Tech support
I would be so much simpler if he’d just task out this stuff instead of me sitting in the office, getting frustrated by talking on the phone with him, getting more frustrated telling him how to do something, and even more when I tell him that something can’t be done, and he doesn’t believe me.
Just talking on the phone is enough to frustrate me. He doesn’t talk. A 10 second conversation seems to take forever, because he just doesn’t spit out what he wants to say, there’s a lot of Uhs and so forth, along with seconds and seconds of dead air. My God Man, just spit it out…I’ve got porn to surf, villainous plans to devise and put into place, I have no time to sit and listened to Uh, Um….well….I think…..uh….hey, um……I have a question………………………………uh………………………………………..I’m trying to……………..um……………….
He should be the one here in the office, answering the phone, and setting out the tasks. He wouldn’t have to know what he’s doing. He’d just have to make sure it got done. So simple. But that’s me, and trying to once again throw the monkey wrench of common sense into the mix.
AAFES
They have a great little hidden money making scheme that irks me.
The US Gov’t doesn’t ship pennies overseas. It costs more to ship them than they’re worth. Makes sense.
Everything at AAFES here is 1 to 4 cents above a round $.05 cents. Since they don’t have pennies, they round down when they give you the change. I’m too tired to do the math, but imagine roughly 1000 seperate purchases at the store, probably 25% of them with cash at least. So 250 cash purchases. They make at least another penny off of those 250. that’s only $2.50. That’s per store, with two here. Per area. That includes everyplace not in the US. That’s hundreds of locations.
Their reciepts show that they gave me $4.92 in change on my last purchase, when in fact I only got $4.90. I wonder how much free money they are getting because according to their reciepts, I infact got my money, when in fact, they got it.
Why be sneaky. Just charge me a damn extra 3 cents and make it legit….
Daytime annoyances
I got moved to day shift again. I guess I wasn’t being provided enough micromanagement during nights.
So now instead of solving long term issues, I’m once again answering silly, sometimes downright stupid questions. Though, the two actual tasks I accomplished today in a little more than 7 minutes worth of time probably saved my supervisor about 15 hours of frustration. I really wish he knew more than he does, it would be a great asset to our bedraggled section.
I forgot to eat today, because of the new schedule. I’m used to having my breakfast time being everybody elses dinner, and my lunch/dinner is midnight chow. I did eat breakfast with most of everyone else this morning, but I was already up and since I didn’t eat yesterday, I was very hungry.
Two more reasons why I forgot I don’t like first shift. First, instead of rendering about 3 salutes a night, I average about 250 during the day. Why? Because my other reason I don’t like this shift, I have to walk from my office to my job-site no less than 4 times a day, then back. That is a 3/4 mile walk each way. Nights, I go over there and stay over there all night long, get a list of issues done, then go home when the big orange ball in the eastern sky shows up. Saluting is so damn hard, for one reason. I can only carry half what I could because my right arm is solely used for that purpose. Believe me, when you don’t give a few certain officer’s their damn respect, they get all bent out of shape. Big deal, so one person out of the 70 he’s going to pass isn’t saluting him. Don’t get me wrong, a vast majority of the officer’s feel the same way about saluting. They’re fucking sick of it. There is always one though, that has to be an uber-dick. He’s probably the newbie to country and hasn’t had to go through days of saluting, or he’s a visitor from one of the really tiny camps up north, where he’s the only one that gets saluted. There are so many officers here though, that on top of the 200 majors a day, 50 lite colonels, 10 colonels, and at least 2 generals I salute daily, that it really has lost it’s whole purpose. It’s just a stupid little annoyance that everyone has to put up with because someone in an airconditioned office somewhere that is overpaid and very self important made the ‘rule’. Yep, this whole area could be considered a no salute area, and I’m sure there is an officer or two that would be very pissed if it were, but the majority of us could actually have a smoke and drink coffee at the same time…
Stupid rules.
Here’s another…There is not allowed any wooden furniture, nor wooden structures around the tent areas because it poses a fire hazard. Lets examine the common sense in this one…
First, we live in plastic covered tents, on nylon cots, with polyester sheets and blankets. The materials in these ‘issue’ items has a flash over point of about 500 degrees, plus or minus 50. Flashover, by the way, is when the materials all get heated enough that they self combust. This is why trailers burn in about 45 seconds. Anyways…The wood we use, a lot of untreated 2×4’s, 4by’s, and so forth. This wood usually has a flash point of about 800 +/-, depending on wood type, so forth. I could be wrong in my numbers, it’s been a little over a year since I worked on the FD…The point is, that the wood is the least flammable substance given to us here.
In Kosovo, we were given wooden shelters, with wooden furniture, real beds, so forth. they were all huddled together like a horizontal apartment complex…We’re told it’s Army policy here that no wood be involved. hehe, whatever…That’s the whole reason that all of our furniture issued is wood, with the exception of here.
I’m tired. I’m going home. I’ve got to get used to this shift again.
