In the western world, supposedly we are free, except for where there are rules or laws. Turns out, there are rules/regulations/laws for EVERYTHING. This is what happens when societies get a bit bored and comfortable.
In the developing world, they are too busy keeping "danger" at the door. And so you look around wondering where all the s…
In the western world, supposedly we are free, except for where there are rules or laws. Turns out, there are rules/regulations/laws for EVERYTHING. This is what happens when societies get a bit bored and comfortable.
In the developing world, they are too busy keeping "danger" at the door. And so you look around wondering where all the structure and order is, but then realize you've forgotten what freedom actually is.
I do charity work for the Salvation Army and help out in one of their food kitchens for poor people and we have a small sink in the kitchen for washing hands and another far larger sink for washing dishes etc. Of course everyone uses the large sink for washing their hands and all the small sink is used for is bashing and bruising people's legs as it had to be jammed into the kitchen to meet health and safety rules otherwise the kitchen couldn't remain open. We have a temperature book for all the cooked food that has to be filled in but as everything is either frazzled in the oven or boiled to death on the stove top filling in that book is a waste of time and so it isn't done but the book exists and so once in a while someione will sit down and make up some food and temperatures and bung them in the book the local council is supposed to check but never does. All these silly rules are put in place to prevent people helping one another they are not put there to make things better. It has been seen in every experiment of its kind ever done that by switching off traffic lights and getting rid of one way roads etc that traffic flows far more smoothly in a city so why aren't all traffic lights around the world switched off and why aren't all one way roads made two way as the vast majority used to be? To cause inconvenience that is all. We have far too many people, mostly women, in non-jobs preventing people, mostly men, in real jobs doing their work hence the decline of the West.
This sort of thing is reflected in the corporate world too. Manic obsessions with policies and procedures in the name of "quality" are turning even basic simple tasks into paperwork nightmares, as well as purging any kind of humanity or personal initiative. There is a perceived virtue or positive in turning every conceivable situation into a policy and the response into a documented procedure, and to eliminate any other behavior thereon. This is absolutely pervasive across all major corporates and getting worse every year. Unsurprisingly, the people I deal with appear to get dumber and dumber.
Yup. My sister was a senior nurse for nearly 40 years and has just retired but in that period the paperwork required to do anything in the NHS in the UK has been multipled by at least a factor of 5 and the system is in the process of slow collapse as a result. She also noted the absolute explosion of non-jobs in the management sphere, jobs that have titles, very good salary and retirement packages but are chock full of people, again mainly women, who as she says refuse to actually perform the tasks they are supposed to be doing so that all the NHS sees is a very much larger salary and pensions bill coupled with growing confusion as managers simply will not manage. Her experience, which was typical of her friend's also, was that her women managers wanted to befriend staff instead of manage them and men managers had to be pulled in every few months to sort out the back biting and intrigues that resulted from these policies of promoting their perceived friends over other more competent staff etc Of course we are not supposed to notice this and never ever under any circumstances comment on it.
I run a SME but work with corporate clients. I meet their supply chain teams - something like a dozen people - doing a job that my business does with 1 person. Am comparing apples to apples - similar tonnage, expenditure, etc. I literally don't even know how they do it, I couldn't invent that much make-work even if I wanted to
Excel spreadsheets are a Godsend for those who want to create non-jobs out of nothing. Simply list the five things involved in the non-job then assign a manager to each box and then break each box down into greater and greater detail of things that must be done even though it has only been done once in the last 30 years and for one client and hey presto you have a huge list of non-tasks within your non-jobsphere that MUST be completed for each and every client even though they never asked for it.
I contracted for a major engineering compliance/certification house for many years I was the head of one of the engineering disciplines and the project managers there used to follow the above procedure to create more and more "work" but the problem was they kept having to backtrack as the client would pushback and say the work wasn't necessary. This happened so often that I told everyone that reported to me that from now on we would ignore the ever growing demands of the project managers until I was sure the client was happy to go down this route. Our discipline thereby saved a huge amount of time in not having to do reworks etc whist all the other disciplines were stupidly just going along with these silly demands. The result is my discipline had contented engineers who felt they weren't wasting their time and consequently a lot less stress for us all. The other discipline leads simply weren't doing their jobs properly which was to protect their engineers from all that management "noise".
