Marie
Patron
I couldn’t resist…
I had been at ASHO (on the org grounds) for 1 week. Before that for a while I was an expeditor on the Uniform PAC msn, but ASHO staff.
I was on post as Treas sec (Don’t remember SO term) for 2 days, we had a msn in the building that was for computerizing the accounts and I was learning a hat that no one was there to turn over the info except my junior who was payables, she did a quick hat and off I went to do the job.
So I am passing thru the reception area, and the CO (KT) stops me… In the middle of the area she degrades me about my downstats. How my area is in a danger and that a comm.-ev would occur if it didn’t get handled. I freaked out, I was in tears, and went to my office closed the door (which I wasn’t supposed to do) and sat there not knowing what to do to make this work.
I had never been nuked before, I hadn’t ever been yelled at before (in the SO), I hadn’t been sent to ethics except to be sent back to session. I had been in for at least for 3 ½ years…
Now as I have written before, I was sort of a drifter during most of my SO time, from missions to msn coverage (always in orgs that were below my org – so no-one in these orgs could really discipline me – and when I did need a slap on the wrist they would report it, via KR, to the msn ops, who would usually be too busy – and I always corrected my action on a small mention, so it wasn’t an ongoing issue).
So I am sitting in my office crying and the Mission I/C comes in (by the way, weird note she turned out to be my godmother, she had been on staff at Detroit and knew my parents, at the time I was born was a very close friend of theirs). She asked me why I was crying, I told her.
She said “Why did you let her do that, you have not been on post – those were not your stats. You aren’t going to make it if you can’t stand your ground!!! You are a well-trained, well experienced staff member who should know better!!!” (I think she also had a little talk with the CO, but I cannot be sure.)
The next time I was asked to do an all hands for call-in (I offered to write letters instead, because my post would have been empty and would have effected org income). I refused, I had policy to back up my position, offered a solution that would have helped the effort, I had the experience (and ethics presence) to handle the flack it caused. And in the end, it was a good experience, but at the time….
I had been at ASHO (on the org grounds) for 1 week. Before that for a while I was an expeditor on the Uniform PAC msn, but ASHO staff.
I was on post as Treas sec (Don’t remember SO term) for 2 days, we had a msn in the building that was for computerizing the accounts and I was learning a hat that no one was there to turn over the info except my junior who was payables, she did a quick hat and off I went to do the job.
So I am passing thru the reception area, and the CO (KT) stops me… In the middle of the area she degrades me about my downstats. How my area is in a danger and that a comm.-ev would occur if it didn’t get handled. I freaked out, I was in tears, and went to my office closed the door (which I wasn’t supposed to do) and sat there not knowing what to do to make this work.
I had never been nuked before, I hadn’t ever been yelled at before (in the SO), I hadn’t been sent to ethics except to be sent back to session. I had been in for at least for 3 ½ years…
Now as I have written before, I was sort of a drifter during most of my SO time, from missions to msn coverage (always in orgs that were below my org – so no-one in these orgs could really discipline me – and when I did need a slap on the wrist they would report it, via KR, to the msn ops, who would usually be too busy – and I always corrected my action on a small mention, so it wasn’t an ongoing issue).
So I am sitting in my office crying and the Mission I/C comes in (by the way, weird note she turned out to be my godmother, she had been on staff at Detroit and knew my parents, at the time I was born was a very close friend of theirs). She asked me why I was crying, I told her.
She said “Why did you let her do that, you have not been on post – those were not your stats. You aren’t going to make it if you can’t stand your ground!!! You are a well-trained, well experienced staff member who should know better!!!” (I think she also had a little talk with the CO, but I cannot be sure.)
The next time I was asked to do an all hands for call-in (I offered to write letters instead, because my post would have been empty and would have effected org income). I refused, I had policy to back up my position, offered a solution that would have helped the effort, I had the experience (and ethics presence) to handle the flack it caused. And in the end, it was a good experience, but at the time….
