Rush Limbaugh? The king of self aggrandizement...
That you Rush?
Quoting yourself again?
I would like to focus on this snippet because I had a very similar situation in my workplace some years ago:
...They’re more than happy for all of this to come down as a mandate or a directive from a distant capital, and they can tell the people in their state, “Sorry. Obama said we have to open the bedrooms up to anybody. Sorry. I can’t do anything about it. Take it up with Washington.”
Back in the 1990s, I worked for a company that had their national headquarters in Florida but branches all across the country. It was setup as a "command-and-control" structure in which corporate (St. Pete) dictated the way that all the branches would operate. So all the branch managers across the country (of which I was one) would basically be receiving a constant flood of memos and SOPs from St. Pete and then our main job would be disseminating them to the employees and ensuring that all directives were carried out to the letter.
What this effectively did was make the branch managers no better than a glorified clerk. Whenever the employees would gripe or complain about a policy, the manager would simply shrug and say "Sorry, that's the corporate policy. Take it up with them" Then the employee would have to call HR and complain to them. Which they only rarely bothered to do. And this setup suited most of the managers just fine. They were able to avoid confrontation and more importantly, they were removed from having to justify the policies they were tasked to carry out. And if their branch did not perform up to par, they could always point the finger back at corporate and say that they ran their operation the way they were directed to. Further, it was the regional managers that were held responsible for the financial results so there were never any consequences to the local branch managers for poor fiscal performance.
Then we got a new CEO and one of his major initiatives was to put more responsibility on the individual branch managers. Managers were given much more latitude to set policy and operating procedures in their branches but on the flip side, they were held to very aggressive goals on revenue growth and operating profit margins. Regional managers were now called Regional VPs and their number was reduced from 12 to 4 across the nation (one of which I ultimately became).
This was not well received by most managers. Within two years, more than half of them "washed out". For once they were asked to perform as leaders and were held accountable for their own results, the real managers were quickly separated from the glorified clerks who were content to be pencil-pushing, report-filing glorified clerks with no real responsibility.
So if this is the approach Trump is taking - shifting more responsibility to the states - I see this as an excellent development.
“took my advice...”
bloviating much?
Rush, I love you bro, but you've got the biggest ego I have ever seen.
Little tip: The world does not revolve around you, nor do the people of planet Earth hang on your every word.
Well, Trump did not “take” Rush’s advice. They both see the same forces and situations, though. Both have gut takes on their opposition so they agree on a lot.