Salty screws up - corrections and apologies.

Salty is running WELL behind the curve today but when Salty makes an error, Salty admits it, corrects it as soon as possible and moves on. Some things can wait, this needs to be addressed.

I have finally received two rational responses, one of them most interested in dealing with the problem and the other trying to deal with it and I am still sorting that one out.

I made an error of assumption based on the following and with some confusion on my part.

In checking before I posted this, I find why I am confused thus causing my error:

vADM George "Boomer" Sandel
CNO, vUSN

and

F-David Waffler VCNO

Salty has become confused with CNO and vCNO and VCNO and vVCNO.

I think this means that the virtual CNO is George and the virtual VICE CNO is David.

At any rate, please mentally correct any "vcno"s that you see to read "Virtual CNO" not to be read as "VICE CNO". Too many or not enough or not consistant little "v"s :-).

Apologies for unintentionally casting David as one of the offending parties, he is not. He has made impressive effort at actually dealing with the problem and opening dialog and communications in a highly professional manner and is in NO WAY at fault.

My sincerest personal apology to David.

Of further interest, the two emails in the past 24 hours have given me more actual information than I have had all together. Certainly a long way from being expected to know everything and respond in the desired form with no actual factual information.

What may well be the issue is that Flag Staff is suffering from people who made commitments and are not honoring them thus putting undue and excess strain on people who are actually trying to do the job to the best of their abilities with no support.

In the interest of fairness, both the outrages by George and likely Zane as well (I am not publishing that fisking at this point) may have been brought on by actually caring but running at the edge or into burnout trying.

Salty knows too damn well the effects of too many demands and lack of support. Salty is also aware how burnout affects performance of even the best of people (from way too much unpleasant experience in that department).

If this is indeed the case, then Salty has more apologies to issue, but we will be sure before we issue them.

Taking David at his word, if there are people failing to do their jobs and screwing other people over in the process, I call for a keelhauling of each and every one of them. I formally request to be the one pulling on the lines, I can guarantee that I will make the experience everything they never want it to be and will extract full retribution for their crimes (yes, IMO if not in law it is criminal behavior).

To fail to honor ones commitments is about as low as it gets and be it known that Salty is highly offended by that kind of slimeball, they drag everyone down and make an organization look really bad. There is no lower form of life than those that screw their shipmates.

What is really sad about this is that these people do not have to dishonor themselves and rape their shipmates by either not making commitments they have no intention nor ability to keep (real or imagined) in the first place or by having a backup / backup plan in place if they can't fullfill thier commitments. Worst case have the integrity to formally resign so the people who have to pick up the slack can look for a replacement who can and will do the job and don't have to stand around waiting for something that will never come and then have to burn themselves out trying to make up for these shitwits. People holding on to "important positions" just to have an "important position" should be punished as horribly as possible.

There is a special place in hell for those who screw their shipmates.

As I told David, VUSN Watch is NOT here just to show the seamy sides of VUSN. When comms fail or there are flies in the ointment and caring and committed people have no place else to go, you bet we will expose the cockroaches to the light. By the same token positive events and occurances will receive the very same attention. We are not the lamestream media with an agenda to make the military (virtual or real) look bad just for the sake of a destructive agenda.

More to follow.

Salty out.