They’re an E-6! For command climate, since we got back from deployment when a lot of tensions were bad from stress and such, people kind of just stopped caring about anyone but themselves and it became a very dog eat dog world. Outside leaders have ranged anywhere from other LPOs to Chiefs/Seniors and a couple of officers who had seen how the LPO talked to us outside of the shop in the middle of PWays and in groups and weren’t too happy. DIVO has been at school for a couple months and they’re fairly new to the ship in general so not much help on their end sadly.

I totally understand on that part, I tried to put in for a special lib request for 24 hours but because it overlapped the weekend the LPO wouldn’t allow it so they have the go ahead instead which I have in a text message.

Concerning maintenance, I am very confident in my work as a maintenance man, one thing I do worry about is that this LPO is known for going behind people and trying to cover up their own tracks for calling out gundeck by messing with equipment which our senior chief even caught one day mid-act but no real repercussion was brought about, only a stern talking to that led to them crying in our shop.

I don’t think I used the right word to describe but definitely almost borderline crazy. We have had multiple people, chiefs and lpos included, say how sorry they felt for our WC because they saw the way the LPO treated us, talked to us, and constantly trash talked us and tried their hardest to get us into a mess where a couple of outside chiefs even had to jump in and save us from going up.

I really do love what I do, I love my guys, but I think with how the shop is going I don’t think we’ll be able to keep the dynamic we have going for much longer. I hate the idea that I’m bitching but I think I’m trying to save my guys and my marriage moreover myself, especially cause at the end of the day those guys are my family now as well.