LETTER: Enfield Loses Its All-Star Hitter

Susan Lather has indicated she will be soon leaving her position as head of the Enfield Senior Center. Enfield has just lost its number one “All Star” player. Over her fourteen years as head of the Enfield Senior Center, she has created with her staff a center which is the envy of our surrounding communities. She has been lauded by all of her previous supervisors with exemplary evaluations, while offering and building many programs that meet the needs of the center's patrons, “not an group easy to please."

In March of 2016, a new manager for the social service department was hired and she has not been happy with Susan’s performance, as indicated with at least two negative performance appraisals which she tried to place in Susan’s personnel file. As a manager, when you want to force someone out or remove someone, that is the road you take.

Every great athletic team or top notch organization has to have superstars or they don’t rise to the top. Good managers are able to work with their top players, place them where they can help the team the most, give them the materials they need to succeed and get out of their way. Mediocre or poor managers don’t have the confidence or ability to handle that, so they micromanage or in some cases force out the leading hitter and the team fails, but the inept manager still is running the team if the owners allow it.

“Hey, we are the owners.” This manager has forced out our number one hitter and we have the wrong person leaving. It’s time for every owner who walks in the doors of the senior center to call their council member and demand that they rectify this injustice. It’s probably too late to get back the number one hitter, but we sure as “Hell” don’t have to have this manager (Social Service Director) micromanage the center and see it deteriorate.

Phil Morton
Enfield

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