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#1
06-26-2010, 08:29 AM
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Need to complain
I'm a recruiter for the Army . Doing time on active duty and having deployed I feel that I have some standards as far as who I should be enlisting. I just had a 45 minute conversation more like chewing out from a superior because I felt that an applicant wouldn't make a good soldier. His history made him ineligible to be a soldier in my eyes even though he was never caught for the things he did. I show morals and values and threats come to me to be fired.
Is it pathetic that Everquest these days lead to my only source of happiness? | ||
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#2
06-26-2010, 11:12 AM
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Just a thought, before I joined the service I was prolly not considered a model citizen, but the Military straighten my ass out in a hurry, sometimes thats what sets a person on a new path in life, It doesnt always work out that way...but for some it does.
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#3
06-26-2010, 11:16 AM
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Is it really all that shocking to you that it happened? Its your job to get anyone and everyone. If they look good on paper they don't give a fuck else. Shit, my recruiter was such a bastard that he wanted me to lie about having a previous injury and surgery when I joined...
They are just a number on a paper to the service, and in your line of work I'd say that using EverQuest as your escapism of choice is mild compared to turning into an alcoholic or hardcore drug user, which I'd probably have to do to cope with such scenarios. | ||
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#4
06-26-2010, 12:43 PM
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My recruiter told me to lie about some stuff I was never arrested for too. Don't know how the army is but the Corps was packed full of people with questionable backgrounds and morals. I came out much better for it.
I always assumed that recruiters took anyone that applied and tried to get them in, regardless of any issues that may disqualify them. What's the worst that happens, they get turned down at the MEPS? When you got quotas to meet for a job that pays shit compared to it's civilian equivalent, what kind of people do you think that attracts? | ||
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#5
06-26-2010, 12:44 PM
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* When you got quotas to meet you fill them with anyone you can
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#6
06-26-2010, 12:48 PM
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To add to fogbound's point:
Grobbin, your job is to recruit, that's it. Don't sweat the quality. Is anyone off the street already a good soldier? No. It's the purpose of basic training to break down civilians and build up soldiers. Whether its emotional, physical, mental, or even moral, every recruit has issues that need to be straightened out to become what they need to be. You recruit... let the mechanisms already in place mold soldiers. | ||
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#7
06-26-2010, 12:56 PM
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After reading this again I'm thinking it's a hoax....a recruiter with morals ...never heard of one...they would have screened you to make sure you didn't have any....or reajusted your thinking to get rid of them long before you became a recruiter. thats like saying you play a High Elf Necromancer.
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#8
06-26-2010, 01:13 PM
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I think my Marine recruiter had morals; at least he fulfilled his word to me.
I wanted an aviation job, but nothing was available at the time I was interested in enlisting. He convinced me that I could go ahead and sign on with an open contract, and he assured me that something would surely come up before I went to boot camp. I took a HUGE leap of faith and signed open contract. Several months later he called me up and said he got me lined up for avionics. He didn't have to do that, he could've used that slot to snap up someone else, but he kept his word with me and gave me the slot. I came that close to being a grunt, or truck driver, or artillery... | ||
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#9
06-26-2010, 01:14 PM
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...or bulk fuel tech
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06-26-2010, 01:26 PM
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