But he had only a ghost of a chance to survive. You'd get better odds on the goblin in the beauty contest. That's because the PC was essentially a list of what Haase couldn't do as finance director, a sketchy outline of a once-vigorous job description. Now, in the smoky prelude to All Hallows, the Chuck Haase story ends in resignation spurred, according to the city, not by Haase's failure to meet the PC but by low morale. The mayor and City Administrator Marlan Ferguson said that lots of folks were still feeling bad about stuff at City Hall.
Low morale is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with head on.
It's pervasive and degenerative. Gnadt and Ferguson are right to address it as critical. Everyone's morale But low morale can also be caused because an employee who used to do lots of things has had all his work farmed out to everybody else, while he continues to draw a full paycheck. He's looking for ways to use his talents, and his co-workers are overworked, stressed out and copping attitudes, fertile ground for low morale. Of course, that scary picture would not be that employee's problem.