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:Ex-Military IT staff described in a nutshell.

[Anonymous Coward]

My experience has been pretty much the same. Without exception, every single ex-military person I've worked with has had the most absurd power trip. Always positive too that they could do everyone elses job better than the person it was actually assigned to, with the end effect that they wind up spending far more time posturing and strutting around than actually getting anything done. Not to mention that you'll 'know' they were in the army. You'll know because they'll never shut up about how things were done differently in the army than in their current work environment.

Military

[Mark_MF-WN]

Are you insane? Ever heard of Abu Ghraib? Haitha? Or the countless incidents that place during the Vietnam war? Soldiers -- particularly American soldiers, are bloodthirsty psychopathic fuck-ups for the most part. And they've failed at nearly everything they've ever done since World War 2. North Korea? Still communist. Vietnam? Still communist. Iraq? A warzone that has yet to actuall see any of that "rebuilding" that was supposed to happen. Osama? Still free and laughing at the west.

So you have a military that accomplishes nothing while torturing and murdering people. Would you hire people that were a part of that? Why not just go down to the prison and hire some people. Get a few serial killers maybe -- no one can "get er done" like a serial killer. They're just about the most organized people you can hope to find in this world.