Comments on: 58 hours and counting… http://markferneau.net/blog/2008/05/58-hours-and-counting/ Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dad http://markferneau.net/blog/2008/05/58-hours-and-counting/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Dad Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:29:05 +0000 http://markferneau.net/blog/?p=339#comment-7 Son, Like I said last night - insanity rules. I've been trying to work out projections versus emergency production limitations for 10 days now (averaging 12 hour a day) to keep body armor available to issue to Soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I've been battling bureaucrats and politicans all the way plus those senior officers who's primary focus is on what "makes them look good". Just as soon as I had a solution that would minimize any shortfalls and rapidly fill any backorders, they changed the requirement numbers on me. It would be so bad except that the new "projections" exceed what can be made! ANd, on top of that, these same officers failed to act in time so I could initiate additional delveries for that hard armor plates to cover for gap between the current contracts and when new contracts can be completed. It didn't do me any good to show just how critical the actions were. It's more important for them to look good and make nice with politicans that to care about the safety of the Soldiers in combat. So, like you, frustration levels have gone way over the top. Dad Son,
Like I said last night – insanity rules. I’ve been trying to work out projections versus emergency production limitations for 10 days now (averaging 12 hour a day) to keep body armor available to issue to Soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve been battling bureaucrats and politicans all the way plus those senior officers who’s primary focus is on what “makes them look good”. Just as soon as I had a solution that would minimize any shortfalls and rapidly fill any backorders, they changed the requirement numbers on me. It would be so bad except that the new “projections” exceed what can be made! ANd, on top of that, these same officers failed to act in time so I could initiate additional delveries for that hard armor plates to cover for gap between the current contracts and when new contracts can be completed. It didn’t do me any good to show just how critical the actions were. It’s more important for them to look good and make nice with politicans that to care about the safety of the Soldiers in combat. So, like you, frustration levels have gone way over the top.

Dad

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