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Hypothetically Speaking,
"hey i know it's a 3 day weekend and no one should be around, but i know you guys will be around cause we suck at our jobs, so here are two One Day Suspense taskers... and by one day i mean i'm telling you about it after lunch and it needs to be done by COB which doesn't exist on weekends so ASAP. Also we're not going to tell you exactly what we want, so you'll probably get it wrong and we'll be disappointed. Anyway, enjoy your 11 day workweek." /Leadership inAction!
One hypothetical response,
Off to work, be there till midnight, same deal tomorrow. They should stop teasing us with federal holidays/weekends, or stop doing Wingman days because it seems to just create additional work and crush morale on weekends. "It's the military, get used to it" Fuck that, they know very well that that excuse is completely legit in scenarios that are life and death, not office work that doesn't impact anyone for at least a month. Every time our leadership accepts this as normal, you convince a subordinate that it is, and it isn't. It really isn't. I'm not complaining about working on a federal holiday, we had no idea that there was one coming, and we didn't expect it off (we work them all the time). But then they say we have it off, even though all of us have stuff scheduled we have to do. I'm complaining about not teasing us with something we can't have when we didn't expect it in the first place.
My lesson,
So with this as a scenario for a leadership lab, i will take away from it that sometimes "things can wait until monday".
"hey i know it's a 3 day weekend and no one should be around, but i know you guys will be around cause we suck at our jobs, so here are two One Day Suspense taskers... and by one day i mean i'm telling you about it after lunch and it needs to be done by COB which doesn't exist on weekends so ASAP. Also we're not going to tell you exactly what we want, so you'll probably get it wrong and we'll be disappointed. Anyway, enjoy your 11 day workweek." /Leadership inAction!
One hypothetical response,
Off to work, be there till midnight, same deal tomorrow. They should stop teasing us with federal holidays/weekends, or stop doing Wingman days because it seems to just create additional work and crush morale on weekends. "It's the military, get used to it" Fuck that, they know very well that that excuse is completely legit in scenarios that are life and death, not office work that doesn't impact anyone for at least a month. Every time our leadership accepts this as normal, you convince a subordinate that it is, and it isn't. It really isn't. I'm not complaining about working on a federal holiday, we had no idea that there was one coming, and we didn't expect it off (we work them all the time). But then they say we have it off, even though all of us have stuff scheduled we have to do. I'm complaining about not teasing us with something we can't have when we didn't expect it in the first place.
My lesson,
So with this as a scenario for a leadership lab, i will take away from it that sometimes "things can wait until monday".
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