Underway Day 4/5

I used a slashie because it's 5am. So though it may technically be Monday, it's still Sunday to me. I got some gripes to share for no particular reason.

It really sucks to be so close to land, but you're still doing circles in the water.

Don't bitch about being told you're doing something wrong when you didn't go to the meeting, didn't get briefed on the drills, didn't read the drills and when you decide to jump in and try to run the drill yourself, especially if that someone who told you did all those things and knows how to run a damn drill. And if you want more training, ask for it dammit, don't just assume everyone is going to give it to you. We all have "real" jobs and work hard, so take the inititive and make the fucking effort to ask somebody.

If you ask if anyone has any questions, don't get pissy when someone actually asks one.

Before you go jumping down my throat because you heard the tail end of what I said, ask first before you start assuming that I'm talking about you. You're not that important to my life to talk about you and your earjacking only makes you look like a chump. Remember that assuming makes an ass out of "U" and...nope, you're the only one that looks like an ass.

The ship has three AC plants. The temperature in homeport is in the low 50s. The ship gets underway with 2 AC plants online. The temperature of the water is now in the low 90s. The ship needs to turn that third fucking AC plant on because it's hot as shit everywhere. It's cooler outside than it is inside. That's a problem.

If you're writing an email to the entire command, do not type like you talk. Please. Mines is not a plural possessive pronoun. It is however more than one explosive device or excavated mineral deposit. Seriously.

If your job is basically messenger boy, then be messenger boy. Don't tell me how to do my job. If you want to do my job, then get your ass up here and do it. If not, then STFU and GBTW.

Now I feel better.

Comments

[Margaret]

Stupid, annoying people everywhere and they are NOT just the teenagers that I teach. Depressing.

[Tonya]

No, they're also the highly-educated engineers and scientists I work with who might as well still be in kindergarten.

[Lisset]

They are everywhere.