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I just had the most rotten news, and most of this will be unintelligible to someone not in the military, but I have to vent. I start clearing this installation on the 17th of September, and I was thinking it was all downhill from here -- get the new soldiers trained up on what I do, get my in-boxes emptied, get my personal stuff together, and get out of here. Well, some genius (I hope my company commander never reads this) has decided to move the two NCOs out of here and move in one from another platoon on the first of September, which in itself is a bad idea if you ask me, considering that they both have to ask me questions about our job in here occasionally, not because they're stupid, but because I've been in this section for over two years and I know how to do everything... but what REALLY sucks is that this NCO that is moving in here is one of those types who is always right and thinks she's the shit and pulls rank constantly and is just generally impossible to work with. She and I have never gotten along from day one, mostly because I find it extremely difficult to take shit off of people who are stupider than I am, even though that's pretty much a given in an Army where you can have an NCO or an officer who is several years younger than you and has less education, less life experience, and less common sense. And lest you all think I'm sounding like some conceited know-it-all with an overinflated sense of importance, let me tell you what my current NCO did when I was in the hospital 24 hours after giving birth to my daughter. He came up with a stuffed animal and some peppermints, told me congratulations, and then pulled out a stack of statistics from the office that were due that week and asked me about them. Statistics are the NCOs job, and he had been in the office for months at that point, so it's not like he hadn't had a chance to pick this up. He's just an idiot, quite frankly, and we barely tolerate each other, but at least he has the sense to leave me alone because he knows I know more about this job than he does. But this new NCO is WORSE and I have to somehow keep it all in check and stay out of trouble with her until I leave, which is NOT going to be easy to do. I can forgive an NCO for visiting me in the hospital right after giving birth while I'm in the midst of leaking milk and blood and sweat, because he honestly was confused and preferred to ask rather than screw everything up, but this new NCO would rather tell you what to do. She LOVES being a sergeant, because she LOVES telling people what to do. I don't NEED anybody to tell me what to do, and this is going to be a huge conflict. I'll stop whining now.
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