This ought to be interesting

Ziggy calls while I am on the way to the doctor with MiniZiggy yesterday. He tells me that Cadillac told him to tell me that I have to be at work at 0630 with my training records.

Let me explain something a bit......when I final outprocessed Langley for this little jaunt over to the desert, the nice people at Personell Readiness sealed up all my records - training records, medical records, etc. And I was given strict orders not to open the package until I get to Iraq. So, for Cadillac to demand this(and I say demand because, well, that's what he's been doing) is going over his own place in the chain of command. Oh, and he was very particular about reminding of MY place in the chain of command(I'm an E4, low on the totem pole, but not quite the bottom), and that he is above me on the chain of command. Anywho, I call up my big boss. The guy that's in charge of ALL the shops that do vehicle maintenance on Langley, and I ask him to look into this for me. I tell him the whole schpeel of how I was told not to open the package, yesterday was my last duty day according to his right hand man, etc. He says he'll look into it and get back to me. So.....a couple hours later, his right hand man calls me up and says not to come in, that whatever Cadilla needed can wait until after I get back from Iraq.

So, I am fully expecting a phone call here in the next little bit, wanting to know why I'm not at work, where my training records, are, etc. And I am fully expecting them to devise any reason possible to make me have to show up at work. Which, if I can help, won't happen. What's funny is that I once got my ass chewed for not going directly through my boss for something, and having Ziggy deliver the message, and here's Cadillac, doing EXACTLY what I was bitched at for and told not to do again. Yea, I work in the land of the fairness. Note sarcasm.