THERE'S no need to fear...

[Sailor]

...Un - Oops, wrong character. Mine wears a silly hat.

Sailor here, reporting for duty. And unlike the former Dimwit Dem presidential candidate I can salute properly.

Glad to see so many of the gang already logged in.

[mateo]

Sailor said:

...Un - Oops, wrong character. Mine wears a silly hat.

Sailor here, reporting for duty. And unlike the former Dimwit Dem presidential candidate I can salute properly.

Glad to see so many of the gang already logged in.

I know you've probably told me this already, but what rate were you in the Navy?

[Sailor]

Mateo said:

I know you've probably told me this already, but what rate were you in the Navy?

I don't recall if I did nor not shipmate. I was a CTA - Cryptologic Technician (Administrative), or a Yeoman with a "burn before reading" security clearance.

I read your diatribe, bitching about "dayworkers." You hit the nail square and had me chuckling out loud, though for the first 12 years of my career that's exactly what I was even while on staff at RTC Great Mistakes.

I hate to tell you what we thought about watchstanders.

Now I work for a Home Medical Services company and I have exactly the same complaints about our "clinical" types (fat ass nurses and lazy therapists) that you had about the "primadona" dayworkers.

And I'm still dayworking with lots of job security cleaning up and decyphering their fuckups. Some things never change.

Take care buddy.

[mateo]

Sailor said:

I don't recall if I did nor not shipmate. I was a CTA - Cryptologic Technician (Administrative), or a Yeoman with a "burn before reading" security clearance.

I read your diatribe, bitching about "dayworkers." You hit the nail square and had me chuckling out loud, though for the first 12 years of my career that's exactly what I was even while on staff at RTC Great Mistakes.

I hate to tell you what we thought about watchstanders.

Now I work for a Home Medical Services company and I have exactly the same complaints about our "clinical" types (fat ass nurses and lazy therapists) that you had about the "primadona" dayworkers.

And I'm still dayworking with lots of job security cleaning up and decyphering their fuckups. Some things never change.

Take care buddy.

I'm suprised the watchstanders and the day workers havn't had a huge gang war in the parking lot yet. I'd rahter be a watchstander and work my 14 days a month rather than drive the hour commute five days a week.

My little bitch session of exagerated for comedic effect, of course, but emailed that to everyone in my section and they all got a kick out of it. I'm an OS, BTW.

[Sailor]

"My little bitch session of exagerated for comedic effect, of course, but emailed that to everyone in my section and they all got a kick out of it."

I don't doubt it, I still remember some of the back and forth BS and such between the day staff and the watch standers in the Communications Division in Hawaii. Man, some of it got downright nasty! The WOMEN watchstanders especially could get downright underhanded and sneaky. We finally cooled things off with a couple of games of "Animal Ball" (Volleyball with a twist.)

"I'm an OS, BTW." We didn't have any OS types serving ashore anywhere I was stationed except as Company Commanders at Great Lakes RTC. They called 12 to 14 hour days when they had a company "a vacation." After seeing them pull "Port and Starboard" 4 on/4 off at sea for months at a time, I believe it. Compared to them I had it cushie, an 8 hour midwatch with 4 to 6 hours of "regular" work while at sea. When we hit port, while everyone pulled Liberty, I had to get busy. I can sympathize with "Radar OReilly" of M*A*S*H.

What kind of watch schedule did you pull at sea. Hope it wasn't as fucked as OUR OSs pulled.