Whoa. I thought that “Timed Out” meant the post didn’t go through.
But at least I’ve demonstrated how determined I can be.
Also, it’s like free advertising for my new book, “How A Dumb-Ass Can Boost His Post Count”.
Lucretia set me straight. I’m cool.
OK.
I’m a generally respectful person. I don’t go out of my way to offend anyone. I was just having a very bad day that day.
I talked it over with my supervisor over a beer this afternoon, and he made it abundantly clear to me that I was wrong. I knew that already, so it wasn’t a big deal.
My actions were inexcusable. For that I apologized.
And as far as the Air Force goes, I CAN handle anything that comes my way. I have no problem with discipline, or the administration thereof.
Don’t you think perhaps that you guys are maybe overreacting to this incident? It happened, it’s over, and it’s settled. I feel bad about it and the apologies have been issued.
Why is it that when anyone else relates something like this they don’t get panned nearly as bad as I am right now? Like none of you have ever done anything like this before. I had a moment that I felt like relating and getting off my chest, and I’m getting absolutely torn apart over it. That saddens me greatly. I don’t think I can say whatever I want with impunity, but I didn’t say anything that hasn’t already been said before. I now regret ever having said anything, now that I know what the reaction has been.
And Bluesman, I get what you’re saying. I don’t consider myself to be a liability. I think I’m a nice guy, and a hard worker. I just lost my temper, that’s all. I will work very hard to make myself an asset to your Air Force.
Outstanding, Doors, that’s what we want from you when you’re in: your best effort.
I think you can do it, too, and I’ll help you. So will my NCO brothers and sisters.
Once you’re in, give your best, take only what you earn, and I look forward to welcoming you into the AF family.
THIS IS A HIJACK! NOBODY MOVE!
As an aside, I’ve got to share this: one of my airmen is graduating from Airman Leadership School in two weeks. He’s already tested for Staff Sergeant, and made it. The only thing left to do before he can become a non-commissioned officer is to finish this course. On May 11, he pins on his new stripes.
This is my first airman to be promoted to the NCO ranks. I am more excited for him than when I pinned on Staff myself. I get immense pleasure and take enormous pride seeing my people succeed, and this is a **BIG DEAL[/b}.
I’ve never seen it done before, but I think I’ll mark the occassion by giving him something - a DayRunner organizer would be appropriate. I want him to know that he just went from an “I’m just an airman”-kind-of-guy, to a “I’ll take care of it, Sergeant Bluesman”-kind-of-professional.
I hope Doors is okay with me bringing it to the board, but I would just like to say that he sent me an e-mail apologizing for the way he came off in this and other threads. I really get the impression that yes, he did have a bad day and that he really is a nice guy.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that he really did learn from his blow up at work and that it helped him grow as a person.
Hey, look how well Tim turned out. 
I honestly don’t think you got “torn apart” any worse than anyone else has. You were in the wrong in how you handled the situation and got called on it, that’s all. It looks like you’ve seen where you were wrong and have decided to make an effort not to let the same thing happen again, and I commend you for that.
And Bluesman? Have you signed up for the remedial course on multiposting and vB code yet?
Awright, my bad. But the “Timed Out” thang means I can’t preview, so ya gets what ya gets.
Ooh! Ooh! I wanna know! I wanna know!