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Re: Tom...........Story time??? Please...

Posted by tom on 1/10/2006, 21:57:41, in reply to "Tom...........Story time??? Please..."
no real story--Bronze Star Award--Admiral Kelly is a great man and had been a friend for years--when his Aide gave him the award to read he called me in his office and was like-"you've got to be sh!tting me--you never said anything about this" I replied, "Why would I?"--all was understood---festivities that followed were me on my boat remebering the best times of my life and not deserving the Star----but since I typed this before I read the whole post---a story "Okay—so I am in the second year of my MBA program—now, apparently I have have become perceived as someone who is like..I don’t know---some kind of trained killer unconventional thinker who isn’t afraid to speak his mind—don’t know where THAT came from---so anyway—first day of organizational behavior II and the Professor launches into some ridiculous tirade about the “power” structure of organizations and then expounds that although we are thirty—he has all the power---so, pretty neat speech class spell bound---then the critical mistake—dramatic silence---filled by me—never raising my head from my notes but just commenting-“In my experience the person with the power is looking through the rifle scope”---I got an A-"


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