Chief Billy Ray and the DO Staff

So.....AFTER SrA Parker's Enlisted Performance Report (EPR) becomes a matter of record I was called into the commander's office with the Chief, the Director of Operations ((DO), and two of the Assistant Director of Operations (ADOs). Each of them apologized (at the commander's order) that I wasn't consulted with the rating changes and that they didn't follow Air Force instruction (AFI). Their reasoning: "We didn't want to cause further delay on and EPR that was over it's suspense already." The fact that it was over it's suspense is due to their oversight. I was told I wouldn't even have to write this thing in the first place, that the directorate staff would handle it. So I took all that time off when Hillary was here. I got back to work on 08Jan04 and a MSgt tells me: "I don't know where the hell you think you've been, but your EPR is 9 days late! It was highlighted in front of the O-6 this morning." So, somehow, all this became my fault. I took 8 inputs and transformed them into 18 lines on the EPR in 4 hours. That was a furious 4 hours. And then you know the rest there. They didn't like the 4 I gave her, changed my rating and the rater's rater rating (RRR), destroyed all hard copies of the EPR I had, the stupid fucking Justification Paper we have to write (explaining why we feel anything less than FIREWALL on the front side is warranted) was destroyed and rewritten, and several of the actually bullets were changed. Numbers were buffed up (such as: 236 hours became 650 hours), lines were added to include volunteer work that had never been done (she had zero hours of volunteer work in the last year) and my "mark-downs" on the front were changed. And of course, fuck me, I can't prove a damn bit of it. So I got an apology off the record and a "strong encouragement" to drop it.

Guys, I almost wish I had another shitty airman whose EPR was due in like, two weeks. I'd do it right this time. Unfortunately, I don't. But that one will be due in July...one month before I'm outie.

Mungo