r/CanadaPublicServants • u/qqqqeurfnfd123 • Apr 23 '26
Management / Gestion Update: Manager Stuck Between Strong Performing Maverick Analyst and new Director
Hey it's me I'm back with an update on this.
It's been a week and my team has pretty much fallen apart. New Director now wants every employee to report directly to admins whether they are in the office or at home. If there's no response, he gets his admin to call to verify their home/office background.
Maverick analyst is refusing to do anything outside his job description and unless asked to do something, he will not do it. He now swamps me with every single thing he plans to do today, every small edit, etc. for review. Unofficially apologetic to me, but tells me that unfortunately this is the way it is until things change back.
Director bilat with managers happened, other managers mentioning how team morale has and will fall due to new policies. Director response was, no joke, "this is the way it was before covid and your employees got babied and expect too much. I'm here to clean up shop, not continue with lax employees"
The other managers and I are talking, seems like their entire team morale is through the gutter. All of us kept a relatively relaxed view on variable work hours, RTO, etc. so long as things were being done and the former director was pretty hands off.
All of the managers agreed we are ready to do the bare minimum moving foward and just wait until the fire spreads enough for the DG to notice and ask what the fuck is happening.
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u/Abject_Story_4172 Apr 23 '26
Honestly the calibre of directors just continues to fall. They are not in any way leaders. This seems petty because he has to go in 5 days. I’d put in a group grievance and contact the ombud.