Originally Posted by
josephfeatherweight
Shaggy, you're a dangerous radical - 2 years JOC posting for you!
How are you going to develop your Officer skills in preparation for that promotion you don't want if you don't do a crappy desk job?
Ha! Well actually that sort of happened already. I threw in the towel 18 months ago when a flying posting turned into Wing trip hazard guy after arriving in location.
Them: You're now trip hazard guy.
Me: Congratulations - you're now short a pilot AND a trip hazard guy.
For anybody interested in why this stuff keeps happening, read this organisational paper on "Functional Stupidity". Your mind will be blown.
http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15604/1...ed%20final.pdf
From the paper:
Functional stupidity is organizationally-supported lack of reflexivity, substantive reasoning and justification. It entails a refusal to use intellectual resources outside a narrow and ‘safe’ terrain. It can provide a sense of certainty that allows organizations to function smoothly. This can save the organization and its members from the frictions provoked by doubt and reflection. Functional stupidity contributes to maintaining and strengthening organizational order. It also can motivate people, help them to cultivate their careers and subordinate them to socially acceptable forms of management and leadership. Such positive outcomes can further reinforce functional stupidity. However, functional stupidity can also have negative consequences such as trapping individuals and organizations into problematic patterns of thinking, which engender the conditions for individual and organizational dissonance. These negative outcomes may prompt individual and collective reflexivity in a way that can undermine functional stupidity