Putting The Work Hard Delusion To Rest

When I was active duty, I discovered that I excelled when I had a solidd standard to meet. I looked at 80% minimum as the opportunity to make 90% or higher. Problems arose when I started working for people who believed that setting a standard leads to people doing that much and stopping there. Perfectly understandable, but it also gives that person the chance to claim that ANY performance is sub-par so that the boss can promote and support whomever s/he wants.

@SteveOUK: Cool. I noticed when I was AD that certain things came easier to me and I started learning managing tasks much younger than my fellow enlistees... unfortunately, that led to some jealousies and later back-stabbing.

@WMHarrison94: Yup. One of the surest ways to get beaten up was to excel at something. Achievement was punished with greater burdens while just getting by was praised--if you had the right set of genitals.