"Who promoted Major Major?"
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LOL.
We used to have a slightly quirky manager here named Major. After the group was audited and some 'issues' were identified he became known as Major Non-compliance.
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Speaking of Catch-22...
I've worked with quite a few Colonel Cargills in my day. Just sayin'.
Also, a real interaction I had with a kid who works for a very self-important New York marketing agency, about 5 days ago. (As best as I can remember as it was a video call and I was tired of their bullshit):
"So here, you wrote, the Catch-22 with these features is that they help in small doses, but too much of the same and it can cause major problems. A Catch-22 is a false dilemma in which both options lead to the same outcome. I think the cliché you're looking for is 'double-edged sword'."
"Well, if you bothered to check the dictionary definition, you'd see that it works perfectly here."
"Read the book? The catch is, if you claim insanity to get out of your bomber missions, that's an act of a sane person and you'll be shut down. If you truly are crazy, you don't think that you are and you'll never ask. Either way you fly the missions."
"Look I don't want to get into a semantic argument over this, the dictionary definition works just fine here."
"That's going to be a tough one to navigate. The job is all about constructing semantic arguments. You should read the book, though. It's good." -
I thought a catch 22 was where the solution to a problem is impossible because of the problem itself.
@Horace said in "Who promoted Major Major?":
I thought a catch 22 was where the solution to a problem is impossible because of the problem itself.
Sort of, but the actual catch is more "damed if you do, damned if you don't."
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
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"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
