Comments on: Real Military Job Breakdown

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:45:21 +0000

Hey! I found a use for all of those old Christmas lights.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:41:04 +0000

Customer Fail!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:02:37 +0000

or the army, i recently filled out a form to wipe my own ass

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:53:44 +0000

What were you, a carrier deck hand? Fighter pilot? SEAL? Something where you could actually get killed?

By: ReX13

ReX13 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:43:46 +0000

Nope. By regs and federal law, controllers get one day off every seven. Lucky? No. Just that good.

By: GreenGlowingMonkey

GreenGlowingMonkey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:53:50 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:11:59 +0000

BSTR.

By: ReX13

ReX13 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:26:25 +0000

Like sucks for the cannon fodder, huh?

Well, someone has to do it.

By: ReX13

ReX13 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:25:16 +0000

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.

By: flamingatheist

flamingatheist — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:58:30 +0000

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?”

By: flamingatheist

flamingatheist — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:50:16 +0000

DING DING DING! This is the correct answer! LMAO!

By: navybtch

navybtch — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:43:01 +0000

Actually, the higher up in rank you get, the more time you spend telling other people to clean…

By: GiGi

GiGi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:40:58 +0000

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.

By: kao

kao — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:39:27 +0000

very funny but not true…not completely at least…i’ve seen it before…

By: kao

kao — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:31:18 +0000

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.

By: KeithTX

KeithTX — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:41:29 +0000

Military cleaning…
If it’s clean, wash it.
If it’s dirty, paint it.

By: GreenGlowingMonkey

GreenGlowingMonkey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:24:47 +0000

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.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:18:39 +0000

REDUNDANT MILITARY JOBS ARE REDUNDANT

.(in reality janitors are usually civvie contractors or just low ranking guys who f’ed up)

By: js

js — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:18:28 +0000

mmm sir sammitch nom nom

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:15:55 +0000

That’s a lot of sir sandwiches there.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:14:37 +0000

HURRY UP! NOW WAIT!

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:12:46 +0000

Someone is in the Air Force!

By: sotru

sotru — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:54:21 +0000

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.

By: SailArmy

SailArmy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:37:43 +0000

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…

By: js

js — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:11:23 +0000

Sir Yes sir. I meant eliminate sir. Sir I apologize for misspelling a word sir. Sir thank you for correcting me sir.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:42:06 +0000

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.

By: mr_interpreter

mr_interpreter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:49:30 +0000

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…

By: Baker6669

Baker6669 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:49:15 +0000

Sry but women in the military don’t do a whole lot there to busy about not breaking a nail

By: GreenGlowingMonkey

GreenGlowingMonkey — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:26:35 +0000

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…

By: Siegfried

Siegfried — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:52:47 +0000

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.

By: jk

jk — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:19:46 +0000

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’.

By: jk

jk — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:06:52 +0000

you’re repeating yourself

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:00:51 +0000

What if you’re a janitor in the military?

By: ieldanth

ieldanth — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:53:30 +0000

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…

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:52:53 +0000

Actually, I rescind that comment. There’s probably somebody in the military that does their job.

By: ieldanth

ieldanth — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:50:52 +0000

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.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:49:32 +0000

Lame. I’m sure she does. Probably cleaning. Like what I and everyone else I knew hod to do.

By: Ashley Taylor

Ashley Taylor — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:55:43 +0000

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.

By: Miss Lace

Miss Lace — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:31:17 +0000

Wow, I’ve not heard it called that before.

Yea, it’s true, we do time together if we work together etc.

By: jersey girl

jersey girl — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:18:49 +0000

I NEED A DETAIL!

By: GreenGlowingMonkey

GreenGlowingMonkey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:22:48 +0000

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.

By: Wait...what?

Wait...what? — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:29:52 +0000

Is that why they don’t like me at Walmart?

By: The Shaggy Marlin

The Shaggy Marlin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:34:46 +0000

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.

By: ieldanth

ieldanth — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:10:30 +0000

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

By: ieldanth

ieldanth — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:06:30 +0000

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.

By: DrSolar

DrSolar — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:38:24 +0000

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?

By: js

js — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:17:55 +0000

Goes along with my idea to illuminate the majority of the military. Work more efficiently = need less people.

By: Siegfried

Siegfried — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:32:05 +0000

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.

By: Band

Band — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:30:22 +0000

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.

By: Why not?

Why not? — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:19:17 +0000

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…