I had set an objective of dismantling the crony club in 2024, the leader of the three stooges announced his retirement at the start of the year with a mid-year departure so that made it pretty easy. The financial year in Australia ends on June 30, so a mid-year career ending is fine, this gives me time to reset the narrative and expose the perpetrators for what they are.

The era of dysfunction is over, the crony club is being dismantled and the remaining stooges are in disarray, they are really worried. The crony associates jumped off the bandwagon early, they have finally worked out they were being played and they are angry. Throwing their loyalty behind such a structure was always going to fail, it was just a matter of time. However, the damage to individuals by this poor behaviour has damaged careers.

The damage that has been done will take years to rectify, there are serious issues where half the staff wants to leave. People are pushing their retirements forward just to get out early, this is a pretty good indication of the state of affairs of a long-term toxic workplace. The intentional undermining of individuals that has been going on is actually criminal behaviour that breaches the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 and the previous Occupational Health and Safety Act 1984 and exposed themselves to potential litigation.

First I have to turn the workplace bullying situation around, that will be reasonably difficult but not impossible. The malicious gossip will be stopped to begin with, the head crony always denied there was malicious gossip being used as a weapon, he always stated there was no bullying occurring and certainly not by his crony appointments. There was of course evidence, when the manager is manipulating the situation, this is buried in processes in an attempt to get individuals to pack it in and quit in disgust.

There were three major failure areas that were deliberately manipulated for personal gain, that is, 1) the abandonment of quality, 2) a total disregard for safety, and 3) operating a protection racket for crony appointments. The crony club leader selected members not based on competence, instead the crony club preferred individuals that lacked the requisite knowledge and skills and owed their status to the crony club and they know they must behave as directed to maintain their unearned status. The era of dysfunction is over and people are being valued for their contribution.