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Chain of Command
Sep. 8th, 2009 09:44 pmThere are a lot of things that sound good in theory. Actually, most things sound good in theory. One of things that is not fun in real life is chain of command.
In theory, as aforementioned, it is very nice as an idea. We can't have all the people lower down in the hierarchy mob the people at the top, can we? Congestion, inefficiency....It's all good and fine as an idea.
But when you actually put it into practice, things go a bit--well--not the way you planned. For one, if you have a long chain of command (ie. more than two or three people) then messages get lost. Especially if they're by mouth. And if they're busy people. If they don't get lost, the message is often received too late, and there really was no point sending it, was there? On the off-chance something does successfully go up the chain of command, the lucky/unlucky (pick one) person up at the top has to make a decision and then send that back down the chain of command. This is a time-costing procedure, folks; this is why most humans forget about trying to go through the chain of command, if it exists, and just going after the person who can do what you were asking for or answer your question.
In theory, as aforementioned, it is very nice as an idea. We can't have all the people lower down in the hierarchy mob the people at the top, can we? Congestion, inefficiency....It's all good and fine as an idea.
But when you actually put it into practice, things go a bit--well--not the way you planned. For one, if you have a long chain of command (ie. more than two or three people) then messages get lost. Especially if they're by mouth. And if they're busy people. If they don't get lost, the message is often received too late, and there really was no point sending it, was there? On the off-chance something does successfully go up the chain of command, the lucky/unlucky (pick one) person up at the top has to make a decision and then send that back down the chain of command. This is a time-costing procedure, folks; this is why most humans forget about trying to go through the chain of command, if it exists, and just going after the person who can do what you were asking for or answer your question.
