Is this calmness just an eye of the storm?

I had a really nice lunch time yoga class today, most of the class consisted of spinal and side work and people really seemed to enjoy it. Even during the meditation when Art insisted on standing on his head an waiving his legs, the others have started getting used to him so they were able to concentrate more on their own practices. I don't appreciate what he's doing, but I guess this is a lesson of acceptance and self-judgement for me... other reason I let it be is that today was his last time with us, his contract is running out on Monday so the problem disappears sooner rather than later.

So after the class I was talking to Al and Istvan (who was a first-timer) when this guy bursts in, obviously quite agitated. He was visibly shaking and waiving a stack of papers in his hand, shouting and demanding to see the person who is the boss of our QA manager - well, this is what we found out after he calmed down a little. He had been to an interview and had been there for two hours, first in an interview with our functional and automation heads, and then doing a test, and lastly talking to our manager... who apparently had rubbed him in a totally wrong way. It's true, our manager can be quite blunt - I don't know if it's a language issue or what, but I totally sometimes think she's very rude and disrespectful of us. This poor guy had apparently said that he thought QA is easier than development which she hadn't taken well to, and asked him some questions that he wasn't able to answer (this was from her later on) and had been quite blunt.

The thing is, the boss of our manager is our CTO and we seriously didn't think he would want to talk to this guy. Our receptionist was on lunch too, so we just left him in the lobby - downstairs there was quite a lot of commotion... apparently this guy had been shouting and screaming while leaving her office and everyone was just really excited about it - let's face it, it's not often this much entertainment is provided in the office. So we were sitting down sharing stories of this loony and laughing when it turns out that this guy had actually been recommended by a member of our team, the sweetest imaginable girl called Grace who was actually feeling really bad about the whole thing... so I started feeling really bad for her - she's one of my yoga students too, and an absolute sunshine.

At this point I really had to get some lunch so we left, but apparently Grace had been able to calm her friend down and send him home. Well he obviously failed the test on how to get along with out manager... I don't think though that most people realized the impact of this thing - he had apparently been been shouting for a while upstairs and the whole company was coming to us asking for the gossip on this guy and what had our manager done to upset him so. Sad thing is that I knew what people would think, which was proved soon enough: that the guy was right and that our manager is driving other people mad too and I can't totally fault them for that. It will reflect really badly on the whole QA department. Hopefully nothing else comes out of this.

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