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krispykremessuck: Jul 22, 2005; unlike most veterans and SA members $10 is not a meaningful expenditure for me

I'm gonna have me a swag Bar-B-Q

Applewhite posted:

Question for enlisted Goons:

When your DIVO has a job for you and he says "We need to take care of whatever task" when he of course really means you need to take care of it, is it more annoying than if he just comes right out and says "You need to do this" or does him saying "we" make you feel more like part of a team?

Asking for a friend.

it doesn't matter you still suck since you delivered the news

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poopkitty: Oct 16, 2013; WE ARE ALL ONE

Pandasmores posted:

Better with being up front with who is doing what, leadership is more than just telling people what to do such as delegating workload around so that the team remains balanced and you gain trust in the people around you to do whatever they're assigned. If they don't know how to do and you have a body to spare, have them teach the fucker. If fucker is an idiot, then don't just let him loaf around and do something about it, bring in 3rd or 2nd or 1st classes to teach him something if there's some issue with them doing it, Chief being the last guy that needs to be bothered with it because his coffee might get cold.

Really, we should all just ask Panda our leadership questions. On the nose as always. :chiefsay:

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:15

Fart Sandwiches: Apr 4, 2006; i never asked for this

Says the terminal e-3

edit: gently caress pretend I quoted pandasmores

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:18

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

Applewhite posted:

Question for enlisted Goons:

When your DIVO has a job for you and he says "We need to take care of whatever task" when he of course really means you need to take care of it, is it more annoying than if he just comes right out and says "You need to do this" or does him saying "we" make you feel more like part of a team?

Asking for a friend.

Your divo shouldn't be loving giving orders to you unless you are the chief of that division or it's some kind of emergency or a 'pick up that can' sort of thing.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 05:13

Nick Soapdish: Apr 27, 2008

ded posted:

Your divo shouldn't be loving giving orders to you unless you are the chief of that division or it's some kind of emergency or a 'pick up that can' sort of thing.

Basically this, if the DIVO isn't working through the :chiefsay:

or LPO or some odd situation (tiny command, watch floor, etc.) then something is not going correctly.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 06:44

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

oh also if your divo is giving you orders like that, do what he says and politely let your cpo/lpo know about it after

# ? Mar 6, 2015 06:54

Pandasmores: May 8, 2009

Fart Sandwiches posted:

Says the terminal e-3

edit: gently caress pretend I quoted pandasmores

Just advice I get from people that don't make the lives of the people under them miserable and go around useless people in higher positions.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 09:13

Fart Sandwiches: Apr 4, 2006; i never asked for this

Our chief was worthless and lpo was worse especially when it came to technical matters. We were a software development shop and out divo actually had a background in that so when it came to technical stuff he didn't trust the chief to relay information properly. Divo would talk to us directly until the chief threw a hissy fit about chain of command and then work slowly ground to a halt because he had no loving idea what we were doing. The miracle of email and leaving people out of the to line brought things back around.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 13:02

Boon: Jun 21, 2005; by R. Guyovich

Since it's now open source - this may be of interest to people in the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ

# ? Mar 6, 2015 14:11

Arione: Aug 19, 2013; by Athanatos

E5 shows up today in a lamborghini gallardo, the hate is palpable. This kid is my hero.

Arione fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Mar 6, 2015

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Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

at all of this

# ? Mar 6, 2015 16:40

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Arione posted:

E5 shows up today in a lamborghini gallardo, the hate is palpable. This kid is my hero.

I always wanted to rent a Ferrari 575 from an exotic dealer for a few days and show up to PT formation in it just to see how fast my 1st Sgt would pull me in to an office

# ? Mar 6, 2015 16:50

Kawasaki Nun: Jul 16, 2001; by Reene

Applewhite posted:

Question for enlisted Goons:

When your DIVO has a job for you and he says "We need to take care of whatever task" when he of course really means you need to take care of it, is it more annoying than if he just comes right out and says "You need to do this" or does him saying "we" make you feel more like part of a team?

Asking for a friend.

