If you made as many severe mistakes in your job as GWB, would you expect to be forgiven?

Question

ret_roch_cop.... Please don't understate the case will ya?

Wow so many great answers... Almost impossible to choose BA...

Answer 1

In the UK, providing you are one of the big boys , you would get a lovely golden handshake and a pension that most of us could hardly dream of.
I'm not sure about mistakes on the part of GWB but for ineptitude, gormless remarks and just plain stupidity, he takes a lot of beating.
I often wonder when reading replies on similar subjects whether you in the USA see what we see on our TV screens. Do Fox and CNN edit the more ridiculous statements the fool comes out with.
By the way, Bill Clinton is often held up for comparisons by Bush supporters. Did we miss something on this side of the world? I do not recall Clinton being charged with rape. He had a sexual interlude but that hardly compares with the slaughter of innocent people in Iraq.

Answer 2

No, most likely you get fired.
That's the real background problem of the government bureaucracy and politics. There's no performance evaluation.
Just take the war on drugs for example. It's been going on for decades, thousand of government bureaucrats were involved, quintizillions have been invested and a lot of collateral damage suffered. If you measure the results not only the objectives haven't been reached (the elimination of drugs), the problem (as stated originally) is even worse. There are more drugs in quantity and variety, it's a lot more easily accessed and the black market has grown.
Imagine that scenario on a private company. All of them would have been fired long time ago.
In the government world, they just move on and ask for more money and more resources to keep trying. They're not even punished for their poor performance, they're in fact rewarded with more resources.

You can change the war on drugs with whatever issue you like. Social health, economic growth, roads, transportation, EDUCATION!!.
Wherever you look, the government is non-solving non-problems at the highest possible cost with no performance evaluation.

Answer 3

So true.
My husband is a doctor. When you go to a doctor, he makes a diagnosis and gets a treatment plan together, he must do so based on accurate information via relaible diagnostic tools. Then he begins treatment. Assuming that he wasn't given the correct information and he notices that the treatment plan is not working and that the patient is responding poorly and not according to any positve expectations, then the doctor is expected and is obligated to change the course of treatment, NOT to continue to treat the patient toward morbidity only to save face. This would be nothing short of malpractice and anyone who would defend this doctor would be nothing short of insane.

Answer 4

yea I bear in mind and specific it grow to be humorous to make certain him elude it . If the comparable ? grow to be ask on the instant . you may guess the respond would nevertheless be the comparable. to admit he made a mistake would be like asserting i'm in basic terms human. GWB thinks he's previous blunders and we are loopy to think of otherwise. one element is for specific however . he will bypass down in historic previous because of the fact the worst President ever. till Obama takes that call from him mutually as in workplace.

Answer 5

I would have been fired long ago.

As for any rightwingnuts who claim that GWB has committed no mistakes, come on. Get real.

You don't think that manufactoring evidence to lie us into a war might have been a mistake? Ordering the US military not to secure the weapons in Iraq might have been a mistake? Not sending enough troops into Iraq might not have been a mistake? Forgetting to buy body armor for the troops? not spending allocated money to rebuild Iraq? You don't think that a competent president might have done things a bit differently?

What about 9/11? You don't think that refusing to treat domestic terrorism seriously before 9/11 might have been a mistake? You don't think that lowering security at airports in the spring and summer of 2001 might have been a mistake? How about refusing to look at reports of immending terrorist attacks in August of 2001 because you were on vacation might have been a mistake?

What about FEMA? Do you think that appointing someone incompetent to run FEMA might have been a mistake? What about all of Bush's attack on our civil rights? You don't think that promoting laws which your own staff (and later the courts) determined were unconstitutional, might have been a mistake?

What about the "mission accomplished" sign? Don't you think that claiming that the war in Iraq was over might have been a mistake? How about firing a general because he said that the war in Iraq might cost a few billion dollars (the actually estimate is around 3 trillion now) might have been a mistake?

Nothing that Bush has ever done has been a mistake? Nothing at all?

Answer 6

You just can't expect to be forgiven so easily if you continue to make the same mistakes over and over again without feeling a moral obligation to correct yourself.

As Trump would say "You're Fired!!!"

Answer 7

If I made a mistake at my job that killed thousands of people for no reason, I think my career would be over.

That would have to be some awfully bad graphic design and art direction to kill that many people though.

Answer 8

I have never seen anyone make as many mistakes in 6 and a half years at the same job and still be in that job. Any other American would have been fired long ago. It wouldn't matter how hard they were working or trying, they would be fired. Employers don't tolerate mistakes. We employ GWB, why have we as a nation, tolerated his mistakes????

Answer 9

Of course not. And, if I was as incompetent as Bush, they would not have to fire me because I would either figure out how to do the job or quit. Bush’s personality of ignorance combined with arrogance prevents him was recognizing when he has humiliated himself (and the nation) and makes him prideful when he should be ashamed and embarrassed.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, most Con's will say that he hasn't made any mistakes, so it will be hard for them to admit he deserves forgiveness.

But I see the mistakes and had I of made severe mistakes in my job, yes I would have been fired...a long time ago.