Pusser
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
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I didn't intend to get into a bunfight over who works hardest or over how the workload is distributed. However, I will argue that all-ship evolutions affect everyone and other departments have work that they too feel is affected and/or delayed by having to participate in them as well.
I recall an incident many years ago when I was young OOD. I was under a lot of pressure to get the ship stored and there seemed to be a distinct lack of personnel coming up for a "clear lower decks" evolution. So, I sent the POOD through the ship to roust the stragglers. The next thing you know, I'm getting an earful from the Chief HT for daring to try and take away his personnel who were doing much more important things. Interesting I thought when in fact, we were only rousting those who weren't doing anything else. The individuals in question were actually just sitting around. In other words, they weren't doing what the Chief HT wanted them to be doing either….
I recall an incident many years ago when I was young OOD. I was under a lot of pressure to get the ship stored and there seemed to be a distinct lack of personnel coming up for a "clear lower decks" evolution. So, I sent the POOD through the ship to roust the stragglers. The next thing you know, I'm getting an earful from the Chief HT for daring to try and take away his personnel who were doing much more important things. Interesting I thought when in fact, we were only rousting those who weren't doing anything else. The individuals in question were actually just sitting around. In other words, they weren't doing what the Chief HT wanted them to be doing either….