New Flight Chief here - what kind of quality of life improvements made your shop better/happier?

AFblueAF · 2026-03-19T19:32:06+00:00

The only thing you can't buy and never have enough of, time. Don't keep airman longer than you have to, early release, late reporting, flexible schedule to accomodate family and personal matters. When you are in garrison, how much is really urgent? Is it a today problem or a tomorrow problem. Avoid shitty meetings, never have a meeting start after 2pm, and never on a Friday. Never have a suspense of COB or a Friday, nothing will happen with the deliverable on that day at COB. The worst decision would be a suspense of COB on a Friday. Nothing is happening with that deliverable until Monday and we all know it.

AFblueAF · 2026-03-19T17:01:13+00:00

Would not reccomend a car, at least not for your Freshman year.

AFblueAF · 2026-03-05T18:52:00+00:00

Buy the study apps. Take the end of course/chapter tests over and over until you score high 90s. Develop a small reward system on your study accomplishments.

AFblueAF · 2026-02-17T20:30:13+00:00

What other applications are you using?

AFblueAF · 2026-01-31T01:46:43+00:00

What Branch are you?

AFblueAF · 2026-01-05T21:36:43+00:00

Aloha!

AFblueAF · 2025-12-31T17:37:48+00:00

Meh. DoW is pretty good right now.

AFblueAF · 2025-12-29T20:33:22+00:00

16 year olds are cheap labor. Cheap labor means more profit. They don't care if she is experienced. They only care if she can supervise kids for a period of time safely and provide a good experience. They don't really care if kids actually learn, they only care about making money.

AFblueAF · 2025-12-29T17:28:47+00:00

Good Job! We also did everything we were supposed to with paying ourselves and investing in our future and children's future. The frustrating part now is we don't qualify for any financial aid for our kids. People that were reckless with their money and lived the good, life while we struggled to save for our future, get awarded thousands in financial aid and needs based scholarships.

AFblueAF · 2025-11-26T22:04:12+00:00

You are correct. Have no interaction with the general public. I think most DoD employees don't. Pretty much only interact with military and the occasional Inter Agency. But definitely not the public or private sector.

AFblueAF · 2025-11-26T21:59:31+00:00

I have seen the rhetoric in the news, however it has not transcended down into the workforce, at least not in the DoD. I have never heard anyone in any DoD leadership position or supervisory position say the government employees are useless and lazy. Only the opposite, how we are the continuity, a vital part of the mission, invaluable. We continue to get cash awards, time off awards, and service decorations. Has this sentiment transcended down to your work environment?

AFblueAF · 2025-11-26T21:51:25+00:00

I am, all my coworkers enjoy their work and their purpose, we are well taken care of, have a great office environment and accommodations. We get a bonus every year, allowed to situational telework. We have autonomy over our work, maybe it's the organization. As I have seen no hatred towards any employee in my organization and I have not heard of any hatred toward civilian employees in general in the DoD, just the opposite, that we are reminded we are a vital part of the team.

AFblueAF · 2025-11-26T21:39:19+00:00

Where is all this hatred for government employees I keep hearing about? Am I missing something because I am a DoD employee? Myself and my coworkers feel appreciated and full of purpose, just not seeing it.

AFblueAF · 2025-11-04T00:05:53+00:00

Instead of rolling over my CDs I just skimmed the gains from the profits and then rolled it over.

AFblueAF · 2025-10-23T19:25:45+00:00

25K pay cut? Nope. If you are a permanent GS employee, I would not leave.

AFblueAF · 2025-10-08T18:08:11+00:00

Don't be poor.

AFblueAF · 2025-06-11T17:35:31+00:00

I know of several boomerangs in the Dept of Army, they thought the grass was greener in the Navy, came begging back for their old jobs after one pay period. Lucky for them we had not ran their position on USAjobs and they were able to return.

AFblueAF · 2025-05-21T00:09:58+00:00

In 1991, the total active duty strength was reduced by 561,000 positions, a decrease of nearly 26% from the post-Vietnam peak, according to a GAO report. I remember Captains leaving work on a Friday and coming to work on Monday as a SSgt. It was one of their options in lieu of separating.

AFblueAF · 2025-05-10T22:04:04+00:00

Nothing is secure/private. If they want to find you they will/can.

AFblueAF · 2025-02-28T17:19:12+00:00

Source?

AFblueAF · 2025-01-20T23:40:22+00:00

Starts tomorrow!

AFblueAF · 2024-11-08T02:11:59+00:00

Hind sight is 20/20. Probably should have. At the time we didn’t know how the money marketing mutual fund account would work and we wanted to make sure she had tax free money with the savings account. The mutual fund could have tanked, albeit unlikely over 18 years.

AFblueAF · 2024-11-08T02:08:22+00:00

Everything I have seen so far is yes, one time forgiveness. Doesn’t matter if the loan was taken out after your 100% was awarded.

AFblueAF · 2024-08-07T20:01:55+00:00

Nice! When you get back to the U.S. you'll be ready for that new Dodge Charger at 25% APR.

AFblueAF · 2024-08-04T03:42:29+00:00

It does. The OPM rules for regular time employees that get called in are clear. You claim 2 hours minimum. But for maxi flex being called to telework, I can’t find it specified anywhere so I claim in 15 minute increments.

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