Finley was the “new sheriff” in town. He was now in charge of Arthur’s group starting on October 1st. Finley had a rather odd management style and because he was only in charge of the group for two months Arthur asked that his old team leader be included in this year end review as well. It actually was not a terribly unusual request everything considered and so Arthur told Finley that would be fine. Imagine Arthur’s surprise when the meeting invite came only for the two of them.
Finley explained that he had contacted Arthur’s old boss who said that he would refuse to take part in the review. Arthur’s experiences with the new team leader were pretty rocky so he was very skeptical to hear his old team leader would not take part. This was especially true as his old team leader was an old friend of his who had promised him personally he would take part.
Finley “don’t you trust me”
Arthur (thinking not really)
It was because of this specific example not to mention a few other events with the new team leader that caused Carrie to refuse to have her yearly review without a representative from the workers council.