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Mrs Frizzle
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I used to make patrols with a sailor who was...challenged, let's say, in accomplishing any task that required in depth knowledge and a need to hold two ideas at the same time.
For some of our evolutions, therefore, he was the logkeeper. We would complete a procedure, he'd be tasked with writing it down in the log. It' s not a complex skill. You watch the guys working and track their progress and write down completion times.
Well, evidently it was too complex because no one made a point of turning to Gray and saying, loudly and clearly, "We have completed Weapons Procedure X, which is step y of Procedural Guide Z." So during one retargeting, he threw down the log and his pen, shouting that "No one ever tells me nothing!" and stormed out.
So we told him everything.
Any time we started a procedure, for about the next month, we sent someone to wake him up or call him out of the movie and alert him. When the procedure was finished, we gave him a report (unless I was the one on watch... I often figured he'd be laying there in the rack just waiting for the completion report. SO I let him hang...). After that month, he apologized to the division and we stopped.
The next patrol, the Weapons Officer announced his impending retirement. So he wanted us to treat the Assistant Weapons Officer as Weps for the last half of the patrol, to get him trained up.
The first week, we were not in the habit ,yet, so there were some things we forgot to inform him of. So he got the whole department together, chewed us out, and insisted that we tell him EVERYTHING going on in the department.
Gray had only gotten start and finish times.
AWeps got... Oh, everything. Start times, finish times, alarms received, alerts, paper changes in the printer, vacuuming the carpet, changing light bulbs in the fuze tester... And we never started any maintenance until 20 minutes after chow. That's when he'd be just climbing into his Bunkie...
He lasted six days.
Be careful what you demand. People may be glad to give it to you.
Well, if that's the case: I DEMAND $1000000 !