Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:09:02 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 08:53 PM 04/02/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>He threatened me with a letter of reprimand for something that he IMAGINED
>that I had done.  I went to the ADC and was informed that he didn't need
>any evidence.  What had I done?  I rested my forehead on my hand while I
>proofread a report.  I wasn't even thinking about him.  He decided that was
>a gesture of disrespect.  Not because of the fact that I went back to work
>when I realized that the conversation didn't involve me, but because I
>rested my head on my hand when I went back to work.  And if I had tried to
>tell him to shove it... Well, I doubt that I'd still be in Leavenworth.
>
>In the civilian world, if I had a boss like that I could tell him he was an
>*ssh*le and threaten to walk.  One of three things would happen; 1) he'd
>fire me; 2) he'd ignore me and I'd walk; or 3) a miracle, and he'd get
>better.  Now admittedly, 3 is highly unlikely, but I'd still have the
>freedom to leaving.
>
>As it is, I was very lucky that situation was temporary.
>
>699.
>
>Candy
>
>Get real, kid.  All you needed to do is say,"Fine.  Court-martial me."
>
>He would have backed down faster than a snake can slither.  Contrary to
>popular (enlisted) opinnion, and I were one, officers are not COMPLETE
>fools.
>

Letter of Reprimand, not Article 15.  If he had threatened me with an
Article 15, I'd have been able to fight it.

Candy