Morale

[selenite0]

The Chair Force Engineer does a great job of summing up my attitude problem at work:

The morale of engineers is directly tied to the work they are given by their management. If you want to keep engineers happy, give them tasks that are worthy of their efforts. When management fails to do that, they have nobody to blame for poor morale but themselves.

He's planning on moving on to non-technical non-government work. I wish him luck. Hopefully he'll discover there's some places in the world where engineers have work worth doing.

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[tmc4242.livejournal.com]

"Fighting the Shaft": That about sums it up.

And I certainly sympathize with the desire to move away from government work. That's a primary objective at present.

On a not quite related related note, I was watching video on NASA TV last night of a celebration that had here in Dallas lately at the Frontier's of Flight museum. They had lots of big names from human spaceflight there - Armstrong and Krantz among them.

That would have been neat to attend, however, I'm glad I wasn't there.

They let Sen. Huchison speak. Her delivery was wooden and it was obvious she was trying to read the speech from notes or a teleprompter. She was not doing it well. That's not important though. The part that made me turn it off in disgust was where she quoted Neil Armstrong as having said as the first words spoken by a human on the surface of the moon as "Houston, we have landed."

Not "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

( leaving out "Contact light. Engine stop. Switches off." - I don't expect a politician to know that. )

Two of the most significant sentences in the history of the human race. And the guy that uttered them was in the room. And she didn't know them. And her speech writer didn't either. She did at least have a look pass across her face that made it look like she knew something was wrong with what she'd just said.

Heck of a way to honor Armstrong on one of his rare appearances.

Now back to being generally disgusted with politicians. As opposed to being disgusted with just one for only one reason for a moment.