Reviewing Documents

I had an interesting meeting yesterday with my fellow coworkers and supervisors, including my commander. Every month we have to do a review of what transpired the previous month - which shouldnt be that hard because everything that happened in the past is in the past and you just have to report about it. Well, unlucky for me, i wasnt out here last month so i didnt know what to report about. I found a couple of older reports and mirrored mine after them, so i can honestly say i gave it the good old college try. well, i had to turn the report in a couple of days before the actual due date so that my supt could review it before it went up to the commander. No problem with doing this, it makes perfect sense. The guy read it, made some comments, i corrected some things, and sent it back into him. no big deal, right? hmmm...

it wasnt as bad as it could have been. The commander cut me some slack because it was the first time i had done anything remotely close to these reports and i wasnt even here for the reporting period. But there were things that erked me that my supervisor should have told me - like format issues, attachments, whole slides that should have been included, and other misc data that i should have gotten from person x. Im sorry - but what was the point in sending it to the supervisor in the first place if he wasnt going to tell me that i was missing some major things? I could have sent it to one of my coworkers and they would have told me about the right things...but the supervisor specifically wanted me to send it to him. FRUSTRATING. and then the guy had the gall to say did you get that memo? honestly!?!? Are we living in the freaking movie Office Space? and to top it off, i had two reports! (at least i knew i had to do two reports, nevermind the fact that both of them were missing the same things and had the same format issues!)

needless to say, when you submit something to someone for review and they review it, it should be good to go. Dont throw the new guy under the bus in front of the commander...lesson learned: ask coworkers before sending things to the supervisor!

On another note - the internet connectivity is so slow out here that it takes forever to upload pictures. I tried to upload a couple last night, but after 30 minutes i gave up and went to bed...someway I am going to get pictures up...