re: Got fired today

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Know a Baw who owns a construction company who will not hire military. Said he made the mistake of hiring some Seabees early in his career and they were the laziest workers he’s ever hired. Different cultcha Baw.

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Not aimed at anyone in general but freshly separated military people are notoriously bad employees for the first couple of years (and usually several jobs) into their private sector careers. The longer they have been in and the younger they were in the worse they are. It is not their fault, they are not bad people because of it, it is just the culture of the military which robs them of the experience of learning to fight and scratch for their jobs from an early age.

While in the military they worked for a company that has 2 very unique qualities not found anywhere in the private sector, even government service. The military has no profit motive. None. They are also accustomed to having more money in the budget than they know what to do with. They never had a problem that could not be fixed by tossing unlimited money at it. Neither of those situations exist outside of the military. Again, not the fault of the people, its the nature of the beast. These two facts lead to a very strange management philosophy that will not translate at all to the private sector. Being managed in that environment also does not translate at all.