You ever try prying open a crate with a banana? How about hammering a nail with a screwdriver? No? Well, for the last year, that's what I've been given. Anecdotally, anyway.
I've been given the banana....to pry open a crate. I'm still being given the banana, too. *** NEWS FLASH *** It fucking sucks!
I'm leaving my current job in less than 60 days and I feel like a complete failure. I've left nothing enduring behind that will leave the next person who assumes this position an easier job at handling the workload. Why, you ask? Because I've never been given the right tools. Because I've been under-resourced and overworked. Because I've been given a banana to pry open a crate.
It's what we do in our line of business and it's why thousands leave in the droves. It's sad, really. Because I belong to an organization that has kicked ass and taken names for the last 200 plus years. We take the objective by force and relentlessly close with, engage, and destroy the enemy by overwhelming fire, maneuver and effects. Unfortunately, the guys in the big comfy chairs at the top sit and pontificate and rally behind their GFIs (good fucking ideas) and press it on overwhelmed sub-organizations.
The only thing that keeps us motivated is good leadership at the sub-organization level. It means late hours, late phone calls, driving to the office to take care of someone and weeding through the bullshit to make mission.
I'm tapped, guys. School can't come quick enough.
