So, I'm back from TAD. I come back to work on my own ship, and everyone wants to know what I got qualified in. What they're REALLY asking is, what PQS did I get signed off? I admit I'm not very good at gathering signatures, but I stood enough watches to have a decent idea of the stations in TOP, so my brain at least should be basically qualified. That answer got me a bunch of irritated looks, so I grabbed my PQS binder and held it out to the first available 2nd class to start signing.
It bothers me to no end that the paperwork is all they care about, and they don't even check that you know what the packet says you know. I could have spent my 3 weeks underway forging 8 different signatures and signing a whole novel of PQS off for myself, and I guarantee it would NEVER be checked, nor would I be asked to prove my knowledge. And when I do ask people to train me or test me, they give me only the most cursory information, dismissing my requests for something more in-depth with crap like, "You don't need to know that", "You're never going to use this", the ever-hated "You're nuking it", and my favorite, "You can't possibly remember all this stuff."
/rant
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