Ok I may repeat some stuff since its been months since part 1.
So my first C.P.I.C MJ was a polarising person. He likes to push the work onto us (especially the admin guys since they were considered 'under him') but at the same time 'protected' us? He gives reasonable welfare too as he himself wants to go home. (NAISUUU) A common sight is him wearing sandals in the office in the afternoon as he gets ready to go home if things slow down. That can only mean one thing, as when the cats goes away the mice comes out to play. Without him, everyone can do what they like as he is like the disciplinary master around. Fortunately, he doesn't pick on me, as he is usually monitors the non CE stores. I have been occasionally spooked by him coming into my store sometimes however. When he does his B.O,S duty he always asks for blankets and bedsheets sent to the guardroom and the poor C,O,S (me once or twice) has to bring it over. The pros of being the one in charge of logistics eh? I still remember one night when he asked me to buy a Filet O Fish and a sundae for him before booking in when he's on duty. Guess he also thinks our camp food is garbage. He left before the 2nd LAB to hand the reins over to SF, a rather interesting person.
SF is a Malay and hangs around with the other Malay people in the branch. He likes to play with people a lot and likes to bully some vulnerable people, giving us a good show. A greenhorn, he submits to his superiors too easily. Anything S.4 asks him to do, he'll do it. Anything R.Q says, it's the law. This made the admin guys rage as everything accepted was not done by him, but guess who? This shows the lopsided way of this organisation. I however feel like this is not going to be the last time I see this, pretty sure that that's how the working world is.
SF made me feel like he was chummy with the men, but if you know me as a person I am very cautious about crossing the line between friends and superiors. I have never added any superior on social media until I have graduated/left such places. It's all fun and games when you do the right things but step on his toes and things won't be so great after that. Unnecessary risks, why take them? If my superior add me, I'm screwed though. It's not nice walking on eggshells, as I (allow me to sidetrack) recently discovered that I may have anxiety in the form of acid reflux and irritable bowel syndrome. Never actually thought about such things (huh why are you nervous over driving lessons? Just don't be nervous LMFAO) before but after a doctor said this possibility I actually think it might be possible. If that was the case, maybe I would've been able to argue a case for lower PES, as one of my friends K was PES C and stayed out for anxiety. Is it that simple though? Pretty sure there's no way of certifying anxiety, do I have to cut my stomach open and show the acid tank inside? :thinking:
Back on the topic, SF acted more like a sergeant than MJ ever did. He stayed in (said he had some family problems) and checked our bunks every night, coming over to talk to us. This meant that booking in late will be a problem, fortunately this only happened to me once lul 2scared. This resulted in more eggshell walking and more invasion of privacy (privacy in 2k18 LOL) but I guess it was tolerable. Since I wasn't Malay he didn't talk to me much. But, he definitely was more involved in my store than MJ. He always asked every store IC to report on their status of work for every fall in and as my store is a very quiet one I always struggle to tell him what's going on because I cannot say "50% in progress on finding more lewd pictures of my waifu online" or "Grinding on FGO because the event is out and I can't be arsed". Other than that, I feel like overall he and MJ were around the same level, in that I asked admin guys YD and D to compare and they couldn't decide who was worse.
Onto the R*Q TBL. She was The One. I live or die because of her. 1WO isn't actually higher than an officer rank but since she old and spent ?? years in the army basically the branch is hers. But for good reason, she worked the hardest out of the commanders. That comes to the biggest point, guess where the work ends up to?
For fuck's sake.
I manually typed in the serial number for every single 1TPT item for the 2nd LAB. It took me like 6 hours. Why me? Cause I was deemed the most free but still capable person in the branch. ( actually not wrong, but still) It turns out she has a shit load of things to do, alright understandable considering she has the most pay around here, but does that justify the work being pushed down onto $560 a month little boys? Come on, that's not part of my job scope. In fact, everyone did work out of their job scope around here. Also known as 'sai kang', it was a mainstay and I hated it. We cleaned cigarettes that other people threw onto rocks near the MPH. We cleared rubbish bins for hours (I left halfway lol can't be arsed) because the COA came. Although I know that this will happen, as usual, for any job, it's a ridiculous and demoralising thing to do. Because at the end of the day when you reflect on what you have done, it's pretty sad to remember that you did this during your mandatory 2 years of 'service' to the country. Where women don't have to, where foreigners don't have to. Oh no, they have more important things to do I guess. Hey you, Singaporean male, you look like you have nothing better to do, here's a rifle, go out there and defend this country, because it's 'your country'. The only thing that consoled me was that I was definitely much luckier than others who had to go outfield and do much more physical work, while I do meaningless work.