I'm a professional freight forwarder, and the larger firms in the sector are chock full of bloated middle management. Usually a highly talented and successful operations/sales/product manager who ran a high performing import or brokerage or air/ocean team. They've earned their stripes and deserve promotion, but the firm is growing too slowly to slot them into a useful position. The firm doesn't want to lose them to a competitor, or have their development stagnate. So a new position is invented just to have somewhere to promote these people. The new positions are almost always "optimizing processes" to some degree. They go from value-added roles to internal-process-optimization roles (ie from day to day bottom-line impactful to purely internal paper pushers and meeting havers. I've seen it happen more than a few times.
They don't appear to get dumber, they are dumber. People are not allowed to think. They must slavishly Walk around the perimeter when the hypotenuse is available. The last place I worked before retirement was a nuclear power plant and I quit a management job at significant cost because I couldn't do the BS methods. Because of the BS and corruption, of course, the US nuclear costs FIVE X the Korean. This cannot stand.
I'm 58 and when I was in my twenties you could drive streets that had synchronized stop lights, if you did the speed limit or less the lights rewarded you by getting to your time quicker, now it's about thwarting traffic to justify the high salaries of traffic planning analysts. Everything is done to inconvenience us
Some of it is pure grift by the municipalities. IE rapidly changing speed limits in close proximity to each other just to generate revenue from people who don't spot the changes from 55 to 25 to 45 to 25 on the same stretch of road. Or traffic light camera systems that do nothing whatsoever for safety but sure are good at generating ticket revenue.
I'm a Christian but was surprised to find that virtually none of the other unpaid volunteers are. Most are spiritual of a more eastern religion type with reincarnation being much to the fore but I believe Jesus was very much into reincarnation and that was all removed from the gospels as the idea that you were reincarnated back here meant you would be more interested in sorting here out and not in some fantasy place called heaven and therefore you would be more likely to try to overthrow inhuman orders in charge here at present so that when you came back they would be gone. The fact he reincarnated Lazarus back to here sort of gives the game away about what he believed and that was just far too dangerous an idea for the time. I think the Sally Army prefer Christians in paid positions but it isn't an absolute requirement.
In the western world, supposedly we are free, except for where there are rules or laws. Turns out, there are rules/regulations/laws for EVERYTHING. This is what happens when societies get a bit bored and comfortable.
In the developing world, they are too busy keeping "danger" at the door. And so you look around wondering where all the structure and order is, but then realize you've forgotten what freedom actually is.
I do charity work for the Salvation Army and help out in one of their food kitchens for poor people and we have a small sink in the kitchen for washing hands and another far larger sink for washing dishes etc. Of course everyone uses the large sink for washing their hands and all the small sink is used for is bashing and bruising people's legs as it had to be jammed into the kitchen to meet health and safety rules otherwise the kitchen couldn't remain open. We have a temperature book for all the cooked food that has to be filled in but as everything is either frazzled in the oven or boiled to death on the stove top filling in that book is a waste of time and so it isn't done but the book exists and so once in a while someione will sit down and make up some food and temperatures and bung them in the book the local council is supposed to check but never does. All these silly rules are put in place to prevent people helping one another they are not put there to make things better. It has been seen in every experiment of its kind ever done that by switching off traffic lights and getting rid of one way roads etc that traffic flows far more smoothly in a city so why aren't all traffic lights around the world switched off and why aren't all one way roads made two way as the vast majority used to be? To cause inconvenience that is all. We have far too many people, mostly women, in non-jobs preventing people, mostly men, in real jobs doing their work hence the decline of the West.
This sort of thing is reflected in the corporate world too. Manic obsessions with policies and procedures in the name of "quality" are turning even basic simple tasks into paperwork nightmares, as well as purging any kind of humanity or personal initiative. There is a perceived virtue or positive in turning every conceivable situation into a policy and the response into a documented procedure, and to eliminate any other behavior thereon. This is absolutely pervasive across all major corporates and getting worse every year. Unsurprisingly, the people I deal with appear to get dumber and dumber.
Yup. My sister was a senior nurse for nearly 40 years and has just retired but in that period the paperwork required to do anything in the NHS in the UK has been multipled by at least a factor of 5 and the system is in the process of slow collapse as a result. She also noted the absolute explosion of non-jobs in the management sphere, jobs that have titles, very good salary and retirement packages but are chock full of people, again mainly women, who as she says refuse to actually perform the tasks they are supposed to be doing so that all the NHS sees is a very much larger salary and pensions bill coupled with growing confusion as managers simply will not manage. Her experience, which was typical of her friend's also, was that her women managers wanted to befriend staff instead of manage them and men managers had to be pulled in every few months to sort out the back biting and intrigues that resulted from these policies of promoting their perceived friends over other more competent staff etc Of course we are not supposed to notice this and never ever under any circumstances comment on it.
