Tip O' The Day

[Boomer]

I am always confounded by people who insist on being total idiots in any professional atmosphere. I work with three of them, and they dont have a common sense bone in their bodies. There have only been a couple in my career who I would follow into the muck and mire with. They are natural leaders, ones who compliment you with high praise on a job done right, and pull you aside and "teach"...not reprimand on less than nominal job performance. One of them is now a four star admiral at the Pentagon. Another runs an engineering firm I used to work for, but was laid off due to lack of work (lousy darn dot coms anyways). One that USED to be like that is my business associate. Lately he has turned into more of a Scrooge than anything else. Not sure if that magical age of 62 has him down or if he is just suffering from high blood pressure and lack of a love life.