Who’s in Charge?
Friday, November 21st, 2008You are.
As the saying goes, you’ve got the job until you get hit or somebody better comes along.
An interesting phenomenon occurs in many emergency situations. Most people stand with wide eyes and do nothing. They are waiting for someone to tell them what to do. I think that the syndrome has increased and deepened over the years, but that’s just my opinion. That it is currently very deep and very prevalent is not my opinion. Airlines are now training their onboard personnel to literally scream and shout at people in order to get them to start moving out of an airplane that has crashed and started to catch on fire. People have to be told to leave a burning airplane, and shocked into motion in order to get them out.
Unbelievable? Absolutely. True? Absolutely.
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