Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Blowback ahoy.

I've got BOTH a phone message and an e-mail asking for details (including who voted how, which I'm REALLY uncomfortable giving out and probably am not going to) of the turn-down of the request.

Well, I've decided: I'm going to be selfish on this. I'm not going to tie myself in knots responding right away. I've emailed a more senior person on the committee (who really should be head and not me; I don't know what I'm doing) and asked him, "what of this information am I expected to give out? What can I withhold?"

The frustrating thing is, I KNOW that all of the information has been "informally" disseminated because the group involved has someone who could easily serve as a mole on the committee - so if I don't give out information, or if I don't tell the full truth, it'll come back to bite me. Of course, it's possible the alleged mole stood on principle and said "I'm not able to tell you" but I kind of suspect, based on his mood as he walked out the door after the meeting, that that's not what happened.

I HATE office-politics.

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