the 48th regulator said:
Your actions are not standard, and are because you have found ways to circumvent the system. You going in to sign leave passes, is because someone from a clerical side is helping you you with your claim. You going in to sign it, is not official, because someone is doing your work for you.
No one is doing the work for me. I have no access to Claim X and I have no clue how to create a claim, it was always my belief that it was the clerk's job. It certainly is the case at the Units I have worked for. When someone asks me "I'm going on leave for the next 2 weeks and I need to have these claims done today, can you come by and sign it" is me doing them a favor.
the 48th regulator said:
That is not a standard, but an acknowledged privilege on both of your parts. Don't make that out to be a standard that you have pushed, and is accepted.
Is there a standard on how one should be dressed while on leave? I have never pushed any standards, just showed up the way I was when I was asked to show up. If I'm walking outside with my spouse and my dog and I receive that call, I will not go home, shave, change then go. I'll go right away. I don't see what's so bad about it. Again, there should be common sense applied.
the 48th regulator said:
Again, stop playing the forward thinking member, and say that you can go in with pajamas and unshaven, when you feel like it, when in actuality someone is doing your work for you, and damn well will not complain about you showing up looking like Sonny Crockett. Your examples are one offs, and in no way reflect a standard that is happening, other that within your circle of work.
I thought that forward thinking/common sense was something good in our military...
No one did my work.
If you consider my circle of work the last 5 units I've been employed at, then I guess that was at my circle of work.
the 48th regulator said:
I call BS on the fact that you would show up at NDHQ dressed like that.
Call BS all you want, I would.
Kat: I tend to make myself appreciated at work by other things than how I look when I'm on leave and I go to work...
The problem is not playing the game. If you can explain 1 benefit for eighter the organization or myself for going home, changing, shaving, going to work, sign the claim, change again and carry on with my day (basically waste 15-30 minutes for no reason), vice going to work, sign the claim, carry on with my day, I'll be glad to play the game. To me, that's common sense. In the mean time, I'll keep doing what I do, and many others do.
Again, I'm not rebel, and saying that of me is not knowing me. I apply common sense to situations, instead of blindly following a "standard". Now, if I was showing up to work on a day off on my own will, to complete something, then yes, I would probably pay a little more attention to what I wear.