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Wake up call!
Ok I have been awaken or come to the realization that I was brainwashed you might say in the USMC. So as a Sgt my job was many things. I had to throw myself in front of the bus for those Marines under my charge. I knew them personally i knew there at home struggles financial personal and many different issues. I had to be a friend and a boss and know when and how to turn that off like a switch. I had to know there job strengths and weaknesses. Make sure they went to see the doc medical. Approve disapprove leave aka vacation PTO etc. plan and execute getting simple things like fixing or repair a car for the spouse as he or she was miles and miles away and they were home with kids. Mow the lawn baby sit. I slept many nights on someone else’s couch to get a child to school as the mother was in labor. And no family grandparents close by. We stuck together we all watched each other’s backs. We fought argued with each other but we always got the mission done.
Another thing is those bosses AKA officers the ones we called butter bars 1st 2nd Lts up to Captain. Well they had the last say they were the ones when they spoke we jumped. But us Sgts were the ones who trained them in out of the others eyes we had closed door meetings. We taught them our jobs because they would not be there long enough to master that job so they the smart ones relied heavily on us and enlisted ranks above us . Now fast forward to civilian life. I find I feel sorry for my boss as I still have that mentality. I am a details person so i read the scope SOW and know it in and out when i get one . I execute plan and send crews on mission. The boss sometimes goes directly to the crews and well thats where i forget i am not in the USMC anymore as i go to him. I say has something changed in the contract as we are supposed to do this or that. He might say I wasn’t told that. I say its right here in SOW he reads it and says oh i didn’t catch that. So somehow I have to figure out how to stop being so specific and not buck the boss. But at same time I hate to let anything fall through the cracks. Because if it does we all know stuff flows down hill gravity always wins. I am getting a new boss soon so i am trying to fix myself before then. If you are the boss and you give me a sow scope to execute a project. Do you want me telling you hey you told them not to do X but SOW sais X is required. Or should i just smile and say yes sir yes maam and when client says where is X. Do i just take the butt chewing and move on for missing something i knew was required or what. I miss stuff for sure. No doubt. I just trying to get better as i know at times my old boss had to be like this guy is nuts. Lol.
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