I'm Racist Against Stupid People

So I'm waiting on some of my things to be delivered. Automatic Sports Car Boy (Camaro for short) has been here for almost seven months and is still asking me questions. The way it works is they email you, you reply with all your contact information, they send you a confirmation email with a date and you have to be available from 0800 until they deliver your stuff on that date. Camaro keeps asking me if my stuff has been delivered. I keep wanting to get sarcastic and say, "Yeah, I just thought I'd hide out in my room all day." but instead I simply say no. He says to keep him posted. I told him, "It's not the end of the day yet. It'll come." He wants me to call him in an hour and a half. I don't understand, why can't I just call him when my stuff is delivered as was agreed yesterday? His stuff was delivered the same way, why does he think it's going to work any different than when he got his stuff? If his superiors are questioning him or me, why when everyone that changes duty stations does it the same way. Plus, they keep checking my schedule as if I'm lying to them. Don't get me wrong, I love to lie, but I like confusing people and making them look like idiots, I don't like getting caught lying about something serious or something that will get me into huge trouble, like this.

How Did I Know

Ladies & Gentlemen. . .

Meet SSG Hero. Same person, different location. This may or may not be difficult for you to understand & keep up with, but do your best & feel free to contact me with anything you may need clarified.

First impression was him saying very loud, "Go downstairs by the weight room and stand at parade rest 'til I get there! And you BETTER hurry!" Locked up at parade rest, once again, and waiting on Hero Boy to come down. He comes downstairs, drawing attention due to the fact that he's the only thing making noise and asks me what I'm looking at. He was attempting to be demeaning and degrading. I said, "You, sergeant." He proceeded to preach to us. After saying, "Yes, sergeant" and, "Roger, sergeant" to everything he said, he chewed me out saying, ". . . and if you don't start saying sergeant once in a while, I'm gonna. . . I've been in the Army ten years and I want the respect I've earned!" Then he sent me off to get a ride home (to the barracks).

The minute you underestimate someone is the minute you have made a fool of yourself. Congratulations, you're an idiot.

Issues Throughout.

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Unfortunately I did not find out about this until this morning at 0715, but milblogs everywhere are not posting for a period in support of CJ, founder of A Soldier's Perspective. I have decided to do the same. Though no where near as large of a following, I completely support the ideas and beliefs of his blog and am very disappointed in the Army's willingness to silence integrity. Show your support and donate to his legal fund on the blog's homepage.

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3.5.4. Publication of "Underground Newspapers." Personal writing for publication may not be pursued during duty hours, or accomplished by the use of Government or non-appropriated fund property on- or off-duty. While publication of "underground newspapers" by military personnel off-post, on their own time, and with their own money and equipment, is not prohibited, if such a publication contains language the utterance of which is punishable under Federal law, those involved in the printing, publication, or distribution may be disciplined for such infractions.


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http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/rtf/132506x.rtf

Shift

So I show up for mid shift on Wednesday night and no sooner than I draw my weapon, free SGT tells me I'm working the gate. Ok, that's fine because I brought my computer and packed my lunch. I wonder if it's because hero is new or because I'm on profile. Either one aren't good enough for me, but I don't want him showing up on my scene anyways and telling me what to do when I have 4 years of broken road experience and he has 4 days. So this promises to be advantageous. So I find out that gate 8 needs two people and I go inside to find a good partner and he overhears me asking around and starts asking what's going on with gate 8. I told him they needed two and he was upset because he's in charge and needs to know what's going on. So I walk outside and get a ride from swings supervisor. I also find out that I got the best battleship player in the world as my partner. We start working the gate and he shows up about 30 minutes into shift. Now the funny and ironic part is that he wasn't there when we were given the gate 8 instructions, but free SGT, who was also there with us, was the one who put out the instructions. Hero tells us, since I refuse to stand at parade rest to work a gate, that we have to stand at ease until a vehicle comes, parade rest when they show up, attention when they get closer and give them proper hand and arm signals and check their IDs. I tell him that I've never worked this gate before, but I'm sure I'll catch on quickly and he believed me. Yeah, 4 years at Fort Puke and I've NEVER worked gate 8 before. Free SGT was there and had to turn around because he was smiling. I also read the SOP that PFCOA had said doesn't have the positions in it & he was RIGHT. Turns out the guy that's in charge has never worked the gate OR read the SOP. Not surprising.

Runs Batted In

So hero has me write an RBI (essay) for joking around and playing corporal for a night. I tried to write it, but the motivation just wasn't there & it was Halloween weekend. So I asked for more time Monday morning, about 6.5 hours before it was due. My team leader called me back and said that I could either have an hour and twenty minutes more, or come in when it was due and write it 'til it was finished. I had worked Sunday night. It was 0842 when he told me this. I went to bed, woke up at 1115 with about 2.5 hours of sleep and went in to write my essay. When I got there he said I had to write until my PSG left for the day and if it still wasn't finished, be back in the office writing when hero came back for weapons draw at 2015. So I wrote for 8 hours straight, from a little bit before twelve, to about 2005. I stepped outside to put a dip in and he was pulling up for work, just as he had said. He came up, made me sit there while he read it and told me I had to rewrite it. Now, it's 2030ish on Monday night and I had been up since about 1500 on Sunday with the exception of the 2.5 hour nap I had in the early morning. So he asks me if I have any questions. "Yeah, when to I get to sleep and take a shower?" He said, "Were you not given the time to take care of those things?" Now, in my eyes I was, but in his eyes. . . well. So he told me to go over to battalion staff duty and write it until it was finished. I told him I wanted to talk to the PSG, thinking that he would be a bit more reasonable and hero said he would call him and have him call me. So I headed over to battalion and started writing. He came over and told me that I had to write 'til 0000 or until it was finished, which ever came first and if it wasn't finished by midnight, then it was due by 1900 the next day. So I wrote 'til midnight which is when he showed up & restated the requirements. I left and FINALLY showered and slept after not doing either for 32 hours, with the exception of a 2.5 hour nap that morning. I finished handwriting the next day around 1200, called him to let him know & he had me turn it in to the PSG. When I handed it in the PSG asked, "Is this going to piss him off again?". And I said no. I wish I could post 'em on here, but unfortunately I am not smart enough to make copies.

Liar, Liar.

I was in the field for a week and a half. The E5 squad leader in charge out there said he was sending me back and continued to verbally reprimand me for not telling him my problems and explained that he has pull and can do things that other squad leaders and E5s can't. Through all that, he implied that he was trying to help me. Once I got back from the field, my omniscient PSG said that the squad leader sent me back because he was tired of dealing with me. Needless to say, the squad leader is a liar.