Have you been surprised by your EPR rating, and if so, how did you respond?

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:41:22 -0500

Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 20 at 2016 6:44 PM

TSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:44:23 -0500

I haven't seen my EPR yet but I know where I fall within the "rack and stack" which is surprising higher than I expected. Also I'm not surprise about my rating since I'm a new TSgt, but what I am surprised about within the new system is how many 4s and 5s are based on unit size and the CC's decision to give or deny giving a higher than 3 rating to anyone.

Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 20 at 2016 6:50 PM

TSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:50:45 -0500

I'm stationed at Patrick AFB and it is highly competitive here. I'm 5 of 17 promotion eligible TSgts in the squadron. I earned a AFCM, 27 credits and completed my bachelors. Endless amounts of community and base envolvement. I lacked awards this year. As an NCOIC I put one of my several SSgts in for awards all the time and now it's biting me on the butt because the other TSgt won an award and is instantly better in all aspects of the "whole person concept" then me.

Still PAFB is a paradise, and it a good place to catapult your career.

Sadly it's becoming competitive and now many of us have to become inherently selfish to succeed.

Response by TSgt Gwen Walcott made Jan 20 at 2016 11:05 PM

TSgt Gwen Walcott — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:05:16 -0500

Like a good little trooper and pressed on.

And the military can't hold a stick to the politics of civilian EPRs. You work only for the benefit of your boss and his "good-ole-boys" and not YOUR actual accomplishments or efforts.
Learn to accept and deal with "The Shaft"