Tone Is Everything In Leadership - Friday Forward (#510)

MAJ Byron Oyler - Kids today don't usually bother reading directions to the questions either which causes them to miss it. Often I embed something in the question just to see who read it. In the middle of the directions I put, "If you have read the directions to this question, on the bottom of page 3 write, "I want three extra points because I read the directions." You would be amazed how many DON'T write it!

MSG Thomas Currie - funny but true. I've seen it in action.

MAJ Byron Oyler - Yes, some people do well on tests, some people don't. I found that I do especially well on tests that rely on the multiple choice format. If I have ever read something, I can almost always recognize it again even if I couldn't remember it from just the question. This helped me our greatly throughout my career, especially as institutions (including the army) moved to machine-graded multiple-choice tests and tended to make the test questions simply a verbatim quote from the textbook or lecture slides because those questions were easier to defend which was the "best answer" when the developer had done a poor job with the other choices offered.

MAJ Byron Oyler -
One Of My AFSC's (MOS To Some Others) Was In Heating And Air Conditioning - And I Passed The Tests With Flying Colors - So The Geniuses To Be, Made The Decision I'd Be The Best To Do "The Trouble Shooting", And At That I Was Pretty Good BUT Put A Wrench In My Hand? - NOW We Have A Problem; -- I'd Have Been Lucky To Locate The Equipment, Let Alone Actually Repair It. - I DKS About That Aspect As I'd Actually Had No Experience In The Field - Simply The Theory But That's All I Needed -- I Would Have Been Totally Worthless As An Employee In Civilian Life. -- A Genius On Paper -- An Idiot At Work. And AIN'T Much Has Changed NEITHER.

LMBO I Just Thought Of This:
Can You Imaging What Patton Would Have To Say About The B.S. Going On Today?
He'd Probably Work Up An Army Of His Own & Lead The Charge Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Screaming "GERANAMO" !!-- "I HAVE Returned"

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney I agree 100%.

I Spotted That Phony, Blowhard, Self Serving, Egomaniac When He Was Campaigning The 1st Time, And Did Almost Immediately After I Began Listening To His 1st Speech. That Being The Case, How Did Millions Of Others Whom Vote Him In The 1St Time, Be Stupid Enough To ALSO Do It The 2nd Time? Like WTF's Wrong With These People - Blind, Deaf, Crippled AND Crazy, All At The Same Time? The Trifecta+ 1? -- His Total Beneficial Successes, When Added Up All Together Amount To A Total Of Zero. He AIN'T Done Sh*t For Anyone, With The Exception Of Himself And His Donors.

I Was Rather Fortunate -- In My Entire Career, Military And Civilian, Excluding The Self-Employment Years, I Don't Recall Ever Having A Supervisor I Disliked. Even The CO's Were Good To Me, Exceptionally Actually, One Even Arranged To Reassign Me To A Non-Existent Position And Supplied Me With A Desk & Room To Work On My Studies Instead Of My Previously Assigned Job. I'd Almost Forgot About That. -- Thanks Major - Who's Name I'm Embarrassed To Admit I Forgot. -- CO Of The 825th Civil Engineering Squadron, Little Rock AFB - Jacksonville, Arkansas --

No Idea How That Got Posed In Here, It's Not Even On The Same Subject.
And I Can't Remove It As The "Edit" Option's Missing-- OOPS, Now I Have To Go On A Search To Find Out Where It Goes & What Happened.