Post by gobbit on Feb 24, 2007 23:08:01 GMT -5
This shit is real. Truely
I was in the navy in the nuclear program, they say we were the best of the best. Now we had this engineer, he was in charge of the reactor department and etc. Now for those not in the know, it didn't make a difference on what college degree someone had, anyone could be an officer in any department, basically. This guy was a paper pushing officer who decided he wanted to be our Engineering Officer, so that is what he made himself. His nickname was megawatt, seeing as how he was actually a dim witted bulb. But he never caught on to that irony.
Anyway, he decided that when we had our yearly review, test, etc, he didn't want a ship load of straight A people., he wanted a gauss jordan curve ,ie, bell curve of mostly C crew, and some B and D, with a rare A or F. so that is what he told the training department. So here we were given a new test to take. Now I was an electrician. there were basically 4 types of nucs, mechanics, electronics, electricians, and the phone guys, (IC) lol, so here I looked at this test , scanning down it I noticed questions like, "What is a spring bearing?" now as an electrician I had no frekiing idea what one was. It didn't take but a few seconds to realize that there was no way in hell i could pass this test. The best I could do was get a 25% for the 1/4 of it that was electrician. Soooo, being the dumb shit I was, I handed in a blank piece of paper with my name on it , saying there was no need for me to waste my time filling a failing paper or waste their time grading it. Then I turned around and walked out of the class room.
Well, when we got our grades back they had given me a 20%. Seems like they couldn't give me a zero because then the engineer would want to look at what kind of paper got a zero. and they couldln't let him see my lack of participation in his excellent commanding skills. Any way, they then put me on 16 hr days to 'retrain' me so i could make this engineer proud of his crew.
A ps note, one of the mechanics put down the answer to spring bearing was a bearing that worked in the spring time. they gave him credit, because since the engineer wanted a bell curve, they gave him one, reguardless of our answers. and he was a happy dumb shit, and i learned a valuable lesson; get the hell out of the navy.
I was in the navy in the nuclear program, they say we were the best of the best. Now we had this engineer, he was in charge of the reactor department and etc. Now for those not in the know, it didn't make a difference on what college degree someone had, anyone could be an officer in any department, basically. This guy was a paper pushing officer who decided he wanted to be our Engineering Officer, so that is what he made himself. His nickname was megawatt, seeing as how he was actually a dim witted bulb. But he never caught on to that irony.
Anyway, he decided that when we had our yearly review, test, etc, he didn't want a ship load of straight A people., he wanted a gauss jordan curve ,ie, bell curve of mostly C crew, and some B and D, with a rare A or F. so that is what he told the training department. So here we were given a new test to take. Now I was an electrician. there were basically 4 types of nucs, mechanics, electronics, electricians, and the phone guys, (IC) lol, so here I looked at this test , scanning down it I noticed questions like, "What is a spring bearing?" now as an electrician I had no frekiing idea what one was. It didn't take but a few seconds to realize that there was no way in hell i could pass this test. The best I could do was get a 25% for the 1/4 of it that was electrician. Soooo, being the dumb shit I was, I handed in a blank piece of paper with my name on it , saying there was no need for me to waste my time filling a failing paper or waste their time grading it. Then I turned around and walked out of the class room.
Well, when we got our grades back they had given me a 20%. Seems like they couldn't give me a zero because then the engineer would want to look at what kind of paper got a zero. and they couldln't let him see my lack of participation in his excellent commanding skills. Any way, they then put me on 16 hr days to 'retrain' me so i could make this engineer proud of his crew.
A ps note, one of the mechanics put down the answer to spring bearing was a bearing that worked in the spring time. they gave him credit, because since the engineer wanted a bell curve, they gave him one, reguardless of our answers. and he was a happy dumb shit, and i learned a valuable lesson; get the hell out of the navy.
