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Amen, brother. A-freakin-men.
Regardless of your rate, you spend most of your time cleaning since they don’t know what else to do with you, just that you have to be working somehow.
Often, you would end up spending the day cleaning the same thing repeatedly.
Don’t worry buddy, the longer you’re there,the more you train, and the higher you get in rank, the more time you’ll spend on your actual job. Trust me on this, I know.
Actually, the higher up in rank you get, the more time you spend telling other people to clean…
DING DING DING! This is the correct answer! LMAO!
Zapp Branigan: You won’t have time for sleeping, soldier! Not with all the bed-making you’ll be doing….
It’s like that at Walmart too.
Though rather than actual cleaning. It’s just putting crap back that lazy customers can’t bother to put back.
It’s also someone’s job to clean the bathroom, but that doesn’t mean it’s ok to use the sink as a toilet.
Is that why they don’t like me at Walmart?
Customer Fail!
MY job is to make paint and keys for customers and stock items.
But since the managers suck at actually hiring enough people, I’m constantly pulled to the towels/rugs/curtains area because customers are too lazy to put crap back where they got it.
I would have guessed 50% “filling out forms in order to acquire the form you need in order to get the paperwork in order to get permission to do your job.”
Someone is in the Air Force!
or the army, i recently filled out a form to wipe my own ass
You forgot playing Playstation. That’s all I did in the Navy while on my ship.
Correction….on “the” ship
My ship.. the ship… I’ve heard sailors use both in the same conversation.
that only holds true if you were an idiot and work the line side. Staff side actually have real jobs to do.
I was an ET. The most work I had to do was when our radars went down during a man overboard. That was a nightmare.
did you have a captain that insisted on having his own personal radar?
One that was made for private boats and got fried every time the SLQ-32 was tested?
fun times…fun times
Nope. Fortunately he was a good guy. Though he did pretty much lock himself in his cabin when the women collectively had aunt flow come to town.
Wow, I’ve not heard it called that before.
Yea, it’s true, we do time together if we work together etc.
Proof that women secretly run the world =B
Haha, so true. My husband guards an office for 12 hours a day, and he’s a radio tech.
Higher up in rate? Don’t work that way! Wish I still had that picture of a Lt Col up to his elbows in a crapper.
But you’re taught/trained to clean your gear and your room so when cleaning you’re actually doing what you’re trained to do too.
Hilarious, Marine here and we were just talking about this today!
Hmmm… There should be a similar graph for Army/Marine deployments with the little sliver saying “Blood curdling fire fights” and the huge chunk saying “throwing rocks at stuff.” Maybe I’ll try to make that…
Like sucks for the cannon fodder, huh?
Well, someone has to do it.
BSTR.
Having fought in vietnam all I can say is the small part of ‘doing what your trained to do’ makes you look forward to the cleaning.
You forgot the “standing in Lines” part. Thats more prominent than the cleaning. Stand in formation, stand in line for shots, stand in line for forms, stand in line for food. Ridiculous.
HURRY UP! NOW WAIT!
When I was in the Navy I actually stood in one line for so long (after working an 18 hour shift) that I forgot what I was in line for.
Goes along with my idea to illuminate the majority of the military. Work more efficiently = need less people.
Illuminate? You want to light up the majority of the military?
Or did you mean Eliminate?
And aren’t we glad that people who don’t know the difference aren’t making decisions regarding the size of the military.
Sir Yes sir. I meant eliminate sir. Sir I apologize for misspelling a word sir. Sir thank you for correcting me sir.
That’s a lot of sir sandwiches there.
mmm sir sammitch nom nom
Hey! I found a use for all of those old Christmas lights.
I know the US has a higher proportion of its population in military service than some of its allies. Can anyone from an allied military say how well this graph applies to them?
Just thought it was hilarious that so many the comments were Navy-centric. Oh, and I would add on the graph the 15% of doing other people’s jobs (peripheral duties) that they can’t be entrusted with. I saw one nuke MM1 who was an on-board EMT, training LPO for three different divisions, qualified in supplies, and the torpedo room LPO on top of his nuke watches.