Anyway, TBL was the last obstacle when you try to apply for offs and leaves. Offs are, like what they always say 'a privilege' but they are a source of unhappiness that some complain of because the non CE staff think that the CE staff gets more of, which is true but can't be helped because I'm not the one deciding it. In fact, I was pissed because I fought tooth and nail to get measly offs before my ORD due to TBL having moodswings and giving me the short end of the stick mostly cause she thinks I performed badly, while in reality I was given work I am not trained to do, cough YT3 YT5 G219 BASICALLY EVERY THING IN THE ES WHY AM I DOING IT cough. No prior knowledge about the ES, all I know is a step by step way that she does it, with little explanation on what's going on. A person with > 0 brain cells would realise that since I'm not formally trained I would make mistakes. So from then on I crafted my own Dummy's guide to the ES which I passed on after I ORD, sadly no one used it xd. This resulted in me having a few scoldings here and there, which got me into a less desirable relationship with her. I started to realise, there's no point in being chummy with any of the commanders. I could realise that some people around me did suck up to them, but didn't feel the need to. Was this a good thing or not? It remains to be seen. Maybe I'll just give up and suck on my bosses toes in the future , or get my toes sucked instead. Hmm, that's kinky. TBL did treat me fairly other than work wise, she always played by the rule book when it comes to LAB and thus gave me more work. She doesn't really care about those regimental things, but basically anything that can get her screwed, she will screw us.
Let's talk a bit about offs and leaves. We have 14 days of leave every year, and offs is entirely up to commanders. I didn't use my leave at all until the end of the year because I am cautious and always save for emergencies, ending in me spending it all during November and December. Regarding the offs, it was a mess. Everyone thought they deserved offs, and when that happened no one got offs. The armskote, I felt, got more offs than they deserved to, but I never make such things public. Was it more than other companies, I will never know. But it was common to suck up for welfare. Maybe I should've. My skin didn't feel thick enough then.
To round it off, the Q^M is actually supposed to be the head of the branch, I guess. Since it's named after him. LA was a nice guy... if you were on his good side. As usual, I walked on eggshells and tried to maintain a working relationship. He was almost never in office unless there's an event or LAB, which suited me perfectly. When he's here, he is sometimes using his phone at his desk, sometimes in the signal store using his phone or eating McDonalds, or at the side talking to the more experienced guys. On one hand, he doesn't give much work. On the other hand, he doesn't do much either. As a conclusion of all these 3 personalities, I really struggle to formulate an opinion on how I feel about them. I have no idea whether to like or hate them. Enough about them.
It's hard to put a timeline to my stay, but things usually came up sporadically, events came by and the most important things were the 2 LAB that I went through, 1st was with D1 and 2nd was me in charge. My memory of them might be lost but it's roughly the same shit, different day. Cleaning up the store, waking up at 6am for range to issue body armour, staying till 8pm to receive it, checking every damn document before LAB, eating bad cookhouse food, finding little joys in the occasional good food, the extremely cold temperatures when it was raining at night, insects in my bunk, playing FGO and reading 4chan posts before I sleep. I think I just summarised my year there.
If you thought the people I already mentioned are already colourful, you are wrong. I am going to describe a few people that made me realise there is definitely a person of every kind.
Enter W, a really, dare I say it, weird individual. You think you're weird, this guy is off the charts. He is malay but doesn't act like one, is usually quiet but I'm pretty sure he's gay for me. Either that or he likes to act like he's gay. Let me remind you a few things: I do not have anything against gays, I'm in fact pro-gay marriage, but I'm straight and you don't force yourself on someone. Also, I'm pretty sure gays do not need to serve the army, how do they verify this though? :thinking:
This guy calls me nii-chan. If you're not a weeb, not a man of culture, let me translate it for you. It means older brother. He calls me this regularly, likes to touch my hand, likes to meow also. He hugged me from the back before and he smells because he's the IC of the Tech Store (fuel, paint, those kind of stuff) and from what I observe, might not bathe regularly.
Can you handle being around such a person? For me, I did not complain to any of my superiors about him, because I can feel that he's a good person, he is not a cunt and will not cross my boundaries (even though he's pushing it). I however made a mental note that any closer, kisses or physical contact when I'm sleeping (he sat on my bed and stared at me at 6am when he was living in my bunk) and I'm going to report him straightaway.
This guy has (should I be sad by this or) some similar interests to me, namely anime and visiting the cesspool known as 4chan and when I thought I was perverted enough, this guy one upped me by being a furry as well.
