Lufthansa CEO working as a flight attendent

[PWMDMD]

Well I guess your team will occasionally go above and beyond for you, rather than regularly go above and beyond for you......

My friend, I wrote my post feeling pretty good about being able to write what I wrote because when time allows, I will do anything to help out my team. Somehow, my comment wasn't positive or good enough for you, so here we are, me feeling good because I think I'm being a team player, and you trying to tell me my good intentions aren't quite good enough. Thank you, much appreciated.

Concerning this post, you are suggesting the goal is for the CEO to work as a flight attendent regularly, and I suppose the ticketing agent, and the luggage handlers, and the fuel guy, and every other position as well, regularly. That doesn't leave very much time to be CEO. My time is pretty monopolized at work, I do what I can when I can.

 

[frankbee3]

My friend, I wrote my post feeling pretty good about being able to write what I wrote because when time allows, I will do anything to help out my team. Somehow, my comment wasn't positive or good enough for you, so here we are, me feeling good because I think I'm being a team player, and you trying to tell me my good intentions aren't quite good enough. Thank you, much appreciated.

Concerning this post, you are suggesting the goal is for the CEO to work as a flight attendent regularly, and I suppose the ticketing agent, and the luggage handlers, and the fuel guy, and every other position as well, regularly. That doesn't leave very much time to be CEO. My time is pretty monopolized at work, I do what I can when I can.

I suspect that working at your practice is a happy place to work. I like going to the dentist when everyone works well together. I think it’s neat that a dentist is hanging out at BITOG and likes cars.

 

[PWMDMD]

I suspect that working at your practice is a happy place to work. I like going to the dentist when everyone works well together. I think it’s neat that a dentist is hanging out at BITOG and likes cars.

Lol..thanks. Prior to picking dentistry as a job to support myself, I grew up with both parents working in factories in a squarely blue-collar town where I partied, smoked a bunch of pot, rode dirt bikes/quads/three-wheelers, fixed my own 1989 Dodge Daytona ES. I've worked in paving, pizza delivery, landscaping, CVS, and a few more restaurants as a cook. You, know, just a regular fellow who fixes teeth.

 

[GON]

My friend, I wrote my post feeling pretty good about being able to write what I wrote because when time allows, I will do anything to help out my team. Somehow, my comment wasn't positive or good enough for you, so here we are, me feeling good because I think I'm being a team player, and you trying to tell me my good intentions aren't quite good enough. Thank you, much appreciated.

Concerning this post, you are suggesting the goal is for the CEO to work as a flight attendent regularly, and I suppose the ticketing agent, and the luggage handlers, and the fuel guy, and every other position as well, regularly. That doesn't leave very much time to be CEO. My time is pretty monopolized at work, I do what I can when I can.

Sorry if my post was a downer.

Working in a full service gas station at age 17 in Plantation, Florida during the off-peak season (summer), times were slow and I read a book written by President Jimmy Carter while waiting for customers.

A paragraph in the book likely has haunted me since- which has pushed me to give everything my all always, no matter what.

The (paraphrased) paragraph reads something like President Carter went to see an Admiral to find out what job he would be assigned after graduating from the Naval Academy (or officer OBC- can't recall exactly), graduated in the top five percent of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a student from Plains, GA.

With President Carter's chest out and chin up high reporting to the Admiral of his top five percent achievement, the Admiral Asked Ensign Cater had he always done his best in his studies at the Academy. Ensign Carter shrunk and stated no, and the Admiral gave him a nasty look and told him to "move out".

That paragraph has haunted me for 40 years; driving me to always do my best, always.

 

[PWMDMD]

Sorry if my post was a downer.

Working in a full service gas station at age 17 in Plantation, Florida during the off-peak season (summer), times were slow and I read a book written by President Jimmy Carter while waiting for customers.

A paragraph in the book likely has haunted me since- which has pushed me to give everything my all always, no matter what.

The (paraphrased) paragraph reads something like President Carter went to see an Admiral to find out what job he would be assigned after graduating from the Naval Academy (or officer OBC- can't recall exactly), graduated in the top five percent of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a student from Plains, GA.

With President Carter's chest out and chin up high reporting to the Admiral of his top five percent achievement, the Admiral Asked Ensign Cater had he always done his best in his studies at the Academy. Ensign Carter shrunk and stated no, and the Admiral gave him a nasty look and told him to "move out".

That paragraph has haunted me for 40 years; driving me to always do my best, always.

Perhaps a generational difference but I'm not a big believer in the self-flagellation style of life whereby I beat myself up because I don't (can't) live up to the lofty goal of always "doing my best". I'm not saying I don't strive for excellence but I have gotten very good at being able to identify the excellence standard, which still typically falls short of my absolute best, and this allows me to move on with my very busy life. I'm a straight-A student across multiple disciplines and I study to understand and remember and not to memorize and forget the material. However, I could always spend more time learning something more deeply but I don't have more time to do it. The test must be taken, the paper is due, and I have other things to do as well. The same is true for almost every aspect of my life and I feel no shame whatsoever for not always "doing my best" because my standards are exceedingly high and to do my best all the time would result in diminishing returns and exorbitant time demands and the inability to obtain excellence elsewhere.

I suspect what I've written above is true for most people and when most people claim they always "do their best", it's just an empty platitude, and what they really mean is they do the best they can with the time/energy available, but that mostly falls short of their absolute best. Jimmy should've been proud to have graduated in the top 5% and instead, his nibs the Admiral, used this occasion to do some chest-thumping, making a claim that he very likely did not, or more to the point could not, have lived up to himself.