GRC All Hands Fiasco

Editor’s note: The right thing to do after yesterday’s all hands fiasco at GRC would be to air a video of the presentation by GRC Director Woodrow Whitlow. That will apparently happen today on GRC TV on Channel 13 and Wednesday at 10:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 4:00 pm. A well thought out white paper and accompanying charts would be useful for the vast majority of GRC employees who were not able to hear about the reorganization plan. Whitlow’s charts from yesterday have now been posted on the internal GRC website.

As is the case with most NASA Powerpoint presentations these charts are sloppily prepared – and the new management structure is shown with charts that say “Draft”. This presentation was apparently created by Whitlow himself since it was created on 21 April 2006 and says “last saved whitlw”.

Right now, the net result of this botched attempt by Whitlow to communicate with his workforce is that the majority of GRC employees have only word of mouth or these sloppy charts as their guide to how GRC is being reorganized. Playing the video will help – but someone should have stopped to think this out such that hundreds of people weren’t wandering around GRC yesterday.

Once again, Woodrow Whitlow owes his entire workforce an apology.