Other than me constantly monitoring whether he brushes or bathes, (honestly I still don't know whether he does it, he could've brought his towel/toothbrush and not do it) it's easily to identify him. He struts around in a red bathrobe after working hours and likes to sleep very early, and wake up very early. He was known to sleep in a jungle hat and long 4 before, and off the lights at early timings like 8pm. Thankfully, he stopped doing that when he moved into my bunk but still complains at times. How did he survive before entering NS? He sent me a photo in the past when he was in his room and it was completely dark. Very interesting individual.
You thought this guy was bad enough? M was a guy that became viral on the Internet because he picked his nose on the MRT. Following a Facebook post of that incident, I found a comment posted by someone saying there's a gay porn video of him. I looked because I was curious and it was true. He was sucking off someone.
This guy was in the same unit as me.
Q*M branch was a place unwanted people was sent. Good people are first taken by S1, then S4 and S3, then thrown to us. Thus, weird people were everywhere. However, this guy really takes the cake. M was resigned to shredding paper by the commanders because he was so unreliable and zany that they didn't dare give him important duties. However, he went to the MO and got an excuse for shredding paper. This guy was targeted by the commanders through various methods because he's useless and kengs, and made me feel like I was near a time bomb. One time, he was asked to surrender everything (he likes to slack and use his phone while shredding paper) and he surrendered a banana. Nobody knew how to handle him, MJ was driven to his wits end. I avoided him like the plague but unluckily I was the one who had to deal with him first as he was understudying me for COS.
Initially, I kept an open mind and tried to be impartial and not judge people before even knowing them. I'm not the type to shun people before knowing how they are. M seemed to be pretty normal, he was talking to me about random things like photography. But he gave off mixed signals, I really don't know whether he's dumb or smart. Maybe it's all an act, to keng and have less work to do. Maybe he's 3000 IQ and playing 8D underground plutonium hopscotch while we were still sucking off our mum's tits. I will never know. He got relegated to being stuck at the guardhouse during office hours because R,Q pushed him to CSM and he had to deal with the bastard.
I always wondered, what if the guy replacing me is also one of those weird cunts like above? Surely not?
He was.
Z seems like a nice Malay guy. Like W, quiet and unassuming. I taught him everything, I asked him clearly if he understood, he said yes.
He couldn't even write a 1211.
He made me worry so much before I ORD. I had to pass it to the Signal 2IC K, one of my buddies, because LAB was coming and R.Q wanted someone experienced to do it first. So while my name was still officially IC, I was nervous every time there was range. This guy doesn't know how to handle situations. He, here it comes, had panic attacks when there was rifles in the room.
Let me get that straight. This is the army. Look everywhere around you and the SAR21 will be there. How am I supposed to help you with that?
He couldn't issue body armour by himself. Despite many reminders, he gave 1 more soft plate and I had to link up with the conducting myself, my body trembling because I was going to ORD and I couldn't let some cunt and his inability to issue simple objects stop me.
This was after a clear demonstration, me waking up at 6am with him, to show him how its done. Write a 1211, let them sign it, issue the correct number of body armour. When it's returned, count it.
Maybe it was an honest mistake, but I couldn't allow it.
After I ORDed, I heard that he caused more trouble and was sent to the Tech store, swapping with W. What a twist of events. Luckily I'm not the IC any more. Poor K.
The rest of the guys are a normal bunch. We have R, the guy who introduced me to FGO and anime again because he watches anime in his Signal Store (he's the IC) and invites me to watch with him. Rich guy who spends on in game currency. God of otakus, likes to show off but he's nice. His assistant is K, anxiety guy who I met accidentally with his GF at Bishan Park walking their dog which he adopted because he found an abandoned puppy during NDP preparations. He seems the most genuine out of all the people here.
DA was a newcomer, assistant to YD at the admin side. Also from AJC, but I never saw him before and vice versa. Follows football and plays Fifa/PES with me during admin time. Plays League also and we banter a lot. B and S were good friends who came together, B liked to take Grab and hates public transport, shuns me because I hate Grab and likes public transport. S was like a manchild honestly, and I figure he hates me but I pretend to not notice. However, it's all good generally. YD the Chinaman ORDed in January and was ironically the youngest around, but yet the most experienced. Horny bastard, likes to show off also. Has aspirations of being a doctor but doesn't seem like the type.
Is that enough? I spent 2 hours for this. Have fun.
I'll talk more about my experiences, if I can even remember them.
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