Miscommunication...Psalm 40:10... Dont garble the message! (and dont shoot the messenger)...If I heard that once during Marine boot camp, I mustve heard it four dozen times. Again and again, our outfit was warned against hearing one thing, then passing on a slightly different version. You know, changing the message by altering the meaning a tad. Its so easy to do, isnt it? Especially when its filtered through several minds, then pushed through each mouth. It is amazing how the original story, report, or command appears after it has gone through its verbal metamorphosis. Consider the following: A colonel issued this directive to his executive officer: Tomorrow evening at approximately 2000 hours, Halleys Comet will be visible in this area, an event which occurs only once every seventy-five years. Have the men fall out in the battalion area in fatigues, and I will explain this rare phenomenon to them. In case of rain we will not be able to see anything, so assemble the men in the theatre and I will show them films of it...
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:52:54 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015