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It’s not limited to just the Army.....I caught two shitbags scheming to go to medical and invent some “back” issue, while several of us were on an ID run to another base because our computers were down. Best part was I had my blouse off and was asleep in the back seat of a van(no rank showing) I sat up and started taking notes and asking them both about how to do it- when they arrived at medical and found me in my blouse and I calmly told them both to do an about face and March away before they actually contributed to their courts martial proceedings. The look on their faces was priceless. But yeah, shitbags are everywhere. We had them when I was a cop, we called them RODs...retired on duty. They were the one who never got to a call first, you’d see them driving around the block until another car showed up, they would volunteer to go sit with a crazy guy at the ER, they’d take alarm calls in other districts just to avoid actual work. Uggghh "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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With virtually every profession, there's lazy people out there that want nothing more but to scam the system. When I was in the applicant stage of my law enforcement career, I was found to have an asymptomatic physical condition that (according to medical experts) did NOT present an increased risk of work-related injury/disability. The condition was discovered through a routine, pre-employment physical examination that included a back x-ray. I spent literally YEARS providing the services without pay, demonstrating I could do the job and shouldn't be disqualified due to the "hidden handicap." Ultimately, I prevailed and went on to have a full career. My condition was never an issue, but seeing scammers work the system (including some who'd attempted to block my efforts to get hired) still makes me seethe. Their "gaming" for personal profit at the taxpayer's expense does harm far beyond the money wasted on the lazy individuals, it creates a toxic environment of mistrust. "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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Transfer to the corporate environment and you'll see it everywhere. Tons of "fake it until you make it" type mentality. So many people just gaming the system and don't do any work. I'm doing about 5 departments jobs at work because these people don't do shit. Get used to it man, it's never going to get any better. In fact, it will get worse. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Worked with several. If they worked half as hard at doing their job as they do trying to get out of it... Collecting dust. | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
The world is full of people like that and worse. I'm constantly amazed our world functions as well as it does with so many incompetents but apparently systems are based on the assumption that idiots are involved. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Info Guru |
 “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Regardless of the metric used to measure the 'stupid/lazy/incompetent', it always seems to be at least 50% of the population!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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People like this all over, but if it’s a 15 year captain that’s never deployed, it is more a leadership/management problem than a shit bag problem. Pleanty of ways for a good leader to take action and boot a crap bag, than punt the problem somewhere else. | |||
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Do I get the feeling? No. Do I know? OH HELL YES! I try very hard to be "Police Sgt CPDSIG" and stay away from ""Marine Corps Sgt CPDSIG". Last week, some of my idiots pushed my buttons, and "Marine Corps Sgt CPDSIG" came out. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
This is always good advice. They can be frustrating, and it doesn't seem fair, but it is always better to not fret over what you can't control. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Does the Army no longer have an “up or out” system? A 15 year CPT? My God, that’s like a 15 year Specialist!  Why hasn’t this shitbag been shown the door already? | |||
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I guess the Army doesn't have a RIF system any more. | |||
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| Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast  |
I suppose I got lucky to have excellent bosses. While I was at HSBC then later Capital One I never felt like I was surrounded by idiots. Sure there were a few chuckleheads but they were not the majority. It was basically the opposite. I bitched endlessly about the antiquated computer systems and their many flaws. To my surprise my boss put me temporarily on a software development team whose only job was to try to break their programs and expose flaws. I actually miss working with my old team quite a bit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
I'm surrounded by them everywhere except here on SIGforum, with my colleagues at work, and in some other arenas, but yeah, my world is filled with people who are dangerous, dumb, lazy animals. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
That officer seems like a tool. I guess times are different, or maybe situations. I was fortunate having served with some really good officers. One in particular kind of mentored me. He asked what I was going to do after discharge and when I told him (I was 21 YO) I indented to go back to start college. His eyes lit up and we talked at length several times about options and how to get some of it paid for. A good guy. He came to see may the day I shipped out. No hugs and kisses and no future correspondence, but I appreciate the time he took with an E5. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I don't know about the Army, but the Air Force does. I was a 15-year Captain (10.5 years in grade) and was discharged. (I wasn't a no-good, just not good enough to make Major.) I countered by enlisting for 5 more years to retire as a Captain. Interesting times. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Political Cynic |
It’s not a feeling It’s reality. I am in the process of firing a guy who is lazy and incompetent and has risked business relationships worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He is toast. He can do the work. He’s demonstrated that. And he can do very good work. But now he just doesn’t care and I don’t either. | |||
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The longer I live the more I realize that the movie Idiocracy is becoming true. ----------------------------- Always carry. Never tell. | |||
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Corporate America is littered with the same folks. It's not limited to the Military and Government. | |||
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