Have you ever heard of aggressive excuse making? This is a new term I've just coined, and it goes something like this.
A member of the group is assigned a task, and they promise to complete the task.
They don't, along with other things they had promised, so someone makes mention that "he didn't complete the assignment," or "he failed to perform," and then the person rather than acknowledge they failed, they make an excuse they didn't have enough time, or this, that, or the other thing.
Then, they accuse the person who pointed out their failures to perform as being too aggressive, as if it isn't right for anyone to merely state the facts that someone dropped the ball.
Now then, I don't know where you come from, but where I come from you call ace an ace, and a spade a spade.
Making excuses for failing to perform reminds me of the Obama Administration blaming everything on the Republicans, even though it wasn't the Republicans that made all these insane promises during the election campaign, or through press releases as they put forth various initiatives and requested more money from Congress.
Apparently, this is the new norm, and I'm watching it happen even with the baby boomer crowd.
I think what's happening is that people are starting to see other people getting away with this nonsense, and it is easy to make an excuse for nonperformance, kind of like calling someone a racist that doesn't agree with you, that is if you can't debate them you start attacking them instead.
It's unfortunate really, and it shows that no one is taking responsibility for anything.
Perhaps, everyone wants to be a delegator, but no one wants to go out and do anything.
Not long ago I experienced this interesting phenomena and the other individual told me they were just too busy, too many meetings, too many places to go and people to see.
In fact they were so busy going to these silly non-productive meetings, they didn't get anything done their either, even though they complained that they were so busy doing other things.
The reality was they were not performing very well at anything.
But they have learned how to make excuses, how to put things off, and how to cover their tracks trying to make other people feel bad for merely pointing out the truth that they didn't perform.
Apparently, it isn't right to call someone on the carpet for piss-poor-performance anymore.
Gee, that's not the world I grew up in - but this next generation coming along has learned this trick and are playing this card more often than not.
Worst of all, even people from my own generation are picking up this tactic and doing the same, and if you make simple mention of this, they call you aggressive - indeed, of all the BS I have ever heard it sure is getting thick.
If someone cannot perform they must be fired, businesses cannot operate this way - no organization can.
Not even the government.
Please consider all this and think on it.