On of the things that has bugged me greatly over the time I've been doing this crap work has been people getting rewarded for failure. It's the kind of thing you see in government all the time. Screw up and embarrass some one, get promoted and moved. Cause for some reason they can't fire you. Never mind the fact that in government (federal) the congress can dismiss any federal employee at any time for any reason.
But what's to be done about it. Even when I was a field commander I didn't have the power to get people off my team that seemed to be protected by some one. This led to a lot, and I mean a lot, of problems.
So why do some people feel like never getting anything right or not trying hard is acceptable? I have no idea. It wasn't the way I was raised.
The problem is that I think too many people think their problems are their own. What I mean by that is classically the problem of the troop is the problem of the commander. But the troop has a responcibility to do their job or the commander diciplines them. But what happens when not the commander's boss but the commander's boss' boss' boss is tell you that nothing you say at that level matters.
Well you end up like me, beat down and feeling worthless 'cause your hard work and atempts to go beyond what is expected don't mean anything.
When failure is accepted, winning means nothing.
That's one of the reasons I get beat down so much. Because I get the same rewards as those who never do anything. Yet something in me still screams to try and keep trying. I just get so beaten down though.
Its also not like I never screw up, but when I do I try not to do the same thing again.
I just wish some other people thought that way.
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