The Living Dilbert?

AirmanTux asks: "Next march I will be separating from the US Air Force, after six years wearing 'the uniform', working in the closest thing to IT that the military has. For certain reasons, I've come to the conclusion that I will be more effective in serving the US public out of uniform than in it. There seems to be a common belief that the civilian sector is just as disorganized and mismanaged as the uniformed services. Do you think this is true? Are there any 'honest' places to work any more (where promotions/awards are based on work preformed and bureaucracy, and politics aren't encouraged to supplant the 'mission), or has America become one big living Dilbert strip?"

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Re:It's not as bad as Dilbert.

[AuMatar]

There's actually a reason for those forms- to get the info in an easy form for them to put into the computer system. Grabbing it from a resume is time consuming to their employees (which they're paying for) and error prone. Its far better for them to make you do it. Refusing to do so would seem a very valid reason to nix a follow up to me- if you can't follow simple instructions when interviewing, you're going to be way too high maintenance after.