shedding... its resignation / firing of staff).

Here are the statistics, the marketing department was annihilated last month, leaving one "new" guy left to run it. Poor fella joined us a few months ago. Export department was decimated as well leaving behind only the head and a couple of other staff to handle and teach all the new people. And then we have R&D. Engineers are resigning faster than the O3 bosses can replace them. Often, the replacements are scared off too. To date we have 10 staff resigning/ getting fired since December. That's almost 2 per week!

Yesterday, the O3 biggest boss probably suddenly understood that things are going to slow down drastically as morale dips once again. He did a TLTL action the whole day. It was uncanny behaviour. He smiled and tried to bring staff out for lunch (many politely turned him down) and even called staff into his room to nicely ask them whether they were resigning too. He gave staff he needed to stay strange things like free magazines. Its TLTL. Every one knows that you can't change the spots on a leopard. This leopard is so old and grumpy. You can't change his thinking and his emotions over night...or over weeks, or over months. It'd probably take another few years for true improvements to come to light...if ever.

TLTL in the O3 environment. Keep you posted on anymore strange occurances.