Wintery Mix of Rage and Anger

Sooo I have to change it up today with alittle ranting. I cant help it! There was so much stupidity I just want to start handing out helmets. Almost like a helmet award. Ding fries are done!

So as most of you know we had a wonderful white Christmas. First time it snowed here for the season and there was alot. So me and my wife decided to go bowling sat night. The only real good place to go thats close, is base. The main roads are in pretty good conditions so we brave it because well who doesnt love to handle balls. So we roll through the gate and it says caution hazardous roads. Coming from Dover the minute any snow was present, they had the salt and plows ready to roll. Well they had maybe plowed the base once if that. Everything was caked in snow and ice. So were driving down the main road (Just about every base has one main road, unless your at a super huge base)and I'm starting to get alittle annoyed because nothing, and I mean nothing, is plowed. But than to my surprise we pass the wing building where everyone on base is centered(aka wing king). Guess where the plows were? Yea they were plowing a building that was totally vacant. And that was going to be vacant. I was pissed. And no I wasnt pissed because the bowling alley wasnt plowed I was mad because what about the shoppette, community center, movie theater, and all the other things that familys can do,if it was plowed. Mind you the family's that live on base, if they wanted to go and see a movie they would have to drag there kids through all this. All so a vacant building can be plowed. Is this actually part of the snow plan or was this for a medal worthy endeavour. Heres the kicker to, I had to go to the education center Monday. They were plowing the last little bit off the main road. But the back roads to the education center there were people stuck in the snow and everything was iced. Soo yea.
Heres my other complaint. The finance office. Now heres the thing. I respect them they have a pretty important job. Typing can get pretty tricky, all those words and numbers. Especially reading, one of the hardest things of all in life. Well for starters there "Working hours" are 9-3 all holidays,down days, and weekends off. Now I know they prob have meetings in the morning and maybe afternoon and they probably work more than that. Im not that naive. By now your probably going "This isnt so bad!" Whats there to complain about? Well think about this, what about all the midshift workers...now they have to stay up till 9 just to get anything finance related taken care of. So that cuts into there time. And what about wait time? Well on one base there has to be alot of finance personell to service everybody, and there is a fair amount of civilians to. So as a example I went there just today. Now there was atleast 2 civilians and 8 GI's. Well I was lucky that I was one of the first people in this morning. There was 6 other people waiting with me. Well take a guess of how many people were waiting on us customers. Yea you guessed 1 person. But in everybody else's defense it was the first day back to work. And they had to tell jokes, and dance, and surf craigslist. I'm not making this up either. Ill even share alittle of there magicians code with you on how they disappear. Theres 2 computers on the counter. Instead of using those to help you, they will go back to there cubical with your Id and say they have to get on to there system to check. Well heres the kicker. For most of them checking there system is finishing up a email of reading there email. Or chatting with there friends. Until they either finish what there original purpose was, or notice that you can see them and than realize they should probably come back to the customer.
So Im sorry for the rant. I had to share this with yall. It just irritates me to no end. Because we invest all this money and resources into something that is so horribly flawed. My last base had to deal with far more people and they had it down to a science. I blame alot of this on complacency, there leadership, and the fact of just not really caring. Sorry about not getting into the good parts of my life today. But this has been building up and I had to share it. Im sure alot of you will read this and transfer jobs to finance. I dont blame you. There might be a hint of jealousy, but more so its that if I just felt to slack off and not care there could be millions of dollars of damage, not a bunch of people pissed off that you screwed up there pay. Which as this blogger has heard happens often.