Me and Mahi Mahi

Outside at his attempts to kill me in various ways he and I are both trapped on this sinking ship. The good thing is that we understand that the ship is sinking...quickly.

I think what a major problem here in this job is that people respect age more that they do skills. I guess it's a problem everywhere and the unfortunatley engineers tend to respect technical acumen more than they do personal acumen. Just becasue someone is younger than you doesn't mean they know less.

The young guys here have all noticed that from a mangement perspective that we are looked at as nothing more than pack animals and not thinking individuals. This quite frankly goes all the way back to the top. This is a difficult situation for me to be in becasue I work more with my mind and my skillset is directly related to working with people to get them to do what I need them to do. Some of the Marines here have noticed this and have started working around the power structure it is a good arrangement. The two of us get them what they need, they get happy, and we all live in bliss (for some ingnorant bliss).

Mahi Mahi and I have found this to be the case and when we operate on our own we are highly successful at getting the job done.

I'm telling you when I write my book you all are going to love the details.

And this is why I don't mess around with women in Iraq.

People always ask me if I'm having sex here and I always say no. People that know me find that very difficult to believe but to be honest they knew a different Tommie. I love women but, I love money more and if I had to choose between the two there is a 85% chance I'd take the money.

Let me tell you about a guy I know who used to work here. The guy was sharp as a tack good guy, nice to be around and he looked like a redneck Ashton Kutcher so he wasn't a bad looking guy by any stretch of the imagniation. He was a few years younger than I and was a poon hound. I mean you are here, you don't have shit to do, you can do as you please. Why not take a few of the young Marines and get that sex thing going.

Well this is what happened he was messing with this girl and then they broke it off well she was messing with another Marine. That is a major no-no on top of that they both were married. Well, mystery mama got knocked up. This poses two problems for her since she isn't supposed to be having sex and she shouldn't be having sex with a fellow Marine.

So they come together and devise a plan that will keep them both in the military. She goes to NCIS (my favorite investigative service BTW) and claims she was raped. She didn't say it was him exactly but, her physical description of the character sounded an awful lot like him.

So they wrap the boy up, question him and threaten him with a rape charge. Well, he didn't do it (no one did) but, he had to admit to having sex with her which put him in an odd position. Needless to say that the DNA tests of the fetus proved that it wasn't him and not the ex-Marines and now probably looking for new careers (if they are lucky) and new spouses (if the spouses are lucky) but, that just goes to show you that you keep a lock on it.

Well even though he wasn't guilty of anything the air around him got bad and his comapany pulled him out for the good of the project. Becasue of piece of nookie it cost him tens of thousands of dollars. Let it be said here and now. You'll never be worth my dough

You know the exact moment when you know you made a mistake?

That's where I am now. Because of the nature of the things that are going on here I can't talk about it unfortunately which sucks. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with nowhere to go.

I hit the ground running and haven't stopped yet but, it isn't work that I'm doing per se it covering the asses of all the people that work with me. It has been a pure shitstorm of issues that have come up all at once and it takes some real political manuvering to make things work. Especially when I'm not getting the support I need from anyone hell I don't even know where to go to get the support. The problem is that getting support would cause trouble and not getting support will cause trouble.

The way blogs work today anyone can find me on the net that being said I don't want to say much but, I'm not happy here any more and it's going to get way worse before it gets better. I just hope I have a job when this is all over.