One odd question is the one about mountain climbing, cave exploring etc. Those are to some degree risky activities. I do not see how being a risk-taker is necessarily a desirable quality in a shelter manager (“Radiation levels outside might be okay, so we can leave.”)
I've been in a situation or two where, when in a group of strangers, I've said "I'm a teacher" and everyone else in the group immediately voted me to be in charge. It's nice to know the DCPA agreed.
But honestly, teaching is 99% relational, so managing strangers would be a different beast. I don't even try to manage students I don't know; it won't work. On the other hand, we get really good at making decisions.
It's likely the current zeitgeist, where it's fashionable to hate on CEO's based on an entirely un-representative sample of their ilk. I mean, I'm not saying the dozen or couple dozen don't deserve it... Only that the sample and the sampling methods are very subjective and deeply biased. (Not to mention the survey says "executives" not "CEO". And with good reason - there's many more of the former than of the latter.)
The very visible wheel gets the hate, and you never hear about the 99.99% of the others. Meanwhile, I'd have no problems getting in a shelter with either the current owners or the one set to inherit of the local business my wife works for. All good solid guys. (And the current owners were both motorcycle racers back in their salad days.) The one set to inherit was the sales manager, and is now the GM. Etc... etc...
Though, as always YMMV. I know nothing of your local leadership/managers.
Of course I live in a Navy town with a naval shipyard and a SSBN base just a few miles away... So it's not likely to be an issue I'll ever have to deal with. I won't have to shelter from fallout, I'm likely to *be* fallout.
What I find interesting about the survey though is the question about military experience. There's an unspoken assumption that men with combat/senior leadership experience are common enough that it's worth asking after them in a high level/generalized survey.
Sales managers ftw!
I dunno about all that other stuff, but having taught high school should automatically give me a bazillion points.
One odd question is the one about mountain climbing, cave exploring etc. Those are to some degree risky activities. I do not see how being a risk-taker is necessarily a desirable quality in a shelter manager (“Radiation levels outside might be okay, so we can leave.”)
I've been in a situation or two where, when in a group of strangers, I've said "I'm a teacher" and everyone else in the group immediately voted me to be in charge. It's nice to know the DCPA agreed.
But honestly, teaching is 99% relational, so managing strangers would be a different beast. I don't even try to manage students I don't know; it won't work. On the other hand, we get really good at making decisions.
I was waiting for something about mental health to come up, as it is the 70s. I guess they have other irons in the fire...
It's likely the current zeitgeist, where it's fashionable to hate on CEO's based on an entirely un-representative sample of their ilk. I mean, I'm not saying the dozen or couple dozen don't deserve it... Only that the sample and the sampling methods are very subjective and deeply biased. (Not to mention the survey says "executives" not "CEO". And with good reason - there's many more of the former than of the latter.)
The very visible wheel gets the hate, and you never hear about the 99.99% of the others. Meanwhile, I'd have no problems getting in a shelter with either the current owners or the one set to inherit of the local business my wife works for. All good solid guys. (And the current owners were both motorcycle racers back in their salad days.) The one set to inherit was the sales manager, and is now the GM. Etc... etc...
Though, as always YMMV. I know nothing of your local leadership/managers.
Of course I live in a Navy town with a naval shipyard and a SSBN base just a few miles away... So it's not likely to be an issue I'll ever have to deal with. I won't have to shelter from fallout, I'm likely to *be* fallout.
What I find interesting about the survey though is the question about military experience. There's an unspoken assumption that men with combat/senior leadership experience are common enough that it's worth asking after them in a high level/generalized survey.
World War II was only 30 years before. Any 20ish sergeant in "the Big One" would have been in his 50s in the 70s... and there were plenty of those.