I NEED A DETAIL!
you know what? the person who designed this is either a dreg in the military or has never been in because I am the proud sister of an american soldier and she works her ass off, NOT CLEANING, don’t insult the rest of the troops.
Lame. I’m sure she does. Probably cleaning. Like what I and everyone else I knew hod to do.
Actually, I rescind that comment. There’s probably somebody in the military that does their job.
I can’t speak for the Army, but if you are enlisted Navy, you aren’t getting away without your mandatory 3 month cranking duty.
Talk about cleaning detail…
Not an insult, but a fact. You should be proud of your sister for serving, no matter what. The taxpayers(I are one. Now.) deserve to have all that equipment they paid for clean and well maintained. You should be respectful of those that clean, as well. They’re not ‘dregs’, they’re ‘junior enlisted’.
Proud sister of? Meaning, you in fact are not in the military. Sorry sister, but i work my ass off too. In the Military, though this graph is exaggerated, about half of what we do is useless paper work, standing in lines, or cleaning something that just got cleaned twenty minutes ago. It’s part of that whole military lifestyle thing.
Sry but women in the military don’t do a whole lot there to busy about not breaking a nail
very funny but not true…not completely at least…i’ve seen it before…
Hated deceptive lighting, but most of the weird stuff was handled by the duty guy, unless you had a refrigerator sized motor blow a bearing in some god-forsaken hole somewhere. I was actually an EM, but we compared notes with the ETs from time to time, since their stuff doesn’t work if ours doesn’t.
“If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t, paint it.”
Sorry for the flashbacks, but if it means anything, Slick 32 was contemporary with my service, 20 years ago.
What if you’re a janitor in the military?
you’re repeating yourself
REDUNDANT MILITARY JOBS ARE REDUNDANT
.(in reality janitors are usually civvie contractors or just low ranking guys who f’ed up)
As an example to those who have never been in, I just got done with 8 hours of duty, four of which, being Sunday (into Monday) was “Field Day”, meaning I spent four hours cleaning the same boat that the four crews immediately preceding mine had each already cleaned for four hours. It gets kinda tricky to be the last in line trying to find something to clean…You could eat off of nearly every surface on my boat, as long as you don’t mind the taste of Simple Green…
Simple green what?
Sorry, have never been in uniform so I lack the vocab. Is army food as bas as we are made to believe or do you have decent chefs? I always wondered who got the worse food: soldiers on the front line, astronauts in space or students…
Simple Green=The brand name of cleaner the Navy (and the other branches, I assume) uses for most everything. It’s a great degreaser, a decent all-purpose cleaner, and-if you don’t dissolve it at all–our most effective paint stripper.
I LOVE the taste of Simple Green!!
We buff the deckplates in my engine room every Friday… Back when I was a private, I thought that was a joke, like going to get the key to the sea chest or getting some shore line out of the bosun locker…
Military cleaning…
If it’s clean, wash it.
If it’s dirty, paint it.
i dont know what you’re doing wrong but i know i havent had to clean all that much…even being under everyone else in the shop. i learned my rate very well. but i see what you’re talking about. they do the same thing to my hubby. maybe thats the difference between sea and shore based commands.
This is the perfect example of a Coast Guard fisheries patrol in the early 90’s off Washington/Oregon. Just add in 5% random mainspace fire drills and you’re all set. “Sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms!” “what the hell do you think I’ve been doing for the last 8 hours?”
Hmmm….i never had this problem.
Of course, my job was too important/hard to fill to have us doing silly make-work like this.
All you squids that mopped and painted all the time, i have a message for you:
when i was deployed, i did my (very difficult) job, and enjoyed 24 hours off every seven days.
Suck it.
What were you, a carrier deck hand? Fighter pilot? SEAL? Something where you could actually get killed?
I think you just got lucky, and it didn’t have that much to do with the difficulty of your job. All the people I know who have difficult/hard to fill rates still spend time cleaning.
Nope. By regs and federal law, controllers get one day off every seven. Lucky? No. Just that good.