EVIL LURKS AT MICHAEL SHIAVO'S DOOR
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Terri collapsed. Family believes husband Michael tried to strangle her. It’s a present-tense blur for finality’s sake. But the family still holds to that suspicion. And it very well could have been.
Since that collapse, Michael has served as the Evil Manager. He’s overseen the grip upon caregivers for Terri. They were threatened. He’d have them fired if they didn’t keep in line — his way.
Instead of Michael following through with his marital vows — in sickness and in health — for Terri’s good, he tried everything possible for her to exit this life. Of course he did if he tried to strangle her. Of course he did.
Have you ever worked in a place where there was an Evil Manager? I did. It was a methadone clinic where we worked night and day as counselors to help heroine addicts kick the habit. But when I was hired, the second in command despised the administrator for hiring me — a minister. Yet they were uptight for counselors, so he hired me. I also had the academic credentials he needed for another staff person.
But the second in command despised me. So she, mentoring me on the job’s initial training, trained me incorrectly so that when it came down to filing reports, I appeared not to know how to do it. I made mistakes. Finally I figured out that I was not trained properly. The second in command was an Evil Manager who was intent on seeing that the minister looked like a jerk.
I overcame her obstacle put in my way, but not without much confusion. However, when it came time for me to defend a client at the clinic, defending the client against the administrator’s lies and undercutting, I was fired. The administrator fired me for "insubordination." In other words, I would not bend to his unethical dealings with a heroine addict client. So I was fired by Evil Manager the administrator.
It happens here and there. It happened where Terri was supposed to get the best in medical care. The best would have been forthcoming if Michael the Evil Manager had not been pressing down on staff, ordering them around, threatening them with cursing and scowls. He was intent on having Terri make quick exit. When she didn’t make quick exit, his madness grew all the more hellish.
Is not this duplicated around the globe in clots where the devil’s agents hold sway — in politics, in corporate management, in schools, in hospitals, in ecclesiastical power cliques, in families? Evil Managers exist to get their selfish clutches on the helpless underling.
I wonder if Michael is another Scott Peterson. Could be.
Now he lives with a woman, has children to her. Why did not Evil Manager divorce Terri, leaving Terri in her parents’ care? Because Evil Managers grow more evil as time moves on. The devil gets hold of the demented soul and twists it in hell's hot breezes.
Terri collapsed. Family believes husband Michael tried to strangle her. It’s a present-tense blur for finality’s sake. But the family still holds to that suspicion. And it very well could have been.
Since that collapse, Michael has served as the Evil Manager. He’s overseen the grip upon caregivers for Terri. They were threatened. He’d have them fired if they didn’t keep in line — his way.
Instead of Michael following through with his marital vows — in sickness and in health — for Terri’s good, he tried everything possible for her to exit this life. Of course he did if he tried to strangle her. Of course he did.
Have you ever worked in a place where there was an Evil Manager? I did. It was a methadone clinic where we worked night and day as counselors to help heroine addicts kick the habit. But when I was hired, the second in command despised the administrator for hiring me — a minister. Yet they were uptight for counselors, so he hired me. I also had the academic credentials he needed for another staff person.
But the second in command despised me. So she, mentoring me on the job’s initial training, trained me incorrectly so that when it came down to filing reports, I appeared not to know how to do it. I made mistakes. Finally I figured out that I was not trained properly. The second in command was an Evil Manager who was intent on seeing that the minister looked like a jerk.
I overcame her obstacle put in my way, but not without much confusion. However, when it came time for me to defend a client at the clinic, defending the client against the administrator’s lies and undercutting, I was fired. The administrator fired me for "insubordination." In other words, I would not bend to his unethical dealings with a heroine addict client. So I was fired by Evil Manager the administrator.
It happens here and there. It happened where Terri was supposed to get the best in medical care. The best would have been forthcoming if Michael the Evil Manager had not been pressing down on staff, ordering them around, threatening them with cursing and scowls. He was intent on having Terri make quick exit. When she didn’t make quick exit, his madness grew all the more hellish.
Is not this duplicated around the globe in clots where the devil’s agents hold sway — in politics, in corporate management, in schools, in hospitals, in ecclesiastical power cliques, in families? Evil Managers exist to get their selfish clutches on the helpless underling.
I wonder if Michael is another Scott Peterson. Could be.
Now he lives with a woman, has children to her. Why did not Evil Manager divorce Terri, leaving Terri in her parents’ care? Because Evil Managers grow more evil as time moves on. The devil gets hold of the demented soul and twists it in hell's hot breezes.
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