I run a SME but work with corporate clients. I meet their supply chain teams - something like a dozen people - doing a job that my business does with 1 person. Am comparing apples to apples - similar tonnage, expenditure, etc. I literally don't even know how they do it, I couldn't invent that much make-work even if I wanted to
Excel spreadsheets are a Godsend for those who want to create non-jobs out of nothing. Simply list the five things involved in the non-job then assign a manager to each box and then break each box down into greater and greater detail of things that must be done even though it has only been done once in the last 30 years and for one client and hey presto you have a huge list of non-tasks within your non-jobsphere that MUST be completed for each and every client even though they never asked for it.
I contracted for a major engineering compliance/certification house for many years I was the head of one of the engineering disciplines and the project managers there used to follow the above procedure to create more and more "work" but the problem was they kept having to backtrack as the client would pushback and say the work wasn't necessary. This happened so often that I told everyone that reported to me that from now on we would ignore the ever growing demands of the project managers until I was sure the client was happy to go down this route. Our discipline thereby saved a huge amount of time in not having to do reworks etc whist all the other disciplines were stupidly just going along with these silly demands. The result is my discipline had contented engineers who felt they weren't wasting their time and consequently a lot less stress for us all. The other discipline leads simply weren't doing their jobs properly which was to protect their engineers from all that management "noise".
I'm a professional freight forwarder, and the larger firms in the sector are chock full of bloated middle management. Usually a highly talented and successful operations/sales/product manager who ran a high performing import or brokerage or air/ocean team. They've earned their stripes and deserve promotion, but the firm is growing too slowly to slot them into a useful position. The firm doesn't want to lose them to a competitor, or have their development stagnate. So a new position is invented just to have somewhere to promote these people. The new positions are almost always "optimizing processes" to some degree. They go from value-added roles to internal-process-optimization roles (ie from day to day bottom-line impactful to purely internal paper pushers and meeting havers. I've seen it happen more than a few times.
The UK builds the most expensive nukes in the world for the reasons you described.
They don't appear to get dumber, they are dumber. People are not allowed to think. They must slavishly Walk around the perimeter when the hypotenuse is available. The last place I worked before retirement was a nuclear power plant and I quit a management job at significant cost because I couldn't do the BS methods. Because of the BS and corruption, of course, the US nuclear costs FIVE X the Korean. This cannot stand.
The government protecting us against ourselves! It’s why I’m a conservative- we believe in People and not the government. Big gov’t IS our problem!
I'm 58 and when I was in my twenties you could drive streets that had synchronized stop lights, if you did the speed limit or less the lights rewarded you by getting to your time quicker, now it's about thwarting traffic to justify the high salaries of traffic planning analysts. Everything is done to inconvenience us
Some of it is pure grift by the municipalities. IE rapidly changing speed limits in close proximity to each other just to generate revenue from people who don't spot the changes from 55 to 25 to 45 to 25 on the same stretch of road. Or traffic light camera systems that do nothing whatsoever for safety but sure are good at generating ticket revenue.
I love the Sally. I'm an atheist but I always support a religion that lives it's human values.
I'm a Christian but was surprised to find that virtually none of the other unpaid volunteers are. Most are spiritual of a more eastern religion type with reincarnation being much to the fore but I believe Jesus was very much into reincarnation and that was all removed from the gospels as the idea that you were reincarnated back here meant you would be more interested in sorting here out and not in some fantasy place called heaven and therefore you would be more likely to try to overthrow inhuman orders in charge here at present so that when you came back they would be gone. The fact he reincarnated Lazarus back to here sort of gives the game away about what he believed and that was just far too dangerous an idea for the time. I think the Sally Army prefer Christians in paid positions but it isn't an absolute requirement.
The death of a society and a culture is in the hands of a low I.Q. bored bureaucrat looking to justify their existance and gain fame.
Yup. Got it in one.
Not all countries who are poorer are fighting 'danger.' I would think there is more danger in the US than countries I have been.
I did not mean literal, physical danger