How much support are you willing to provide to remove administrative roadblocks to completing the assignment? Saying we suggests a certain level of officer assistance in pushing things through.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 19:11

Dingleberry: Aug 21, 2011

Arione posted:

E5 shows up today in a lamborghini gallardo, the hate is palpable. This kid is my hero.

I went to A school with a guy who got stationed in Hawaii.
He bought an old red Fiero.
He rented a renovated garage for an apartment behind the main house
He was the enlisted....

# ? Mar 6, 2015 19:23

Dingleberry: Aug 21, 2011

# ? Mar 6, 2015 19:28

germskr: Oct 23, 2007; HAHAHA! Ahh Eeeee BPOOF!

Question about correcting a senior person (LDO).

So this guy is all about uniform regulations and whatnot, which is fine but he stopped someone the other day and was hemming them up about attention to detail, etc. I couldn't help but notice his MA badge was not according to regulations (flush to the US Navy tape if it's the cloth badge, 1/4 inch if it's metal- and he's wearing the cloth with the 1/4 inch gap.) Normally I don't care about things like that but I thought it was ironic that he was correcting someone when he himself was not in accordance with regulations. How does one go about "correcting" a senior person who thinks he's God's gift to the Navy?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 20:54

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Have a printed copy of reg on hand

# ? Mar 6, 2015 20:55

Serjeant Buzfuz: Dec 5, 2009

germskr posted:

Question about correcting a senior person (LDO).

So this guy is all about uniform regulations and whatnot, which is fine but he stopped someone the other day and was hemming them up about attention to detail, etc. I couldn't help but notice his MA badge was not according to regulations (flush to the US Navy tape if it's the cloth badge, 1/4 inch if it's metal- and he's wearing the cloth with the 1/4 inch gap.) Normally I don't care about things like that but I thought it was ironic that he was correcting someone when he himself was not in accordance with regulations. How does one go about "correcting" a senior person who thinks he's God's gift to the Navy?

Sounds like a douche, anonymous tip to the CO is what I would do if I dislike the guy.

If he isn't a douche, tell your chief about it if you don't want to tell him yourself.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:04

SpaceJustice: Jan 4, 2010

germskr posted:

Question about correcting a senior person (LDO).

So this guy is all about uniform regulations and whatnot, which is fine but he stopped someone the other day and was hemming them up about attention to detail, etc. I couldn't help but notice his MA badge was not according to regulations (flush to the US Navy tape if it's the cloth badge, 1/4 inch if it's metal- and he's wearing the cloth with the 1/4 inch gap.) Normally I don't care about things like that but I thought it was ironic that he was correcting someone when he himself was not in accordance with regulations. How does one go about "correcting" a senior person who thinks he's God's gift to the Navy?

"Excuse me sir, your badge is off a bit."

Is an anonymous tip to the CO really necessary for something that petty?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:30

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

You should passively aggressively assault him about it. Put up posters with diagrams on every bulletin board he walks past every day. Do poo poo to subtly gently caress with him.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:34

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

You should shipmate him.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:52

germskr: Oct 23, 2007; HAHAHA! Ahh Eeeee BPOOF!

Yeah the CO thing is a gay way to go about it. I'd say it to his face, but he'd probably take it the wrong way. He "and halt"ed a guy in his division who saw him walking up and turned to go in to a building without saluting, but he was definitely 30 paces away.

I like the idea of putting up the instruction on cork boards but that takes a little more effort and it'd be pretty obvious it was me putting them up since people would see. Oh well, guess I'll just go back to minding my own business and thinking that Mustangs are by far, worse than SWOs.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 21:57

Kawasaki Nun: Jul 16, 2001; by Reene

germskr posted:

Question about correcting a senior person (LDO).

So this guy is all about uniform regulations and whatnot, which is fine but he stopped someone the other day and was hemming them up about attention to detail, etc. I couldn't help but notice his MA badge was not according to regulations (flush to the US Navy tape if it's the cloth badge, 1/4 inch if it's metal- and he's wearing the cloth with the 1/4 inch gap.) Normally I don't care about things like that but I thought it was ironic that he was correcting someone when he himself was not in accordance with regulations. How does one go about "correcting" a senior person who thinks he's God's gift to the Navy?

