A reader writes:
I work as a university teacher. I bought an electronic mail request for a gathering with the president of our faculty for this coming Tuesday.
I known as to substantiate the assembly along with his secretary and in addition to ask how I may put together for the assembly. Her response was he simply needs to have dialog.
The assembly request was simply despatched to me by his secretary and all my interactions with my supervisor and our vp have been optimistic up so far.
Ought to I be involved I’m getting reprimanded or terminated?
It’s extremely unlikely that the school president needs to fulfill with you to reprimand you or hearth you; these are issues that will usually come out of your supervisor (or with a firing, generally HR). Somebody a number of ranges up from you isn’t usually going to be the one dealing with these issues, except you tousled in a very spectacular manner (that means a media consideration/lawsuits/ruined careers kind of manner, and also you’d in all probability know if that had occurred).
Issues this assembly may very well be about:
– he’s assembly with a smattering of individuals throughout the group to get enter/take temperatures/do a basic meet-and-greet (that is the most probably, if I have been placing cash on it)
– he simply discovered he was childhood finest buddies along with your aunt and desires to fulfill you
– your loved ones is extraordinarily wealthy and he needs you to hit them up for cash
– he needs your enter on one thing involving your boss (this one is unlikely given his place, but when he weren’t the president and was as a substitute just a few ranges down, it may very well be attainable)
– you’re profitable an award
– his DNA take a look at revealed you’ve got the identical dad (in all probability not)
– all types of different, non-horrible issues we are able to’t predict
Take into consideration all the instances you wanted to fulfill with some at work about one thing mundane and routine. It’s extremely, extremely probably that this will probably be in that class.
To make this extra broadly relevant, all the above would even be true even when this weren’t a university president. If this have been simply your boss’s boss or another stage up, I’d nonetheless be telling you an identical factor. The one change I’d make can be so as to add much more non-scary potentialities to the record, usually logistical issues associated to work tasks.
Individuals generally tend to freak out when somebody above them needs to fulfill they usually don’t know the subject … however the huge, overwhelming majority of the time it’s for one thing very mundane.