Sooo, there's this really annoying guy at work. He's only annoying to me because he volunteers himself regularly to help other people. I have a somewhat "prestigious" and sought after job where I work directly for the people that are in charge of thousands of soldiers. Its a really laid back job, not a huge workload, but when work does come my way, I execute perfectly every time, all the time. My first line supervisor and I are pretty good friends, and have this job worked out to the T. He's been here for quite sometime, and I've been here for about 2 years. This job generally has a 6 month shelf life, but like I said. We're good. It was time we got a new guy up here, the other one PCS'd. We interviewed a bunch of people, looked at PT scores, quizzed them. We had it down to 5 people, and this guy seemed legit. He was eager, highspeed, low drag trooper. So we picked him... that was our first mistake, but hindsight is 20/20, right? Its been a few months now, and It's just gotten worse. We have to be here at 0545. Hes here at 0500. We leave here later than everybody else, but its usually right at 1730... hes here till 1900. He volunteers himself to help E8's out regularly, and when our bosses ask for him, hes never here. I know it doesn't sound that bad here, but after a few months of this happening, it gets annoying. Hes a pathological liar (we've said just random facts, for example, "the sky is black at 1100 in texas on sundays, right?" and he'll respond, "yeah, every single sunday its like that... its because of the earths gravataional pull towards the sun and the hay-grass growth in alaska"). We've kind of made it a game here.
anyways...
The place we got him from is deploying in a few months, and requires a certain amount of people to fill the spot. The organization doesn't have that number of people, and is asking around for people with that Military Occupational Service (MOS). It just so happens that his MOS is the one they are seeking. So finally, after 6 years of Military service, he'll deploy. Which is a good thing for him, since he wants to stay in, it'll be good to have under his belt. Until I found out WHERE he was going. Its probably the worst place in Afghanistan. Its the wild wild west out there. Still. After 10 years, its still the worst place. We just lost a few service members over there from our organization.
Its too bad. I feel bad because I've wished he'd leave for so long, and now, I really wish he'd stay. Its literally worst than hell. When you tell people to go to hell, Afghanistan is that place. I think actually its worst than hell.
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