Why is that a problem if the rule is not unethical or illegal?
When I was the superintendent of a military training facility, I required my supervisors to adhere to the dress and grooming standards more strictly than the average troop (as also do military honor guard units).
This was not a problem.
I think you are still missing the point, RDKirk. This example isn't anything I would have a problem with. You as the one in charge held your supervisors to a stricter standard. I would do the same. If they can't do the expectations themselves, they shouldn't be enforcing them on the others, right? Isn't expecting something of others that you don't do yourself what Jesus defined as hypocrisy?
And, they in turn should be managing their troop, not you. I get that. I have military experience.
You keep trying to find the exception to the rule, rather than understanding why there is a set standard and rules within a local community who see each other regularly.
If you set a standard for your supervisors and you didn't routinely enforce that standard (even if it was only calling them out when they didn't meet them or privately counseling the one who didn't meet them), then you really didn't have standards.
Same for me. If I tell a boy to clean the bathroom and I establish standards for how he is supposed to clean, he will inevitably not meet my standards. I can manage by walking around or manage from my office. That in itself will determine the level of successful training I do. But, assuming I am managing from walking around (which I actually call supervision), and I am confronted with a standard that is not met, I can do two things (1) bring the deficiencies to the attention of the student in a constructive manner, so they can fix them that time and improve in future iterations of that chore (which I call effective supervision) or (2) I can do nothing--which in practice is no result is no different than the person who doesn't check, because, in reality/practice, I just created a whole new and lower standard.
I can certainly not check every chore every day. It doesn't make me any less responsible for the cleaning that is expected by my superiors or the state, if I don't check it. And, if I don't get the child to fix he chore or fix the chore myself, I bare the responsibility for cleaning, the child doesn't.
But, people on other cottages don't have to clean like my students clean. They aren't all cleaning together that they would know the difference in standards. But, things that are standards that are supposed to be in effect for when we are all together, should be enforced. Otherwise, they shouldn't exist, because in practice they really don't. So, when people complain about what the students do or don't do, I can only sit back and say that if the very people complaining enforced what they claim to be their standards--including enforcement of the rules they profess should exist and be enforced community wide--they wouldn't be complaining about the lack of results they see in practice. I guess in short, my analysis is weak/ineffective supervision results in a lack of effective/consistent standards.
