NXcoupe
08-24-2010, 10:22 AM
Well, I have been unhappy with what I was doing for quite a while. They made a co worker my boss and he made it his life's mission to make my life miserable and protect his position from someone with more education, experience and talent than himself. This made for some very long days.
I asked to be transferred in ManTech back to the socom program, but was told no, I was needed where I was. I had the manager of the site acquisitions program go to the PM and ask him for me to come into his program, he was told flat out no, he is where he is needed. So now they have no trainers in Afghanistan. The guy who was promoted went on leave and myself and the other trainer both quit and came to the same company within 2 weeks of each other.
So, I now work for Honeywell Inc. I am working on HEMMT and LMTV trucks. They are brand new from either Oshkosh or from BAE(which part of it is actually made in Fairfield) and when they come in, we do a front to rear inspection of the vehicle to make sure everything is as new and ready to go into the fight. Sounds great, EXCEPT for the fact that these are shipped into Pakistan, and then put onto what we call 'jingle trucks' and shipped to us overland. Well, as the mafia calls it, some things fall 'off' the trucks on their way to us. Like, horns, brake chambers, engine oil, rear end fluid, washer fluid, etc. So when they get to us, we need to find everything these idiots stole off of it, and then replace it.
It's tough being the FNG again, but I am holding my own, it's good to be wrenching again and no politics or people to manage, I just worry about what I do and do it well. It's great $$$$ too. I plan to stay with them as long as they have contracts over here I can work on. So, it was sad to leave ManTech, liked working for them, but Honeywell made it worth my while to swap and I don't have to put up with much crap at all.
I asked to be transferred in ManTech back to the socom program, but was told no, I was needed where I was. I had the manager of the site acquisitions program go to the PM and ask him for me to come into his program, he was told flat out no, he is where he is needed. So now they have no trainers in Afghanistan. The guy who was promoted went on leave and myself and the other trainer both quit and came to the same company within 2 weeks of each other.
So, I now work for Honeywell Inc. I am working on HEMMT and LMTV trucks. They are brand new from either Oshkosh or from BAE(which part of it is actually made in Fairfield) and when they come in, we do a front to rear inspection of the vehicle to make sure everything is as new and ready to go into the fight. Sounds great, EXCEPT for the fact that these are shipped into Pakistan, and then put onto what we call 'jingle trucks' and shipped to us overland. Well, as the mafia calls it, some things fall 'off' the trucks on their way to us. Like, horns, brake chambers, engine oil, rear end fluid, washer fluid, etc. So when they get to us, we need to find everything these idiots stole off of it, and then replace it.
It's tough being the FNG again, but I am holding my own, it's good to be wrenching again and no politics or people to manage, I just worry about what I do and do it well. It's great $$$$ too. I plan to stay with them as long as they have contracts over here I can work on. So, it was sad to leave ManTech, liked working for them, but Honeywell made it worth my while to swap and I don't have to put up with much crap at all.