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calimary

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36. Your overriding idea here, which I totally support, is the CEO's ability to trust his/her staff.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 12:52 PM
Oct 2016

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If I were incoming, as the chief executive, I WOULD make it a priority to surround myself with MY people. People who share MY view, MY agenda, people who are flowing along in the same current as I am. No contrarians who are there to throw monkey-wrenches into things. No saboteurs. NOT EVEN those who sit back, in arrogance (as I've personally WITNESSED as a professional in the working world) and CLAIM they're just being a "Devil's advocate". All they're doing is shaking their dicks around hoping to show off how big they think they are. Pardon the crudeness, but in my own personal experience, such individuals have ALWAYS been male. Folks like these view themselves, with some smugness, as "disruptors."

Keep in mind, too, those "disruptor" types only want to disrupt. They NEVER have the next step. They NEVER have any solutions. They NEVER go to "I want to disrupt - because we need to fix this or we need to change that". They just wanna disrupt. Tear it all up. And once they got their way, they'd be outta here. They just want to wreak havoc, and then maybe watch the hysteria and mess and wreckage afterwards like spectators in the Roman Colosseum games. With no involvement, no personal stake, no interest in helping or contributing. Nothing. They just like to stir shit up for the sheer fun of stirring shit up.

I would not want to have one of those in my department. Especially since I HAVE had one of those in my department, and it was FUCKING MISERABLE! And there really were no positive results from it, except for me. I got the hell outta there and into a new job AWAY from there, out of range of any further bomb-throwing from some self-flattering "back-bencher" (look back to the rise of Newt Gingrich, for example, and how he swaggered around as a newly arrived "cub" Congressman, determined to make a name for himself - AS a disruptor - "I'M a BACK-BENCH BOMB-THROWER!" he'd boast. Yep, those were his very words).

The "bomb-thrower" in my case did indeed get my job after I left, as she'd schemed to accomplish, but then it became one of those inevitable "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it" type things. She had NO IDEA what was in store for her as acting news director. She had NO IDEA the shit she was going to have to deal with. Departmental problems, INTER-departmental problems, staffing complications, ego-juggling, boring management staff meetings that only consisted of different department heads trying to massage their reason for being to the general manager seated at the head of the conference table, the memos, the budgetary constraints, the employment hassles and headaches, that one staffer handling morning news who routinely called in sick late Sunday night and you had to scramble to cover the Monday morning shift at the last minute, the staffers who didn't get along and had to be dealt with strategically and psychologically, loads of personality conflicts and seniority issues, all that shit. This little girl, fairly new in town, with basically ONE earlier job at ONE other station on her resume, had never been in management before. Had NO clue. And of course, didn't think she needed one (after all, she was blonde with big blue eyes and long legs and always very short skirts). So she was totally unprepared. And that was only in one avenue (out of many). AND it didn't help the ratings, didn't help the morning show, didn't create some magic within the station, and didn't stop the catty comments in one of the newspaper columns that singled her out for mispronunciations and factual errors. ME they called a "respected journalist." They described her as a "sidekick news-reader." Meanwhile, as she was in way over her head, struggling to juggle all that, I landed yet another job where, bewilderingly enough, once you made permanent, you became like a tenured teacher and you COULD NOT be fired. In broadcasting, no less!

No. I think Comey has to go. If Hillary wins, there's no way she can trust him. I don't see how she could feel comfortable with someone like him on her staff. Someone who has VERY probably violated the Hatch Act and BROKEN THE LAW. Just in general, he would be viewed as a rogue agent. As the hapless CON Kevin McCarthy once said at the very dawn of this campaign season, making up a new word as he went - "untrustable." And if she didn't feel that way, I'd bet many on her staff would feel that way. It's a bad way to get started. The bad blood would have to be purged. Because he's TOTALLY compromised now. There are multiple reasons why NO ONE on either side would feel totally comfortable trusting him. If, Heaven forbid, Trump were to win, even he - OR his staff - would not trust Comey, either. Because the underlying concern would be - "how soon does he pull one of these on US? (After all, remember last July?)"

Exactly Dem2 Oct 2016 #1
I truly believe, he for ever made FBI impartial ... If FBI starts interfering in elections MyNameIsKhan Oct 2016 #3
Or be fired! yallerdawg Oct 2016 #2
THAT would be seen as politically motvated and wouldn't work Dem2 Oct 2016 #7
Comey broke precedent with his first foray. yallerdawg Oct 2016 #11
After the election Dem2 Oct 2016 #12
The first time workinclasszero Oct 2016 #18
I agree. I guess people say it would look bad, but I say do it! Joe941 Oct 2016 #34
Like I said earlier cilla4progress Oct 2016 #4
Comey: The timing of this announcement is 110% NOT political. Rocknrule Oct 2016 #5
Its 200% political. JoePhilly Oct 2016 #10
I wonder what the House Conservative Caucus has on Comey... Raster Oct 2016 #6
Hell the man is a republican workinclasszero Oct 2016 #19
He switched to Indie in 2013 underthematrix Oct 2016 #26
If he is not fired I will have lost my respect for the FBI's objective role in seeking justice ooky Oct 2016 #8
Welcome to DU, ooky! calimary Oct 2016 #29
Thank you. If Hillary survives this fascist, partisan attack on our freedom and wins the White ooky Oct 2016 #32
Your overriding idea here, which I totally support, is the CEO's ability to trust his/her staff. calimary Oct 2016 #36
Can relate to your experience ooky Nov 2016 #37
Office politics. YUCK!!! I HATED them. calimary Nov 2016 #38
Tender your resignation Comey. You turd! ffr Oct 2016 #13
This is by Paul Callan, "legal analyst" for CNN, not one of their usual lightweights. spooky3 Oct 2016 #14
Comey's Lack of Judgement Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #15
Just wrote my two senators outlining the last sentence in the first paragraph ffr Oct 2016 #16
I certainly believe Comey should resign or be asked to leave. Akamai Oct 2016 #17
Good for them, they'll probably be the only network that steps up to the plate. George II Oct 2016 #20
He never should have been appointed. duffyduff Oct 2016 #21
5, 4, 3, 2, 1... BACKFIRE!!! (n/t) Puzzler Oct 2016 #22
He should tender his resignation Xipe Totec Oct 2016 #23
Stop James48 Oct 2016 #24
Absolute crap. Demsrule86 Oct 2016 #25
Bullshit. Lord Magus Oct 2016 #28
COMEY doesn't work for Congress he works for the American people. DLCWIdem Oct 2016 #30
It is not his "duty" to keep Congress informed. Where did you come up with that? randome Oct 2016 #35
Resignation isn't good enough, he should be indicted and imprisoned. -nt- Lord Magus Oct 2016 #27
+1,000!!! AgadorSparticus Oct 2016 #31
Comey needs to go away. And so does that destructive fuckhead, Weiner. (nt) Paladin Oct 2016 #33
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