I am typing this right now while I am at the drill hall looking for jobs, and reading Sigforum.

I turn 51 in Dec and I completely agree.

I absolutely abhor the new army and the people they are pinning bars and stripes on.

One example:
All 12-15 of us in this training unit has to take a PT test tomorrow at some ungodly hour because someone in command/brigade lost all the PT cards. Why do we have to be here at 0600hrs when there is nothing on the training schedule the rest of the day.

I am missing a shutdown in Arkansas for this. I could be getting my vehicle inspected for VA.

I have no problem following/listening to authority when they are somewhat competent.

Maybe it is a good thing I haven't went back to LE.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
If I worked 70 hours a week no one would want to even be around me.

I hope to cut back to 70 in a couple years.

I'm planning on "retiring" when I turn 70 in about 5.5 years. I'm going to limit myself at that point to no more than 40 hours a week

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:

quote:

Originally posted by 1s1k:
If I worked 70 hours a week no one would want to even be around me.

I hope to cut back to 70 in a couple years.

I'm planning on "retiring" when I turn 70 in about 5.5 years. I'm going to limit myself at that point to no more than 40 hours a week

Sounds horrific. I used to do that until I was about 30 and then woke up to the fact that I was literally working my life away.

Wait until you are 70.
I don't question authority or disrepect it. I simply don't recognize it. I find it amazing that this doesn't seem to bother anyone when people view you as a probably harmless old man. It becomes comical

There are 2 sides - the outward display of respect and the inner.

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Originally posted by nasig:
Wait until you are 70.
I don't question authority or disrepect it. I simply don't recognize it. I find it amazing that this doesn't seem to bother anyone when people view you as a probably harmless old man. It becomes comical

It comes out in other ways too, when your younger colleagues ignore your comments in meetings. Ok by me, go ahead and hang yourself when your shit breaks (and I'll have to fix it for you). Case in point - some time ago a very hot shot younger software developer came into our company, well liked by our clients and the company management, wrote a major interface using a small shortcut that I told him could crash and burn his system if he didn't take a little extra time to do it a better way. He completely ignored me, wasn't interested in the old man had to say. A little while later, after a successful rollout and some time in service, his stuff crashed and burned during a nightly run. After he figured out what had happened, the thing that I told him could happen actually did happen. These days sometimes I don't bother bringing stuff like that up, the old man apparently doesn't count any more. Well is some ways it's true to some degree, but damn sometimes it provides some entertainment value, at least as long as they don't ask me to fix it for them after having warned them during exploration and planning meetings.

You can't blame them, some of us made the same mistakes, discounting the advise of more experienced people.

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Originally posted by nasig:
Wait until you are 70.
I don't question authority or disrepect it. I simply don't recognize it. I find it amazing that this doesn't seem to bother anyone when people view you as a probably harmless old man. It becomes comical

I've pretty much discovered the same, although no one seems to want to try to force their authority on me anyway.

A) Pretty much view all bureaucrats and politicians as vermin, until and unless proven otherwise - and the altered status will never move beyond provisional.

B) Yes, Sr. Employees are given much more freedom than young ones.

New Guy does something other than he was told and its usually, "Stupid, what were you thinking?"

Sr. Man does something other than he was told, and its "OK, why did you do that, and either lets change the SOP, or never do that again, and document not to ever do that again."

What I get a chuckle out of are the idiots who have convinced themselves that they are an authority. It’s all about control for most of them. Yes, the older I get the less I tolerate them, and the more I call them out for it. What a disgusting way to go through life.

We called it the KMA club when I worked for the State. Once you hit 20 and had a lock on your pension, your tolerance for BS pretty much disappeared. As long as you didn’t get caught with a felony, you could mike drop your retirement with no notice. I stayed for 22, purchased my military time and left with 25 years of service. Left the job on a Friday and started with the Feds on Monday. Retired from that 1 April 2019 and have been enjoying retirement ever since.

No argument here. Wait till you're 84 and see how you feel.

flashguy