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I am a 32 year old female and currently live in Berlin. I have been working with an Army recruiter for the past month out of Stuttgart (also made a trip down to K-town). My ASVAB is good (97 AFQT and 147 GT). My DLAB is good (145) and I have a bachelors degree. I want to be a Cryptologic Linguist, but willing to look at other jobs as long as it’s not FA or ADA (I’m from Lawton and don’t want to be stuck there). I don’t want to be an officer. Admittedly, the recruiter I have been working with says that they know almost nothing about MI. There are only 3 recruiters in the office and very few in country. I know their quota is low.
I keep getting asked to bring down more paperwork. He scheduled the physical for yet another day that I wasn’t already in town and I have a second physical in two weeks. In the last month, I have made 6 trips to Stuttgart from Berlin. It’s almost 5 hours each way by train and 150€ for the train ticket each time I go. Each time, he says he forgets that I am not living in Stuttgart and wants me there at 0900. That means the 0400 train or an extra night in Stuttgart that I don’t want to pay for. I prefer not walking around Berlin Hbf at 0400 by myself.
Is there a good way to approach the situation and ask him to schedule everything I need done on one or two back-to-back days? Or at least to make me a list of ALL the paperwork he needs? Do I write out a list of all my questions so he can get the correct answers? Or do let him know that I just don’t want to do it anymore and go talk to the Air Force across the street?
I keep getting asked to bring down more paperwork. He scheduled the physical for yet another day that I wasn’t already in town and I have a second physical in two weeks. In the last month, I have made 6 trips to Stuttgart from Berlin. It’s almost 5 hours each way by train and 150€ for the train ticket each time I go. Each time, he says he forgets that I am not living in Stuttgart and wants me there at 0900. That means the 0400 train or an extra night in Stuttgart that I don’t want to pay for. I prefer not walking around Berlin Hbf at 0400 by myself.
Is there a good way to approach the situation and ask him to schedule everything I need done on one or two back-to-back days? Or at least to make me a list of ALL the paperwork he needs? Do I write out a list of all my questions so he can get the correct answers? Or do let him know that I just don’t want to do it anymore and go talk to the Air Force across the street?
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Speak directly to the Station Commander and express your issues and struggles the Recruiter is putting you through. Hard to believe that the Recruiter "forgets" that you live in Berlin and not Stuttgart.
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Your first step should be to tactfully contact the OIC or NCOIC of the Stuttgart recruiting station to see if your recruiter's shoddiness can be addressed by the proverbial chain of command (or is endemic to that station).
If that doesn't appear likely to resolve things, you might also try reaching out to the recruiting station at Graf. Given your location in Berlin, asking to work with a more geographically accessible recruiter should be a reasonable request without having to mention job-performance issues -- the only reason that USAREC's "Find a Recruiter" pointed you to the recruiting stations on the far side of Germany is that it appears to select based on ZIP code numerical proximity (which works reasonably well in the U.S., but not with APO ZIP codes).
If that doesn't appear likely to resolve things, you might also try reaching out to the recruiting station at Graf. Given your location in Berlin, asking to work with a more geographically accessible recruiter should be a reasonable request without having to mention job-performance issues -- the only reason that USAREC's "Find a Recruiter" pointed you to the recruiting stations on the far side of Germany is that it appears to select based on ZIP code numerical proximity (which works reasonably well in the U.S., but not with APO ZIP codes).
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Kelly High
It’s definitely a trek down there and back several times a month. Grafenwör is a lot closer. I didn’t even think about that!
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