“I swear I can’t stand this place, and whats becoming of me the longer I have to stay, I want to think all unthinkable things and say what I shouldn’t say, I need a change,” A Call To Arms by Bayside.
March 20th will be my official detaching day onboard my ship, though I do not fly out until the 26th via MAC flight. The same day I detach will also be my last hoorah out in the Honch. I still need to sort out the details with Admin to find out if they will put me in TPU because I don’t fly out until the next week, or have to stay at a friends’ house. I really didn’t want to leave until the 23rd for reason that I can not say, but unfortunately if I did do that, I would have to stand my last duty day on the 20th.
At most normal commands, you would think that your CoC would do something appreciative like give you your last duty day off in regards to all the hard work you’ve done for the last 3 years, but instead I got something like, “we don’t believe in a last duty day off.” The last IT who tried to request a last duty day off was eventually yelled at because he didn’t feel he should route it to the Captain because anything given to the Captain, according to the command, you are to utilize the CoC for anything routed, especially when it will require the CO’s approval. Because my CoC doesn’t believe in it, they will not route it, and instead requested that I route a leave chit for that day. That becomes pointless since I would have to route it for the whole weekend since it begins on a Friday and my leave would start that Monday anyways, so that makes no sense. I just said fuck it and will detach as normal.
This goes to show how much my command cares about the morale and quality of life of its crew. I will live on the streets than have to take any extra days on this ship. Only a few weeks left; that’s all I have to say about that!
Yeah that was a tough battle to fight when I was leaving. I sure pissed the Chief off, but I still got my duty day off.