Underwater SSH
It's observable literally everywhere
A reader comments on some recent post-disaster hearings:
I've been listening, to the US Coast Guard Oceangate Submersible hearings and I thought the difference between the testimonies by the Engineering Director (gamma) and the Operations Director (delta) were interesting in terms of how the ranks deal with being interrogated.
Both men are subject matter experts and were eventually fired by the CEO for refusing to sign off on key deliverables.
The difference is the gamma is obviously disingenuous. At a couple of points during the hearing the heart rate alarm on his wristwatch goes off, betraying to everyone that he is at least hiding something.
While both men are probably innocent in the end, the delta is more willing to tell the whole truth while the gamma keeps obfuscating and appears guilty by default.
Deltas are often honest to a fault. They don’t tend to be very comfortable with rhetoric or marketing, or even just putting something in its best possible light. Gammas, on the other hand, often make one think they are lying even when they aren’t.
When I was a location manager, if I wanted to get to the bottom of an issue, I would always ask a delta to look into it. Not that they would always find the problem, but they would tell the truth about what they found and what they didn’t find, which in itself was enormously instrumental in narrowing down the problem.
I wish I had learned about SSH earlier in my life. Would have saved me from quite a few embarrassments and backstabbings from Gammas in the workplace.