<story><title>Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision</title><url>https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/#.XEFOvOop_SM.twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dba7dba</author><text>&amp;gt; The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked to read above. You don&amp;#x27;t personally trust someone or people in CIC so you just don&amp;#x27;t communicate with CIC when you are crossing the most congested patch of ocean on the planet?&lt;p&gt;What is this? High school??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Distrust of management is extremely common.  I cannot stress enough just how common it is both in the military and the corporate world or how potentially toxic this is.  Most people outside of management are absolutely incapable of seeing it, even when its excessively rampant, because they don&amp;#x27;t recognize the symptoms.  The common reasons for not recognizing such symptoms, even when immediately apparent and excessive, are due to: self-centered desires, incompetence, and perceptions of hostility.&lt;p&gt;Trust issues can occur from top down as well as bottom up.  I have observed management not trusting their people far more commonly than opposed to people not trusting their management.  When management does not trust their staff the staff will not be used or properly developed.  It may be that the leadership believes it takes less effort to do the job themselves than watch their staff struggle and fail.  This is a benign form of toxic leadership.  Staff must be made to do their jobs and properly mentored to just before the point where the incompetence is likely to result in criminal&amp;#x2F;policy violations or immediate harms.</text></comment>
<story><title>Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision</title><url>https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/#.XEFOvOop_SM.twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dba7dba</author><text>&amp;gt; The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked to read above. You don&amp;#x27;t personally trust someone or people in CIC so you just don&amp;#x27;t communicate with CIC when you are crossing the most congested patch of ocean on the planet?&lt;p&gt;What is this? High school??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chopin</author><text>I was more shocked of the pee-filled bottles on the bridge. This hints to deep cultural problems being present and an utterly incompetent upper management.</text></comment>