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Kaielen
10-15-03, 12:54 PM
Alright...I'm almost cool with everything trivial that happens here. It sets me off...but I can jump back to work and deal with it in intervals.

The Marines have a training facility here on our government complex. It's not their fault for needing supplies. The mailman left a package for the Marines outside of our office (IN THE OPEN HALLWAY) overnight...where cleaning crew members, contractors, and maintenence people walk by all the time, day and night.

So the mailroom employees come in for work today, and they take the package inside the mailroom and set it on a desk and leave it there until a few minutes ago.

Well...one of the geniuses happens to run it through the x-ray machine and finds something suspicious. I'm down there going through some old files looking for a bankruptcy folder when they ask me to take a look, seeing as how I'm the only one within earshot who has had any kind of law enforcement training.

I see a large bundle of stuff that is slightly transparent and another seperate bundle of small metal cylinders (metal because they appear much, much clearer on the screen). I run the conveyor belt the rest of the way through and...LOW AND @#%$ BEHOLD!

The mother @#%$ says EXPLOSIVES on EVERY side! Well, HOLY @#%$! You people are simply the cream of the ever loving @#%$ crop! It's a GOD DAMNED BOMB! It even SAYS SO ON THE SIDES, TOP, AND BOTTOM!

Well...needless to say, I was almost in need of a clean pair of shorts. I would have dropped the box and ran from the building screaming like a girl, but my testicles had dropped down my pant legs and begun to cower inside my SOCKS! So I calmly set the package down, and ask everyone to leave the mailroom so that I can be sure to ask my supervisor what she thinks it is(no pun intended). I, of course, didn't want to cause a panic.

I inform my supervisor...and then she tells me TO GO BACK TO MY @#%$ DESK! Are you INSANE! IT'S A BOX OF @#%$ EXPLOSIVES!

Well...my grandfather just died the other week, and I used up all of my leave for the funeral and preparations. So, like a good Lemming, I COME BACK TO MY DESK TO WONDER WHEN I'M GOING TO GO BOOM!

A few minutes later, she comes back and informs me and everyone else that it was a package of training charges for the Marine Corps.

I can understand losing a box of pens. Or perhaps delivering a case of printer paper to the wrong building. But...

HOW IN THE MOTHER @#%$ HELL DO YOU DELIVER A BOX OF TRAINING CHARGES TO THE WRONG @#%$ PLACE! We are GOVERNMENT WORKERS! We're scared to death since 9-11! We are reminded of it EVERY DAY when we come into work and have to go through a guarded gate where they search your car and check your identification! THANK YOU FOR THE BOWEL CLEANSING EXPERIENCE YOU HIPPY! CAN ALL OF YOU PEOPLE NOT READ!? Do you REALIZE that some of that @#%$ can be detonated by X-Ray devices!!!!????

ARRRRRGH!!!! Stupid ass munching, goat kissing, frog sucking, ass slurping, bone-headed, dirty dog @#%$, mangy, worthless, bastards!

I need prozac...

EZ_Xanyia
10-15-03, 01:12 PM
eww... /comfort

Nenjin
10-15-03, 01:14 PM
Wow, that delivery guy should be fired and then publicly flogged.

Lilum
10-15-03, 04:07 PM
Um you used up all your leave for the funeral?

Don't the feds give you bereavement leave? I know for the state we get up to four days off for funerals, with pay depending on how close the relative is. It's not nearly enough if it's your spouse or child, but t's a start.

EZ_SincroFashad
10-16-03, 02:24 PM
Morons... pure and simple. Sorry you had to go through that.

On the subject of bereavement leave, for active duty military its just taken out of your regular leave, but doesn't have the normal lead-time requirement. For instance, if I call my boss at 3 AM and ask if I can take that day off, he's going to tell me to go to hell. If I call at 3 AM and say, my mom died, and I've booked a flight to go home leaving in a couple hours he's going to tell me, I'm sorry about your loss, and we'll see you when you get back. Call me when you get a chance so I can fax you leave paperwork after the fact. Its called emergency leave, and only applies to immediate family: mom, dad, siblings, spouse, children. -Sinc

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