Posted on 09/10/2018 4:40:11 AM PDT by vannrox
Up until the 1980’s, the “hazing” of new employees was a time-honored tradition. Here, the new employees would be given the crappiest jobs, told to do the hardest things, and treated horribly. This all seemed to disappear in the middle 1980’s. This article is dedicated to all those older workers who had to endure the “hazing” period and what it was like… Introduction
Today, little remains of the old days of Hazing. You can see it on College campuses and universities when people “rush” to join a sorority or a fraternity. That’s about it. The hazing during High School has pretty much been eliminated. With the only vestiges of it being the movie “Dazed and Confused“.
People have forgotten that “hazing” was an important part of life. You went through it numerous times in your life, and one of the most harrowing was when you started work at a new job. Here, we look at this aspect of life. In it, I describe the hazing rituals that I experienced in Western Pennsylvania in the 1970’s. Hazing in the Coal Mines
One of the first jobs that I had was in the coal mines when I was 14 years old. My father believed
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This article is a load of BS. It’s good that some “traditions” die. Build Character my foot!
“Go back to the shop and get the pipe stretcher”
It’s interesting, the changes in the military.
As the tradition of hazing the newbie goes away, all the homoz and trannies show up.
Some people do take some the the dumbest crap and apply rose-colored paint on it, dont they?
Is this supposed to be a workplace or some fraternity playground?
I recall reading about how when Mario Lemieux was a rookie with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1984, even he did not escape that bit of hazing as when he fell asleep on an airplane in the midst of a road trip, a teammate snuck up and covered his head in shaving cream. And also the well known tale of Bobby Orr in about 1966 being dragged into the dressing room shower, covered in liniment oil, and shaved from head to toe.
Yes, also good that the Eucharist replaced the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament, which in turn replaced human sacrifices.
In the nineties the Navy “Tailhook” controversy had a lot of people looking at this.
wonder what crossing the equator on a Navy ship is like these days. Cannot imagine its anything like when I first crossed in 72.
The retired Naval aviation guys I work with tell stories about sending the noobies for a bucket of “prop wash”. lol
“Hazing” is just another word for “bullying”.
Ford Motor Company, in the days when American cars were the envy of the world, had a fine tradition that some might call hazing.
Each year they recruited the best and brightest of the graduating engineering students.
On their first day at work they were handed brooms, shovels and other manual labor implements.
The closest they would come to the engineering department was sweeping the floor and taking out the trash.
No one got near to using that engineering degree until they had successfully performed every job on the factory floor.
Back when American cars were the envy of the world and Made In America meant quality engineering and workmanship.
Go down to S4 and get some canopy lights and a box of grid lines.
That's not hazing. That's education. "Manufacturability" is a huge part of good design. A good engineer will design so that the poor schlub on the assembly line or in the shop can build the damn thing without standing on his head.
Nothing like actually DOING the work to understand what it entails.
That's a whole different thing from idiocy about "prop wash" ...
I despise assh8les who think hazing is ok. One of the reasons I abhor fraternities. And I don’t get the hazing that occurs at our military academies. Can’t people act like adults?
20+ years ago my daughter was in an award winning marching band that had a time honored "hell night" for new members. That was until one newbie went psycho and has stayed that way. The band director, school, and boosters are likely still paying off the seven figure judgement.
There are some traditions that need to stay: honoring God and country for example. Other traditions that may be venerable but have the potential for harm need to go.
There's no hazing at all in the Navy these days. I remember making 3rd and then 2nd Class Petty Officer and getting my crows "tacked" on (getting punched in the arm). My arm was black and blue but I wasn't any worse for the wear. I was proud. Of course, there's always some asshole who takes it too far and someone winds up LLD with a broken arm after his arm was jumped on.
Around 2010 or so, about the same time as DADT was repealed, the Navy cracked down hard on hazing. It had long been officially banned but still tolerated. The Navy sent a message in the form of several publicized career ending NJPs that the days of hazing were over. When I made First Class, there were no punches to my arm. We got the message loud and clear.
There are better ways to teach new people humility and remind old timers about compassion.
The real purpose of hazing was to discover what kind of person the newbie really was. Does he have grace under pressure? Or will he violently explode at being "disrespected"? Better to find out at the beginning, than when it has hit the fan.
The tradition had to go, because some people are notoriously bad at accepting being made to look ridiculous.
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