Posted on Apr 6, 2015
What's your funniest "The Military Just Came Out Of Me" moment in the workplace?
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This happened when I was in the Military, I was acting 1SG when the 1SG was attending school. I put a SP4 on the duty Roster, I had a GS12 call me and tell me that he was in PAO and was exempt, I told her to have the NCO in charge of him call me, as I was not going to discuss Army issues with a civilian. she told the Captain at the PAO, that I told her I hated civilians. He came storming in my office shouting, I told him to leave my office and to enter properly as an Officer. He came in, and told me that the GS12 said I hated civilians, I told him that was impossible, I married one and had 4 tiny ones living in my house, He left laughing
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lady came into my civilian job to perform a urine drug screen for employment. Apparently, I broke the instructions down so barney style, she actually complained to my lab boss that i should not talk to her like she is in the military
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SFC Christopher Taggart
I have to say the same...I've been accused of being "condescending," as I was asked by the client, to instruct how a piece of office equipment worked to their employees, when I was a service technician for office equipment.
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PO1 Ricky Allen, while it wasn't at a civilian workplace, I'll share an event that happened in New Orleans, at a Bingo Hall! I hit the Bingo for a $500 pot and yelled BINGO so loud that it scared the u-know-what out of some of those around us, the yell knocked the glasses off one guy and one woman about dove under the table! It got very quiet and then everyone burst out laughing!
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Sgt Dan Catlin
You Sgt Maj's, by the time you hit that exalted rank have developed a hefty set of windbags! While stationed at Iwakuni we had a Sgt Maj we called "Old Leatherlungs!" I was ground support for the Air-wing, so a lot of Marines were a bit slack on their regulations. You'd hear Old Leatherlungs bellow "GET your Haaaands out of your pockETtttsssss!" And people 3 blocks away were jerking their heads up, looking around as they 'got their hands out of their pockets' very rapidly!
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LTJG Jeb Raitt
Sgt Dan Catlin - There was a retired Marine LtCol in one of the companies I worked for who had no inside voice. He always sounded like he was on a drill field.
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