Wow – I just read about 5 hospital workers in  the University of Iowa hospital system who happened to find a listening device hidden in their office. Apparently their boss had planted it while keeping the receiver in his office, so he could listen in on the private conversations of his staff.

I just can’t help but be amazed at the degree to which management standards have deteriorated over the years. Whatever it is a manager is concerned about ( he said it was complaints from another member of staff about these employees “chatting” too much) you would think there would be better ways to handle it. But BUGGING the employees?

To me this is obviously someone in a management position who has no business being there. Managing people involves  communicating with your employees in order to solve problems. And to be so incredibly insecure that you have to resort to planting a bug in order to learn your staffs’ thoughts tells me he does not possess the communication or management skills needed to supervise a group of people.

But then again, to my even greater amazement, the HR representative was in on it as well. It boggles the mind!

And to think there is a very powerful faction in this country right now trying everything within their power to eliminate unions?? Luckily these workers are part of a Union who will hopefully fight on their behalf to make sure this kind of incompetent unprofessional behavior doesn’t happen again. But what would happen if they weren’t Unionized? The answer: absolutely nothing. Which is just what every under-qualified, incompetent, inadequate manager would wish for. That way they don’t have to actually do their job and – manage people.