Pecking Orders

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Do you believe/react to pecking orders?

That depends on whom I'm ordered to peck ! !! !!

In many situations, they can be either extremely useful or even vital. Without them, you tend to have a gaggle, with no one in charge and no one accountable. As long as they serve a purpose and are based on meaningful criteria (e.g., experience, knowledge, stuff like that), I have no problem with them. Obviously, they can also be abused and/or can be based on bad things like hereditary rank, unearned wealth, and so on. Those I ignore and flout when I can.

I spent 20 years as a military officer and had no problem with the strict hierarchy. The ranks had to be earned and, with some exceptions, were merited, and the authority carried heavy responsibility.

Pecking orders, hierarchies, systems of authority, whatever you call them can be bad or good, like anything else. But without some sort of structure, you have chaos, which in societies is bad. In fact, it's impossible. Some sort of pecking order will always emerge in a group of people, whether it's based on brute strength or something else.

Prof:

I like your answer better than mine.

I was very afraid of the VicePresident of the bank where I used to work. Afraid like shaking and running away if he came near . Thank Garlic there was no President at the time, I could have had a heart attack... With the managers I was a bit comfortable and with everyone else I was myself.

Very much so.

There are several prominent ones at my work.

Friendship wise, I don't have a large enough group of friends to notice or care.

If you mean the tacit pecking orders in a lot of informal social groupings...I never had an easy time either abiding by or respecting them. If it is something more rigidly defined like a work heirarchy, then yeah I understand them.

Well... I'm predisposed to hate the social pecking orders, as I inevitably end up at the bottom.

In organizations (usually online or composed of strangers to me), I have an attitude something that I wouldn't call respect, but perhaps fear, towards the pecking order. I act really timid and go to great lengths not to piss people off, and I internally overreact to the responses or statements of people who are of greater status (again, this mainly applies with strangers).

I like to Lone Wolf it and stay out of everybody's drama.

But I'm in a position where I can do that. Which is how I like it.

I got plenty of friends, and friendly acquiantances. I've always had a knack for staying just beyond the bullsh*t-o-sphere.