Qualifications

OK, so you are new to a job. You have little to no experience or qualifications to do what you are doing and there are people subordinate to you that conduct business that you have had no experience in. You are not really sure how to direct them, but they have around 30 years experience doing what they do and have been promoted continually until they are at the top of the food chain for their department. They are highly competent and considered the best in the world at what they do.

So, and issue arises. Your very competent and experienced subordinates make a strong recommendation, in unison. The consequences of failure to properly address this issue is total failure. Again, you have no experience to pull from so you don't have the expertise to pull this off without a bit of help. What do you do?

You are smart, have gotten to where you are for a variety of reason, not all of them good. You make your decision. You have just told your top leaders to pound sand. What kind of sense does that make? You decide to listen to other leaders in your organization that are from a completely different department who are just as equally as unqualified as you are to make educated decisions in the affected area. Only there is one person who THINKS they know what they are talking about because they were married to a person who used to have your job, but he was just as unqualified as you in the affected area. And yes, he jacked it up too. Now picture there is a large group of people, employees if you will, who are voicing their opinion. Most of them, say 95% of them, have zero experience in the affected department either, but you begin to listen to them. It's kind of like the Indians are running the tribe when the tribe REALLY needs a Chief!!

But where is the Chief? He left the job and moved to a new location.

People, you should be careful what you ask for. Cuz now you got it!

Uh......yeah.

How many TV shows and movies can you watch in a year? I'm not real sure, but I'll let you know next August. So far I have watched all of season 1 of Sons Of Anarchy and have caught up on season 2, thanks to Hulu. I have completed seasons 1 and 2 of Californication, which I was surprised to find that I really liked that show! I have now started season one of Burn Notice......I can't remember all of the movies I have watched, but it's upwards of 15 I believe.

I won't even count all of the stupid videos that I have watched on youtube. Things like "Fry That Chicken" by Ms. Peachez, "Red House Furniture" commercial, "Cullman Liquidators" commercial, dudes jumping off roofs, crashing motorcycles, bicycles, and all sorts of other dumb stuff.

It's a good thing I am getting paid extra over here. Not so much for the danger this time, but for the rotting of the brain and having to return home stupider than when I left. Can I get disability for Service Induced Stupidity? I get dumber everyday that I am here.

JMP

Bored

I'm bored. I am in a desert and I am bored. I have spent most of today playing around on Youtube pulling up music videos. I've done maybe 20 minutes of real work. How do you combat boredom like that? Usually, I would just go PT, 1) It's Sunday, that is my no PT day. 2) I have spent the past week pooping my brains out, so I don't really feel like working out.

I could go pick up my laundry. But that would require that I walk through gravel, again. Gravel, gravel, gravel. If you have never been forced to walk on gravel and gravel only for a year, you just don't understand. I will have to walk across gravel to go get chow, I'll get my clothes then. Maybe.

Shooting people is not really an option either. We don't do that here anymore. The most entertaining thing this week was judging the violentness of my poos. Even that got old quick. I can see how house wives become alcoholics and addicted to pain pills. The place where I live is encircled by a 1.6 mile perimeter and no it's not a prison. Well, not a penal type prison anyway. I see the same dudes everyday. Same food, everyday. Same showers everyday. Same weather everyday. Same routine most everyday. Wake up, coffee, skype, PT, skype, chow, meeting, f-off in office, shower, f-off in office, eat, (nap if lucky), f-off in office, PT, meeting, chow, bed. The trips I do take seem to be more of a pain in the ass than anything else.

The skype piece is by far the best part of the day. I at least get to see my kids act like a bunch of ass clowns! They seem to be more interested in making faces at themselves on their computer screen than they are talking to me, but it's still fun.

I'm so used to being bored, that now I am bored writing this blog. Bored. Bored. Bored.