I almost went off on them today.

[cp]

I REALLY hate it when someone tries to micro-manage ME.

I got a new "boss" at my work and SHE likes to try and tell me how to do my job even though ive been there longer than her and know more about what were doing than her.

She is tasked with an essential part of our daily routine and doesnt even acomplish 1/4 of what we need to get done in a day it sets us way behind since I get stuck picking up her slack.

What I do is build kits for air drop loads of food, water and fuel which are dropped at various smaller outposts around Afghanistan.

Every day I come in and it is my job to build 40 "kits" for the loads which you can see in the background of this picture.


The riggers are tasked with tieing up the white cargo nets and attaching the parachutes to the loads which requires special knots and differnt kinds of rope which I dont know how to do (and shouldnt have to since thats NOT MY JOB).


They have to prep anywhere from 30-60 loads a day. There crew has 10 people. Mine has 3. The loads look like this when prepped and ready to go.


The past 3 days they have failed to make there quota so I have been tasked to help them all 3 days. I have learned how to tie all the knots and prep the loads. Which in turn has made my team fall 3 days behind on what were supposed to do! Now that Im 3 days behind guess whose going to help me get caught back up? NO ONE!

This is the crap I got stuck with for going to airborne school and trying to be high speed.

I CAN NOT WAIT to get back to my actual unit so I can get back out on the road.




Home is SO close I can almost taste it...

[Swampbuckster]

Damn man. That really sucks. Hopefully things get better for ya dude! I use to unload produce and have to build up pallets with specific products and numbers when I worked at the Meijers warehouse in Lansing. I hated that job myself. Nothing worse than doing your job and then having somebody else come in and try to tell you how to do it!

[Relic]

Yeah,that sucks Nick...We gad some Kelly Girl typoe people come to our plant back in the day to cut back on large supervision salaries.Some of these ars holes had never been in an auto plant.Needless to say I had fun ripping thier back sides and almost had a couple of them in tears....Hope things get better for ya...

[SPLASH]

Seems like you are doing the reverse of what I did 3 years back. Remember when I was working 3rd shift for China Mart's sister company? Remember back then me ranting about the guy who thought he was a rapper that walked as slow as possible, goofed off and always tied up the forklift we had to sahre? I had to always help him and I'm the one who had atleast double the work load he had. I solved the problem by working slower so I didn't have time to help him. After awhile it kind of backfired on me because they moved him to an easier area and put a woman in his old area next to me and they added part of his load to mine. It was kind of cool though once I started having to work over so much throughout the week that they would have me work 4 days because they were too cheap to pay overtime. ;D And yes, I know what it's like to have someone over me that I know the job much better. Seems like you are dealing with some of the same crap corporations make people deal with.

[Fobbitcrusher]

I would go crazy doing that job

[cp]

I am going crazy. Its literally killing me from the inside. Today was another wonderful day where it took all I had not to just start tearing into people. We had to move a couple hundred parachutes today and there was 12 of us there with 4 of us doing all the work while the others sat around and smoked and talked to eachother. They have ZERO leadership except 1 NCO, E5 type and she has no leadership skills what so ever. She doesnt even tell the other that they need to start working. The rest of them lack the ability to realize that if we all work together if will get the job done much faster than standing around b!tchng about how much work there is.

They dont lsten to me so Im done tryng to get them to do work. Im just going to stay in my lane and do what I need to do.

6 more days and ill be on my way back to Leatherneck!!!!!!1

[SPLASH]

6 more days and you get COFFEE! Hope the days fly by for ya. More tatts when you get to Leatherneck?

[cp]

Was thinking about another one just dont know what I want. Needs to be something simple, hes far from an expert.

[SPLASH]

A heart with SPLASH in the middle of it?

[DieHard]

awesome pictures man