Thank you, Madison! Your response is perfect. I read your Gen Z piece, in which you mention how the workforce needs to “accept” that Gen Z have arrived. That’s supremely true — for the first time in history, we have four generations actively working alongside one another. This has created some chasmic spaces with expectations and workstyles.

One of those notable spaces (experience) is the premise of my article, and I can appreciate that you, or anyone, would disagree with it. What I didn’t, admittedly, make very clear was that Helen was given various warnings with a performance improvement plan. I left it out because, frankly, it was irrelevant to the thesis. She didn’t know that she didn’t know, which was my sole argument — the experience of experience, or, time.

It took me eons to come to that space, myself. I had grand expectations and saw my personal faults as those of the organization. “They didn’t train me,” or “Nobody told me this.” It’s a both/and reality, sometimes, where many things are true.

You and I agree wholly that organizations need to be better stewards of their people — people are companies' most valuable assets. The dance takes two, though, and as I say, time is an excellent teacher.

Thanks for the read, and I’m excited to read more of yours, as well.