Class test 05

The Situation:
In the morning, you give out two different assignments to your crew. You tell half the crew to come with you in a patrol truck to a ditching operation site and you tell Tony, Mike and Jim to follow you in another patrol truck to a site to cut brush. You stop at the brush cutting site and get Tony, Mike and Jim started and then you go on with the other half of the crew to the ditching operation site. When you return to the brush cutting site after two hours, you notice that very little of the brush has been cleared. You ask the crew why this is, and instead of responding to you, they slowly and quietly turn back to work. At the end of the morning, Tony privately asks you why you had the best part of the crew out cutting brush for half the day when there were more important things to be done.

Questions:
How do you respond to Tony?
What else do you do?

The Situation:
Mike was turned down for winter shift assignment to a reload location that he wanted. This particular reload location is closer to Mike’s home than the main residency, but it is only open in the winter. A special crew worker with more seniority than Mike was given the assignment instead of Mike. Mike grieved because he felt that special crew workers were not supposed to displace residency workers. Mike has just been notified that his grievance was denied. Mike is still upset and does not accept the reasons for the denial of his grievance. You feel you need to explain things to Mike to keep up his morale.

Question:
What do you say to