Snow and Ice

I have some thoughts about the mission and the dreaded snow and ice. So here it goes. Why is it that the leaders will not allow govt cars to be on the road. Because there is a risk of them getting wrecked, and the recruiter getting hurt. But we are willing to have them risk their lives in a POV come to the office and make phone calls to high school seniors who maybe out of school. I know there are those out there that says that's the judgement call of the leadership. I have touched on this all before about the snow and ice. And another thing about the phone calls is it not about time that those things go away? I mean really we live in a age of caller id, social networking, facebook, blogs like this, and the like. What gets me is this, people know who is calling, if they answer 90% of the time they are going to tell a recruiter no their son or daughter is going to college anyway. You know what? Don't care we are doing good anyway. So honestly I don't see the point of making all these phone calls. And yes I am talking from a station commander point of view here. That is one of the most pointless prospecting tools we have is that damn phone prospecting. Why not send everyone out with a list and just knock on people's doors most of the day. I know when I did it, I found a lot of people this way. Sometimes I found people I was not out really looking for. Even the FM says this is the most effective way to get contracts. And to me the bottom line is about everything. Anyway bottom line is this. Why have these guys come in and make phone calls, I mean really is one 8 hour day going to make that big of an impact on the end game? No it won't. I mean the top brass will shut down operations in the name of training. Make everyone attend training no matter what you have going on. I have been told to tell recruiters to schedule the apt or that packet getting built and have them at training. That crap right there has hurt more people getting in than a few snow days.

For the first time today in a while I have seen people being grouped together for not writing a contract. Correct me if I am wrong but are we not allowed to do this anymore? I thought (maybe I am wrong) there was a message put out about this. But it essentially says that it is up to the station commander as to how to complete the mission. Recruiters are not to be held to individual contract missioning. Station commanders are not supposed to be counseling soldiers on contract placement and such crap as that. If I as a station commander wanted two recruiters just prospecting one doing the packets and the other as my future soldier manager. Then that's the way it should be and no one should me fucking with me if we are making the mission. At least that is what I was taking from the message. But I could be wrong. So why was it today that our 1SG is worried about why particular recruiters didn't write a contract this past month. I mean don't get me wrong, in this day and age there shouldn't be an excuse. But he should have at least asked the station commander hey what did you have recruiter XYZ doing this past month? Station commander gives the answer and the everyone moves out.
Now we are hearing about leadline, well let me clue some of you in on this one. I thought we were always on leadline thinking. At least I have been. Leadline is when you attain the goals on your MAP (Mission Accomplishment Plan) on a weekly basis. I mean if you fall behind on your leadline then you will have to work twice has hard the next week and so on down the road. By attaining leadline this will prevent the station as a whole from having to try and do what some of us call "Stovepiping" in other words trying to throw down everything you have in the last week of the month, because at the beginning of the next month you won't have shit to show for it. Stovpiping is a viscious cycle that I have seen before. While there is a time and place for it. It usually shouldn't be done month in and month out. So why is this leadline thing a new idea? If you as a station comander are running your station the right way then this leadline thing shouldn't be a fucking issue.