Sorry leadership

So I was the floor manager today for the company. You have read my previous post as to how late I worked yesterday. Then I had to get up and 0245 this morning just to get to MEPS this morning. And I had to drive in the snow to get there. Hey 1sg that was very safe. Also what was safe was having one of my other reruiters be at the meps the same time I had to be there. He had no reason to be there other than my 1SG wanted him there, very very stupid. So I was on the floor all day. Up all day since 0245. Bottom line is this, our station had two guys who wanted certain jobs and there was no training available. And the Recruiting Operations Command was not working with us. (See you just cannot come into the office and get whatever job you want.) So anyway after everyone under the fucking sunshine talking to these two, they still didn't join. So I talk to them in the car, then I had to take them to another station commander he talked to them. Then they had to go and talk to the 1SG. And the whole time the roads are icing over. Anyway we I had to go back to the office and pull a job for them, they agreed to go back down on Friday. So I get back to the office, I notice all the recruiters are gone. Now I find out from my 1SG he sent them all home. Ok that is fine, but why do I have to stay and pull jobs on these guys when all my recruiters have been released for safety considerations. I have been up since 0245, been up the whole damn time, then I have to stay at the office till about 2100 again, to pull a jobs on two people who didn't pick jobs earlier today. So now why don't we give everyone at least a little time to decompress? And why am I still at work when the roads are iced over, where is the consideration for my fucking safety? That is what I want to know. What a jackhole for a leader.

more jacked up shit.

So, this morning starts off with my asshat first sergeant giving me a call. I don't think there is a day that goes by that he doesn't call me. Every fucking morning I get a phone call from this jackass. This morning was about how some projection was not showing on the system. So I am thinking great here we go again. This computerized version of recruiting is going to be our damn downfall. I remember back in the day all you had to do was fax a couple of pieces of paper to the MEPS and your person was good as long as you had the packet tight before the applicant sat down in the chair with the counsler. Now these days with the advent of computers, (which are supposed to make life easier), it is all fucked up. Now everything starts with that computer. OK lets say we have someone that is ready to join up. First off they have to be able to pass the ASVAB test, then they have to be squeeky clean on the medical. And if they are not clean on medical then that opens up a whole new can of worms. Then they have to damn near be clean on law violations. (contrary to popular belief that the Army takes any and every swinging dick and twat that come through the door.) Now in the old days we filled out a handwritten packet. In this paper saving system we have now, we have to print off an application, which is just a printed out blank sf-86. Then after the applicant brings all that to us along with their documents. Then the fucking really fun stuff starts. All this information gets typed in the system. Then we have to go out and physically run police and court checks everywhere the applicant has ever lived worked or went to school. Now you are probably saying wait, the reg says this. Well how we are told to do it here is run them everywhere they list on the SF-86 or in ARISS. After we get all those police checks back then we have to do an applicant prescreen checklist. And this thing is fucking ridiculous. It asks them like over 144 questions, of all this crazy ass shit. What this thing is designed to do is to shake loose anything that the applicant may suddenly remember down at the MEPS while going through the medical portion. While the intent of this thing is good. What it has turned into is a damn parade of stupidity. First the recruiter has to go through this with the applicant, then the station commander has to do it, then the first sergeant has to do it. And all this time you and the applicant are at the mercy of when the first sergeant (who has to have it done before the applicant can join mind you) can do this prescreen checklist. What winds up happening, this thing gets printed out faxed to someone faxed back, scanned into the system. It gets crazy as hell. And to top all this off you have to have their documents scanned in the system, along with the medical prescreen, which is seperate from the other precreen we do. Now this shit has to be done 72 hours prior to the applicant hitting the MEPS. Now back in the day, I could get a packet done in like less than a day and half at most have them projected and someone could be in the Army in less than 3 days. Now we have to go through this damn ordeal everytime someone has to join now. What kills me is the fact with less tech we put more people in. Now with all this technology we are being bogged down in the bullshit. It frustrates me to no damn end. If someone walked into my office let's say on Monday and wanted to join tomorrow, well they just cannot do it. Back in the day if someone walked into the office on Monday and wanted to enlist on Tuesday or Wednesday we could make it happen. Oh well, but hey sarge the computer is going to make it easier for you.
The only thing that is any easier on the computer now is the waiver process. Tech in that part of the recruiting process has helped ten fold. I can now get a waiver pushed through in record time. Back in the day we had to fed ex copies of packets to the waiver clerk then they had to fed ex shit out etc. Well now it's all in there electronically. Oh and the 72 hour rule still applies when they finally get to join too. Well like the saying goes that is all I have to say about that.