Had a $h!tty conversation with my company commander last night. Not only am I stuck going on this exercise, he made it sound like it's my fault. Told me I need to manage my career better. Um, how am I supposed to manage it when you don't tell me?!? I ain't a mind reader. I asked to be put on the list for the local training course at the end of May, I planned around attending that course in May, I AM on the list to attend that course in May. How am I supposed to ask to be removed from a list that I don't know I'm even on?!? Then he tells me it probably could have been changed if I had asked earlier...again, how can I ask if I don't know!?!?!?!
Then found out that I'm not the only one who magically appeared on the list for this exercise. And one in particular is having problems with the last minute notice. One of my poor specialists is having a hard time arranging childcare and he threatened her with an Article 15 for missing movement. F'ing a$$.
Then to top it off, he told me that even though he said I could have Saturday May 14th off to attend SIL's wedding, he hadn't signed my leave request form yet, and now he's not going to. He's taking it back because the battalion executive officer said a wedding was not a good enough excuse, someone has to die. Best part is, the battalion executive officer has no real say over this. My company commander is the only one who needed to approve the request, and he'd already done so verbally. So all he had to say was, sorry sir, it's already been approved. But no, he rolled over and threw me under the bus. I have no respect left for him. He's just a pushover who's so interested in brown-nosing his own career he'll throw all those under his command to the wolves.
My first sergeant is livid. She said she's going to talk to him and probably the battalion sergeant major as well.
I am SO looking forward to his deployment now. If only because first sergeant and I will be in charge and we will put a stop to all this BS!!!
Michelle - Proud DR Rockette S: 28JUL07, D'd: 29OCT09 http://tinyurl.com/27j9qo2
