The Perfect General IRL

[Zakhal]

In the workplace,


things are not going all well in the big corporation. You think you know how it should be fixed. You carefully plan and express it properly. Its all you can do as soldier. Its the best you can do.

Isnt worklife a wargame in itself?

[vonRocko]

Hmm...They let you drink at work?[:'(]

[Bamilus]

The only thing that came to my mind after reading this thread ...... lolwat

[Zakhal]

If you didnt understand my message - well who cares. Good summer holiday to you all! :)

[Andrew Williams]

It's Winter


Work is not a wargame - wargames are fun

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: vonRocko

Hmm...They let you drink at work?[:'(]

It is Finland. I would be more surprised if they did not let him drink.

[MajFrankBurns]

ORIGINAL: Andrew Williams

It's Winter


Work is not a wargame - wargames are fun

Not all of them Andrew as I find no fun in WitP and it's a wargame. I find no fun in Eastern front wargames of any kind. Playing Germany vs Russia just isn't fun. Give me Patton vs Rommel any day. Give me Stuarts in place of T34's any day. [:D]

Now as far as work being war? Well, it can be when fellow employees try to act like your sargent or captain and they don't even have a privates stripe. You could literally say though that life is a battlefield although Pat Benatar said love was.

[JudgeDredd]

Pat Benetar was hot

[SlickWilhelm]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Pat Benetar was hot

Maybe so, but Linda Ronstadt was hotter!

[sullafelix]

10-4 Stone ponies

[Missouri_Rebel]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd


Maybe so, but Linda Ronstadt was hotter!

And so it is settled.

[bairdlander2]

Reality is for most companies you follow "chain of command" when you have something to gripe about or for an improvment.I use to think it was funny when one of my suborinates would tell me they were going to complain about me to the company president instead of following chain of command,which was a concept they couldn't grasp.of course when they did see the company president walking around and complain to him I knew full well he would ignore them,which he did.He would listen to what they have to say and that would be it.It was funny later when they would complain to me that they complained about me to the president and nothing was done.Always follow chain of command.I think the fact that the president as a former British infantry officer was probably more angry at my suborinate for not following chain of command then he was a me for their petty complaint.

[Knavery]

I had it out with one of my managers today. I'm sure most of you have been told, "We need this done by EOD as it's urgent." My response is usually, "Isn't everything urgent?"
 
At my place of employment, we have a three day turnaround to process change requests. I was pinged by one of my managers through our company chat tool asking me to complete a change. I asked him what the change number was, but he didn't reply. A short while later he said the request was currently being created. I told him tough luck as we have a three day turnaround on changes and that I have MORE urgent stuff on my plate that needs to get completed.
 
The problem with these managers is that they think waiving a wand will get these things done. Forget the fact that they break every process in the book that they themselves preach to everyone else.

[Jeffrey H.]

ORIGINAL: Zakhal

In the workplace,


things are not going all well in the big corporation. You think you know how it should be fixed. You carefully plan and express it properly. Its all you can do as soldier. Its the best you can do.

Isnt worklife a wargame in itself?

For me, there are some very similar elements. Mainly in the way I approach jobs and devise strategies.

[sprior]

The problem with these managers is that they think waiving a wand will get these things done.

The Veruca Salt methodology of management. We have some of those too.

[Q.M]

ORIGINAL: Knavery

I had it out with one of my managers today. I'm sure most of you have been told, "We need this done by EOD as it's urgent." My response is usually, "Isn't everything urgent?"

My response is usually "A fack up on your part does not automatically constitute an emergency on my part"

Which usually ellicits the reponse from my Director something along the lines of.."FIX IT"

ORIGINAL: Knavery

The problem with these managers is that they think waiving a wand will get these things done. Forget the fact that they break every process in the book that they themselves preach to everyone else.

Sounds like me. Then again, I am a retired Infantry Warrant Officer (Sergeant Major)[;)]

[Andrew Williams]

And in this millenium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0B6xobUPY

[Zakhal]

And to end this thread:

The Queen And The Soldier

[Boarspear]

Yes, and in work they generally discourage you from making a massive retaliation when attacked, and you have to smile and play nice. In wargames you can play dirty and not smile and feel great!
They don't call us grumblers (grognards) for nothing!

Boarspear -- formerly known as Boar but cannot get the server to recognize my email ... which may of course be entirely my fault.