Playing the favorites game?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:24:29 -0500

In my past units, I have noticed alot of the leaderships play the favorties game with soldiers. Any where from letting soldiers out of work early to promotion. I know unit commanders have a survey that the soldiers, NCO's and officers take to get feed back, but how, if any, does the military try to keep commanders from doing this, and what can be done if it is an on going problem and how do we, as leaders stop this from happening?

Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made Nov 4 at 2013 9:33 AM

SFC Michael Hasbun — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:33:25 -0500

That's the one inescapable truth of the military, all the regulations and guidance in the world will not change the fact that we are an organization of humans, comprised of all the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures that humans are prone too..

Oftentimes the favortism can be so subliminal that the individual does not even realize they are doing it, but I agree that sometimes it can be overt.

How to efficiently purge an organization, composed of humans, of all the personality quirks that make us human is a question we'll be grappling with for centuries more..

Response by CPL Eric Allen made Jul 3 at 2015 3:11 AM

CPL Eric Allen — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 03:11:55 -0400

I have never seen this survey. But When I was in I would rather know my job then try to be that guy who has brown stains all over his nose. I used to hear my squad leader cry all the time to get his 5. Omg that was so annoying especially during deployment them when he got it he got lazy and I just laughed every time he messed up