Sorry, my wife's family had strong military background and mine as well and a lot of my friends were prior service as well across different branches (Marines, Army, Chair Force), I forget sometimes that not everyone knows these things or can't pick it out from context.
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joined 1 year ago
Enlisted ranks in the Army (and I think most other US branches of the military too) are graded E1 through E9, E1 being Private, where you start, no authority, can't wipe their own ass without help, generally just completing basic training and AIT is enough to get you promoted to E2, Private 2nd Class, then about 6 months later you get promoted to E3, Private First Class or PFC. E4 is Specialist, the highest rank before ranks become NCOs or (Non-Commissioned Officers), E5 is Sergeant (SGT), E6 is Staff Sergeant (SSG), E7 is Sergeant First Class (SFC), E8 is Master Sergeant (MSG) or First Sergeant (1SG), and E9 is Sergeant Major (SGM) or Command Sergeant Major (CSM).
Generally (there are always exceptions to the rule) SGT are team leaders in charge of 2-4 E1-E4s, SSG's are squad leaders in charge of 3-4 E5's, SFC are are Platoon Sergeants in charge of 3-4 E6's
However working in a jail we also had positions that granted us different authority. For example, in the jail when I was working the Control Booth, even as an E4, I had authority to force even E9s to wait if I needed to for the safe operation of the jail. (Granted this would never happen, as anyone that high up in rank would have the whole facility partially locked down so there would be no inmate movement while they were there, so there would literally never be an instance where someone like that would have to wait, but if circumstances resulted in someone like that maybe showing up unannounced or what not, its very possible they would have to wait behind a door while an area of the facility had inmate movement since my position in the Control Booth and the requirements of a jail gave me specific requirements that even an E9 or General couldn't overrule).
A friend of mine got written up by an E6 Chef from the prison kitchen, that he made wait 2 minutes because of a large movement of inmates so by procedure he could not open the gate the E6 was behind. Our Platoon Sergeant (E7/SFC) got that write up, made a jerking off motion, tore it up and threw it away.
Guard Commander isn't a rank, its a position. E7 is Sergeant First Class, and the Guard Commander position had to be filled by an E6 or higher and they ran the RCF (Regional Correctional Facility, aka prison) I was a guard at. The Guard Commander position would be roughly equivalent with a Warden, but in military prison the Guard Commander would be the senior NCO (Non-Commisioned Officer, generally E5+, with Corporal being the exception as its an NCO but E4 in grade, so you can be an E4 Specialist that isn't an NCO, or an E4 Corporal that is an NCO, but it was vastly more common that anyone passing PLDC (Primary Leadership Development Course, the "school" you have to go to in order to become an NCO) would be promoted to E5 Sergeant at the same time in charge of the prison during that shift, so it was like having a rotating roster of Wardens made from a handful of senior NCOs.
No idea, but that was when it suddenly made sense why he had "randomly" piss tested me 3 months in a row.
He didn't pass away, he just ascended with the other bridgeburners.
When I was an E4, I worked with a piece of shit E6 who decided he hated me for no reason one day. I had never been disrespectful to him but he went out of his way to try and get me in trouble and was just generally a dick to me every chance he could be. His attempts to get me in trouble all failed because literally I did nothing wrong. He once told me I needed to respect him because he was an E6 and had earned it. I told him I give his rank the respect it deserves, I stand at parade rest when talking to him, I answered his questions respectfully with a "Yes, Sergeant" or "No, Sergeant" but due to the way he treats me and started treating me like crap for no reason, I did not and would not respect him as a person. He did not like that, but there literally wasn't anything he could do about it. He told me I needed to drop out of college and focus 100% of my efforts on being a soldier and I should just do everything he says because he outranks me. I told him the Army is not my career, I'm doing my 4 years and getting out, and so ETS'ing with a degree is more important to me than spending that time to go above and beyond the standards the Army required. And of this was said respectfully, and was overheard by his section lead, so while he was upset I didn't just bend over and suck his E6 dick, he couldn't do shit about it because ultimately I was 100% in the right. My uniform was clean, pressed, had all the creases it was supposed to and my boots were shined. They weren't a mirror every day because I didn't spend 3 hours shining my boots every day, I did once a week and then kept them above the minimum standard required through the week, then my next day off I'd tear them down and rebuild the shine. So my uniform was still in better shape than most peoples so him singling me out was very much bullshit. The guy ended up getting himself in trouble more than anything else. I never got in trouble for how I treated him since ultimately I never did shit to him and always gave him the respect required for his rank. But not 1 step beyond that, and he didn't like that, but there wasn't jack shit he could do about it. His own supervisor (an E7) made him apologize to me on 2 occasions when he witnessed his bullshit.
Like when he told me to do something which that morning the E8 in charge passed down to us that we were not to do this specific thing. So when I said I couldn't do that for him over the phone, he forced me to get relieved so I could come up there and explain in person why I wouldn't do what a higher ranking NCO told me to do. So I explained according to E7 Guard Commander X, E8 Master Sergeant Y passed down these instructions. And the response was "So, Guard Commander X told you this?" "Yes, Sergeant" "That's all you had to say, get the fuck out of my office." I relayed that conversation to the Guard Commander (who was in my chain of command, this guy was not) And within 5 minutes, I was called back to his office, that his boss shared with him, and got to stand there while this E6 being glared at by his E7 boss apologized for his behavior.
Then when I was close to ETSing the dude "randomly" chose me to be piss tested every single time it was his job to conduct it. Literally on my day off while I was an hour north of post at college he couldn't find me in the barracks to "randomly" piss test me, so he told everyone if they saw me, I needed to go to him. So 4 hours later when I returned from school, I got the message, and then he chewed me out for not arriving earlier. Like bitch, its my day off, I was at college, I came as soon as I got back, what more do you want? Turns out he didn't even need me, he let slip he only needed someone with the last name starting with "R" so he was able to easily just piss test someone else. But he intentionally was singling me out to be his "R" person every single time. That guy was a piece of shit and I think exemplified this perfectly.
I've had VGA come out by accident when its not screwed in, mostly when cable routing and I give it a little tug to try and get it up to the monitor. I think the main reason for the screws is that VGA isn't intended to be hotswappable so by screwing it in you were ensuring it wouldn't actually pop out while in use and preventing a potential cause damage to components. While HDMI is hotswappable and is designed with specific tolerances to make it fit well enough that it won't fall out by accident when routing and if it did, it won't cause damage to components anyway so its probably better to just let it pull out if it gets tugged on than to have it dragging the system or monitor around.
Jesus on My Mind by BJ Thomas
True, but changing the handle is just too much effort for me though, so I guess the plan is foiled in the planning stages. aww shucks.
I'm not really an artsy type person, more of a logical minded person, so it really wouldn't be something I would do. But as a logical thinker I'm good at coming up with creative logical solutions to puzzles. I'd be better as a consultant.
They should just make it a small art exhibit out front, then 2 bathrooms, the mens is normal, with some basic art, but the women's bathroom has a bar and cocktail lounge and the extra amenities. Then the business wouldn't be excluding men, it would just be providing them a different experience in the bathroom which I feel like they'd have a much better time defending in court. But it also seems like this whole thing was done as a form of activism and it looks like one of the intents is for this business to close down so they can be martyrs.
Sorry bout that, there is so much more about the situation that I didn't post, but it was already getting kind of long-winded, so I tried to reduce it as much as possible, but I guess I left too much context out ><