Just a quick question, opinion based poll type thing for everyone. Does it seem to anyone else, besides me, that incompetency is running wild anymore in todays society? I mean, everyone makes mistakes and that’s to be understood and expected, but when you make a mistake, you’re supposed to try and make it right, in a timely fashion…right? At least thats the way I was raised.
I was just wondering if this is just an American problem, or if it is throughout the whole world.
PS: Politics in todays world without incompetency is non-existent, so we can forget about discussing that, unless you would really like to of course 🙂 (but I think you would be preaching to the choir). I am talking more about everyday life; business, stores, restaurants, gas stations, etc etc.
By: slipperysam - 13th December 2008 at 11:18
Totally agree with you….. the bottom line is that people simply no longer care about their actions. What we have a careless and thougthless society.
Though one could say that the nations which feature predominantly in the top of the lists (no doubt everyone will be up in arms ) are the USA, England and Australia.
We all seem to follow a dangerous path where our schools are the laughing stock of the world… our health systems appaulling…. have the highest rates of obesecity…. the divide between rich and poor ever increasing…. the demise of the “middle” class…..
Its not that people are “incompetent”, but more…. less informed? less caring..
Most people seem to be happy to bump about todays world in their own little world. This is very highly apparent when you watch peoples driving habbits.
Just the other day i watched a dumb teenage girl drive through the boom gates at a rail crossing as the gates went up. Sadly for her the level crossing is also controlled by traffic lights which were also still red. 5 cars followed her though while the traffic lights were still red.
That girl was also on her “P” plates…. another case of too stupid to care.
By: tenthije - 13th December 2008 at 11:00
business.
Started at a higher position at work over a year ago, had my first official job interview 6 months ago, my second official job interview 3 weeks ago, and still waiting to hear if I qualify and what my salary will be. Having asked my manager about it last thursday (after some dip**** crashed into my car) I was told that my personal situation would not be ground to rush the process, but he would do his best. Which in our company is code for: “get out of my office I got better things to do”.
Normally I refrain from posting company related horror stories since I use my actual name instead of a alias like most people seem to find necessary. In this case, I make an exception as everyone at work knows how I think of them anyway. So yeah, when it comes to how management and HR handle their staff I’d say there is a fair degree of incompetence going around.
Suppose it might be time to work on my CV now.
By: Joglo - 13th December 2008 at 10:10
😀 A good question, chuck, learning from mistakes is good, but even governments don’t seem to learn.
Another problem is the constant arrival of fresh, young, inexperienced people, who have made few mistakes yet, but will go through the never ending learning curve and hopefully learn from their own errors.
A good example at government level, are the UK foot and mouth epidemics of 1967, 2001.
Apparently, nothing was learned from the 67 outbreak or it was forgotten, which resulted in a serious epidemic that should have been contained.
Maybe DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) learned something, in 2007 an outbreak was contained.
Dr Iain Anderson was asked by the Government to chair a review of the Government’s reaction to the 2007 Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak. Dr Anderson conducted an inquiry into the 2001 outbreak. He was asked to review his lessons drawn from the 2001 outbreak and identify any others arising from the current outbreak.
No mention of 1967.
“Once is a mistake, twice is stupidity.”
We live and learn?:rolleyes:
José
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December 13, 2008 at 2:10 am