Juan.©amaney

Paperwork glitch. It happens alot, the Army is decades behind paperwork submital.

For those who don't know, I work for the Army as a Civilian. Lately, the Army has been becoming more "stingy" with their per diem, and travel reimbursement. But that's besides the point.

When we go on TDY (temporary duty) if we stay longer than 30 days, we get reduced per diem (55% of actual). A friend of mine didn't know about this when he was filling out his travel orders and they were actually accepted and signed byhis supervisor, the budget analyst and the other person (title escapes me). When he returned home, it turns out he owed over 8K for his TDY in Construction Operations in Arizona (same deal I have here in LV). After notices to collect and actual threats to garnish his salary, they just let him slide on it and he didn't pay anything back.

A few months ago, I went TDY to Kansas City for training. My orders werent approved by the BA and were declined, nobody told me it had to be approved by 3 people, and I saw 2 had approved it and assumed it was good. When I got to the airport, they had no payment for flight, my government credit card (issued a few days before but not authorized to use because the bitch at RMO is a lazy cunt) was declined, so I used my own cash for the ticket (~$607.10, I couldnt get the Gov
t rate on the card). So I did the whole week, came back and figured it take a few days to get my $ back. It took over 2 months; fags. I literally had to get in peoples faces for them to do their GOD DAMMNED jobs. They think getting paid 100K and doing 2 hours of work a day is enough...assholes.

Later after receiving payment, I got my orders returned again for lack of signatures. I was pissed, since I had already payed back the hotel bill on the gov't credit card, and the plane ticket on mine. I talked to the lazy ass involved and she said to give the money back in a check and she would look up where to send it to I replied (verbatim) "I've used my money in the past to pay for your mistakes, I will not do it again" She tried to get snippy with me and said they will issue a notice to collect and garnish my salary. I replied (verbatim) "if John didn't have to pay them back the $8,000 he owed for his mistake, I don't think I should pay back $1100 for YOUR mistake. Find a way to get this resolved, you have done it for others before."

It pissed her off pretty bad. They called my advisor and me in for a meeting with the manager ot the program I'm in. He said it wasn't "my place" to speak directly with her and that I should follow the chain of comand. I laughed and said "I would, if the lowers knew what they were doing. Every time I email my advisor, he forwards it to the higher ups and CC's me on it; I can do that myself."

Assholes, now every time a little something goes wrong, they make sure they fix it fast for me, because I will make them look like douchebags

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