A miserable pile of secrets

Being excluded sucks. I know this first hand. And now so does my co-worker. Our departing colleague is having a reception thrown for him, which was apparently by invitation only, and was supposed to be a surprise. I'm not sure how our other co-worker found out, but she asked me why she didn't get an invitation, and since at the time I thought this might have been an open reception I gave her a number to call to rsvp. Well - when she called she was told her name hadn't been on the list of the invited, and that was why she never received an invitation. Christ on a tightrope, you should have seen how bent out of shape she got. So, not only did Co-worker Barbie's™ feelings get hurt, my other co-worker had to be told about his formerly surprise goodbye party.

The other glaring example of the fact that secrets just cause more harm than good - again, from today - is that I guess no one has bothered to clue some of our staff (me included) into the grand plan for this reorganization that's upcoming. So, speculation and rumors are flying, and there are some rather unhappy employees who have more questions than answers. I was told to give them all reassurances in our planned peon meeting tomorrow...but...isn't that their supervisor's job? I have enough work for two or three people, there aren't enough hours in the day, I get more and more projects on my desk every time I turn around, my morale is low and my frustration is high, I'm being completely left out of the loop, and you want me to reassure the staff?! When the hell is someone going to give me some damn reassurance?

Besides - we all know it's going to go down like this:

And then this will be the end result: