Keyboard Ninja
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Apr 13, 2008
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Waiting for my OIC (officer in charge), but figured I needed to let out some steam...
I'm deployed working in a shop that is 3 men deep. We don't ever see each other because we all work different shifts. I'm the lowest ranking person (E-3), and the highest ranking person is an E-6.
The E-6 is the biggest pile of $h!t I have ever met. When I first got here I didn't agree with one of the processes that they were doing because it wasn't efficient, and contributed absolutely nothing to the overall job. I was informed that we didn't have an NCOIC (NCO in charge) so I went to my OIC with the question. He agreed with me and promptly said don't do it anymore.
Well I stopped and the next day the E-6 is sitting in my chair waiting for me. The first thing I ask is "Sergeant X, do you think the breif is even necessary?" I was promptly reminded that I didn't give him the proper respect and I don't address someone of higher rank in that way. I proceeded to close the door behind me and give him the blank stare wondering what this idiot was going to say next.
He states that he gave me an order to continue with the breif until he felt like they didn't need to be given anymore. That was the first I heard of him being in charge, but apparently he thought he was. After he stopped talking I asked "Sergeant X, are you done?". Once he acknowledged I turned my back to him and opened the door.
This was during my first week out here.
The E-6 leaves in a few days, and I had already told my OIC what happened. He did talk to the E-6 and apparently the story changed (go figure). I do my job, and my OIC knows this. I was told what happend, and was advised to just let it go.
Yesterday I sent out an email to the other airman stateside asking them what I needed to do to unload the trash building up in the back. E-6 decided to flex his stripes again this time via email and asked if I even bothered to look into the procedure binder to see how to do it. I would have assumed the man that has been here the longest (the E-6) would have told me there that a procedure guide existed. It would have also been nice to know that the single shelf that holds the books doesn't really have ALL of the books. The one I needed to read was hidden under a desk.
In the email he states that I did a good job showing initiative when it came to trying to unload the trash. What I should have done was read the procedure book instead of asking airman stateside what to do. What I did showed the stateside airman that we don't know how to read.
WHAT GIVES? I am doing what I think is right, and if I don't know I ask questions. I'd rather ask and tell someone I'm ignorant than attempt to be Tim 'the Toolman' Taylor (fix something when you don't really know what you are doing).
I've already forwarded the email to my OIC, and I've already asked the stateside airman more questions on the procedures in the book. I'm at a point where I don't even care about this idiot anymore. By the way I love Tooltime
I'm deployed working in a shop that is 3 men deep. We don't ever see each other because we all work different shifts. I'm the lowest ranking person (E-3), and the highest ranking person is an E-6.
The E-6 is the biggest pile of $h!t I have ever met. When I first got here I didn't agree with one of the processes that they were doing because it wasn't efficient, and contributed absolutely nothing to the overall job. I was informed that we didn't have an NCOIC (NCO in charge) so I went to my OIC with the question. He agreed with me and promptly said don't do it anymore.
Well I stopped and the next day the E-6 is sitting in my chair waiting for me. The first thing I ask is "Sergeant X, do you think the breif is even necessary?" I was promptly reminded that I didn't give him the proper respect and I don't address someone of higher rank in that way. I proceeded to close the door behind me and give him the blank stare wondering what this idiot was going to say next.
He states that he gave me an order to continue with the breif until he felt like they didn't need to be given anymore. That was the first I heard of him being in charge, but apparently he thought he was. After he stopped talking I asked "Sergeant X, are you done?". Once he acknowledged I turned my back to him and opened the door.
This was during my first week out here.
The E-6 leaves in a few days, and I had already told my OIC what happened. He did talk to the E-6 and apparently the story changed (go figure). I do my job, and my OIC knows this. I was told what happend, and was advised to just let it go.
Yesterday I sent out an email to the other airman stateside asking them what I needed to do to unload the trash building up in the back. E-6 decided to flex his stripes again this time via email and asked if I even bothered to look into the procedure binder to see how to do it. I would have assumed the man that has been here the longest (the E-6) would have told me there that a procedure guide existed. It would have also been nice to know that the single shelf that holds the books doesn't really have ALL of the books. The one I needed to read was hidden under a desk.
In the email he states that I did a good job showing initiative when it came to trying to unload the trash. What I should have done was read the procedure book instead of asking airman stateside what to do. What I did showed the stateside airman that we don't know how to read.
WHAT GIVES? I am doing what I think is right, and if I don't know I ask questions. I'd rather ask and tell someone I'm ignorant than attempt to be Tim 'the Toolman' Taylor (fix something when you don't really know what you are doing).
I've already forwarded the email to my OIC, and I've already asked the stateside airman more questions on the procedures in the book. I'm at a point where I don't even care about this idiot anymore. By the way I love Tooltime