My DIVO (My boss) said this week that, "if you're asking whether to give liberty to those on watch or not, NO, because they already get enough days off". This wasn't in response to a question I asked, just to someone else. I don't ask for days off outside of my approved leave dates.

I was quite pissed. I expressed that, "Having a man who works less hours than me, doesn't work nights, weekends, or holidays, doesn't have restrictions to the days you can take off, to tell me I have ENOUGH days off is RICH"

We'll see how that plays out.

Also...

I just finished up 4 weeks of Korean language training. 3 students total with 1 instructor. She went out of her way to make me feel incompetent, alienated, insufficient at every chance she got. When I addressed this issue to her politely in an email at 1000 EST, she emailed big Navy that she doesn't appreciate being emailed "after hours". Technically our hours were 2-10 EST. Who is forced to check their emails? Who does that as a professional?

No answer as to why she didn't like me, just a constant effort to show me. Why? Why go out of your way to be different to someone?

I'm going to make every effort to ensure she doesn't treat some young Sailor in the future that way, someone who may be dealing with being away from home and feeling down to start with.

People are shit sometimes...don't let em get to you, fuck em.

Sometimes in the military as well as in civilian applications the old addage...:" RHIP"..(rank has its privlidges) and some people like to throw their weight around just because they can and not worried about anybody doing anything about it. Just be careful to stay out of their way...drill sgt.

Some people are just assholes, and it sucks when they get put into a position of authority. It's especially infuriating when they're the type of person who loves to nitpick even the most insignificant infractions of everyone else while blatantly flaunting the rules themselves.

I can definitely relate, but don't have a lot of advice for dealing with it beyond just remembering how much those people suck, and to never do the same thing when I'm in a position of leadership.

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I just finished up 4 weeks of Korean language training. 3 students total with 1 instructor. She went out of her way to make me feel incompetent, alienated, insufficient at every chance she got.

Maybe she's a DEI adherent who just hates men.

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I just finished up 4 weeks of Korean language training. 3 students total with 1 instructor. She went out of her way to make me feel incompetent, alienated, insufficient at every chance she got.

Maybe she's a DEI adherent who just hates men.

I did wonder if it was because firearms and a huge safe were visible in the background of my webcam.

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Some people are just assholes, and it sucks when they get put into a position of authority. It's especially infuriating when they're the type of person who loves to nitpick even the most insignificant infractions of everyone else while blatantly flaunting the rules themselves.

I worked for a few of those over the years. One in particular used to play the “power card”,threatening transfers etc. He liked to hold things above your head about “how are you going to pay your bills?”, things like that. Long story short he and I got into an argument over a job assignment that I previously had and was going to go back to it despite promises that I was done with it.

It got heated, I told him that I wasn’t going back to it (a lot more back story to it) and he said “I ought to fire you. What are you going to do then?” The reputation I had in that business, I’d have been working within a day anyhow so that wasn’t a concern.

My reply to him was “I really don’t know what I’ll do bit I’ll tell you something. I won’t be sleeping under a bridge. We paid the house off eight months ago so go **** yourself” as I walked out of his office.

Someone else got assigned to the job. Oh he’d start shit and I’d just tell him “Do what you have to do” in the subsequent years until I retired. And he didn’t do anything, all bluff.

You find assholes everywhere.

The CFO of a company called an "urgent" meeting in the morning of Friday scheduled Friday 5 PM. Everyone in the department had to be there.

He was late one hour for the urgent meeting he called. The purpose of his meeting? He wanted to say how much he appreciated how hard everyone had been working and to show his appreciation, he brought 10 lottery tickets to be raffled among the whole department.

On a Friday late afternoon he called the meeting to tell people he appreciated their hard work when most of them would have rightfully been on their way home already. That's being oblivious.

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Originally posted by Expert308:

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I just finished up 4 weeks of Korean language training. 3 students total with 1 instructor. She went out of her way to make me feel incompetent, alienated, insufficient at every chance she got.

Maybe she's a DEI adherent who just hates men.

I did wonder if it was because firearms and a huge safe were visible in the background of my webcam.

You could file an EO complaint for a hostile work environment. I kid, but it might be an option.