Talk about days...

Yeah Mungo, you must explain. Let us have the skinny.

I had a MSgt flip out on me this morning. I was given a tasking yesterday to update the unit web page with some information. This MSgt that had nothing to do with the tasking decided how he wanted it done. I politely suggested that we wait and see exactly how the big boss wants the information presented. NOT a good thing to say. MSgt got really excited and started telling me that this is how it should be done and that I should be proactive. I continued to explain that all we would be doing is creating more work by doing something that was just going to have to be undone if the boss didn't want it that way. I just wanted to wait for the official tasking. MSgt went home for the day.

So I made up the page EXACTLY the way that the boss told me to. It was run up the chain and I got an email from the Commander thanking me for a great job. Of course, the way they wanted it done was opposite of what MSgt was saying.

So, today comes around. MSgt sees the work that I have done and starts going off about how I didn't do it right and that some critical information is missing. He was already excited and I haven't had the chance to even get one word out. I was PISSED! I told him that instead of getting mad right away why didn't he just ask me why it was done this way. "Well, why the fuck is [sensitive information] missing from the page!?" I got mad and said that I did exactly what the boss said. It was run up the chain and approved so don't jump on me for it! He lost it. I simply told him that I didn't want to talk about this anymore and that we should wait until my supervisor came in to discuss this. He just wouldn't shut up! I was called a cocksucker at least twice among other choice words. Finally he told me to get in the office. (yes all this was in an open environment).

I said that I wanted to wait until my supervisor came in. "Get in the damn office, that's an order!" So I asked another MSgt who had been watching it all to come in too. I wasn't about to go in alone. He just kept going off about how I wasn't professional and that I had better start showing respect to senior assholios...I mean senior NCO's. I just about jumped out of the chair! Me? Me? This bastard was telling me about being professional when I had not uttered one swear word that whole time? I laid in to him about it and finally he backed down on that issue a little. The other MSgt that witnessed it all had to tell him that he was the one that began the whole thing by going off. He told him that I had done exactly what I was told to do!

Finally, ding dong calmed down and just told me to watch how I speak to senior NCO's in the future. I just about fell over. I got up and left the office. The rest of day went well.

That is my story. May 2006 can't get here soon enough. See Ya!

ST