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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?"
i have some ocean-front property in arizona......
If Al Gore is right, that could be possible in the near future.
Then again, he's been wrong before. Remember Manbearpig?
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It was something that would happen to Dilbert.
No. In Dilbert it would have been done intentionally at the behest of a consultant in order to increase your productivity with "(Per)cussive (T)eam B(u)ilding The(r)aputic Vi(b)ration mass(age).
KFG
Look, the guy already said he didn't want to wear a uniform anymore. Beside, what makes the Girl Scouts such a great place to work anyway?
Two words:
Thin mints
You are so completely fucking wrong. If I get a resume from someone who was in the Military, I put them at the top of the list. They are more organized and get er done than most can hope for.
All right, but who's gonna take advice from a guy who uses the phrase "get er done"?
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Jus FYI... most of the world has become a "big living Dilbert strip". If you are not a part of the strip you are probably dying of hunger or some commercially non-interesting disease somewhere deep in Africa, Asia or South America.
Of course you need to be honest with your evaluation of yourself and your skills too. :)
Being your own boss doesn't necessarily guarentee you won't be working for an incompetent slave driver