Why bother putting yourself on their radar? As fun as it is to see you can be the biggest pedant its probably not worth the attention, particularly if hes the type of person that likes going around ranting about uniform regs.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:00

Dingleberry: Aug 21, 2011

ded posted:

You should shoremate him.

Wear your badge exactly like his; ask him what he uses to polish his badge.
Brasso, dependent tears, or whatever.
He'll look at yours. If he points out its wrong point out its just like his.
If not wear it the new cooler way and don't be such a baby.

Alternately use your enlistment bonus to hire russian hackers to put kiddie porn on his personal and work laptop. Then dime him out to NCIS.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 22:21

Nwabudike Morgan: Dec 31, 2007

shippie it would behoove you to wear your badge in respect to navy uniform regulation X-X-Y..

# ? Mar 6, 2015 23:26

PneumonicBook: Sep 26, 2007; Do you like our owl?; Ultra Carp

So E7 profile sheets are out. I took the test for LDO purposes and did about as well as I thought I'd do, which is good because I'm getting out of the Navy and didn't really want to put in a package. Two guys in my office who no poo poo studied everyday got a 72 and a 76 which are in the 98th percentile so that's awesome for them, although I don't think your score actually matters as long as you make board.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 23:33

Serjeant Buzfuz: Dec 5, 2009

germskr posted:

Yeah the CO thing is a gay way to go about it. I'd say it to his face, but he'd probably take it the wrong way. He "and halt"ed a guy in his division who saw him walking up and turned to go in to a building without saluting, but he was definitely 30 paces away.

I was mostly being sarcastic, apparently I fail at humor.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 02:23

DustyNuts: Jun 1, 2000; Have you seen me?

Score isn't super important but it can be used as a tie-breaker during the selection board.

I have really come to loving hate the word behoove. Every semiliterate dork in the Navy uses that word to sound smart. Thanks for triggering me Nwabudike Morgan.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 02:50

Nwabudike Morgan: Dec 31, 2007

DustyNuts posted:

Score isn't super important but it can be used as a tie-breaker during the selection board.

I have really come to loving hate the word behoove. Every semiliterate dork in the Navy uses that word to sound smart. Thanks for triggering me Nwabudike Morgan.

my LPO used to say it all the time and it is permanently tattooed on my brain

# ? Mar 7, 2015 03:31

Fart Sandwiches: Apr 4, 2006; i never asked for this

# ? Mar 7, 2015 03:40

Nwabudike Morgan: Dec 31, 2007

Fart Sandwiches posted:

terminal lance is great, totally relate-able between navy and marines, same with SMLPOS

# ? Mar 7, 2015 04:13

bengy81: May 8, 2010

DustyNuts posted:

Score isn't super important but it can be used as a tie-breaker during the selection board.

I have really come to loving hate the word behoove. Every semiliterate dork in the Navy uses that word to sound smart. Thanks for triggering me Nwabudike Morgan.

IRREGARDLESS of your feelings Petty Officer, it would BEHOOVE you to UNFUCK your ATTITUDE before I have to put my size 10 boot up your rear end. :chiefsay:

# ? Mar 7, 2015 04:39

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

ded posted:

You should shipmate him.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 04:42

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

I shipmate people all the time because I'm SWO trash.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 04:43

poopkitty: Oct 16, 2013; WE ARE ALL ONE

bengy81 posted:

IRREGARDLESS of your feelings Petty Officer, it would BEHOOVE you to UNFUCK your ATTITUDE before I have to put my size 10 boot up your rear end.

You have potential, Shipmate.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 08:56

Sir Lucius: Aug 3, 2003

my boots have been out of regs for 4 years and I dont plan on changing that. No way I'd correct someone senior just to end up in their crosshairs.

# ? Mar 7, 2015 09:27

Cerekk: Sep 24, 2004; Oh my god, JC!

Sir Lucius posted:

my boots have been out of regs for 4 years and I dont plan on changing that. No way I'd correct someone senior just to end up in their crosshairs.

idk which member of Task Force Uniform ended up on the board of directors of Bates after they retired but I wouldn't be sad if they mysteriously disappeared

# ? Mar 7, 2015 22:54