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Agree completely. It's a strong signal that someone has a military cosplay fetish (which very few people with experience in the actual military do), which in t
by pinko 5y ago
Agree completely. It's a strong signal that someone has a military cosplay fetish (which very few people with experience in the actual military do), which in turn tends to come along with other dysfunctional traits. It's a warning for me that the person is not likely to be a good vendor, customer, or collaborator.
- dvtrn 5y agoMy favorite one was when a superior was explaining a plan to right-size some new machines as we slowly migrated customers onto the appliance, and some particularly aggravating issues we were having with memory consumption that upon inspection and a lot of time spent-made no real sense to us why it was occurring the way it was. "dvtrn you are to take the flank and breach this issue with Paul" And this ran all the way up to the top of the org. Senior leaders were constantly quoting that Jocko Wilink fella. It was...something. My old man (a former Dill Instructor, made for an interesting childhood) found it utterly hilarious when I'd call him up randomly with the latest phrase of the day, uttered by some director or another. To my knowledge, and I sure-damn asked, the only affinity anyone on the executive team had with the military was two of them having buddies who served.
- pjc50 5y agoYup. It's misplaced machismo, with all that implies.