WWYD? Work related.

A friend of mine, Gary, (not his real name) oversees a group of managers for his region. Gary has not been employed very long with his company (less than 3 months) and has been asked several times by his boss, Nancy, "when are you are going to write up Chuck (not his real name)?"

Gary previously communicated multiple times to Nancy what his plan is for Chuck (to his defense, Chuck is a recent new-hire and inherited a very bad team that should have been fired long before he even started). Since that wasn't the case, Chuck has been cleaning house and recently hired four new directors and all are set to start this month.

Nancy agreed with Gary's plan (let's clean house, give Chuck the people he needs and who want to be on his team before we truly evaluate Chuck). She agreed all this time with Gary's plan, only adding that she would like to give additional support to Chuck. This was all set to go, until at the very last minute, Nancy said she did not have any resources to provide to Gary and to make do with what he has. Fine, no issues on Gary's part.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and Nancy is again asking for plan to "write up Chuck" ignoring the fact that she didn't follow through on what she said she was going to do. Chuck doesn't talk too much to Nancy, however Nancy has a severe disliking for him (almost personal).

A couple of things about Nancy:

- she's a woman
- she runs the company
- she makes impulse decision
- she's very reactionary and knee-jerk
- she fired someone after only 5 weeks of being with the company

What would you do if you were Gary? He doesn't support the write-up but knows that if he doesn't write up Chuck, he may be fricked by Nancy.