Simple Question Right?
As I was sitting on a conference call this morning, I realized that this has been a source of frustration for me for a while. Pops always jokes about how the car engineers and mechanics that work on the cars never get along. Examples typically center around the placement of Spark plugs, oil filters, or putting a support bar across the top of the Battery compartment on a car. I think the concept applies to more situations than an engineer designing a foreign car to be sold in America using the metric system. On that note: Shout out to Toyota. Despite having easily 10 inches covering my car this morning and only the top of my tires showing, the old 1998 Camry started like a champ. PS: My battle with Mother Nature continues. Bitter whore...
Anyway, here's my point, if you're going to come up with an idea, at least have some experience of putting it into action and using it. If McDonald's has a test lab and makes people try all sorts of concoctions, at least try out your reporting tool before mandating that I have to use it. If you design a bridge, drive on it. If you're going to run the country, at least have some knowledge of what the military is about by attending a training of some sort (Notice I left out actual experience Obama). If you're coaching football, you should have played the game at some point, maybe not at the level you're coaching, but at least through high school (Mike Leach may be excepted). Hell, even the cult leader drinks the Kool-Aid. They may drink it last (if they're smart), but at least they drink the stuff they made.
So, if you're in management or some sort of compliance, at least have the courtesy to ask people that are currently in the field of ever shortening projects and programs in an increasingly competitive bidding deals if something is worthwhile before you mandate something that only increases overhead and results in them having to manage things on their own and then use your idealistic tool that adds no real value.
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Do you realize the last paragraph is also quite possibly the second-longest (first being a nearly two-pager in some book in my HS humanities class, Thanks Doris) and first most difficult sentence I've ever read? Nice job. It took me reading it twice to understand that you're bitching about work.
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