OK I AM FED UP....!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK I am tired as hell of talking about my idiot manager, so I email him his bosses as well as a few co-workers that share the same views as me. I will no longer keep my mouth shut while this dumb blankty blank (for my sensitive readers) risks my, and my co-workers lives. So read my frustration and be looking for me soon if this doesnt go the way it should...

Leave it to the fates of those in charge and this will die soon, if justice has it's part then I will still be here for a while longer anyway and he will be on the way out...

Love to all

K

To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to my attention that my welfare is not in consideration under our current management staff, more specifically Ray Litchfield. Since my arrival here whenever I have voiced my opinion or concerns I have been threatened to be removed from my position several times. In my first 2 weeks in Iraq I was threatened at least 3-4 times, because of a difference of opinion. Since then I choose not to relay my concerns any longer, because they fell on deaf ears. Since that time I was given a less than perfect review, but more specifically an issue was brought up that I do not voice my concerns or issues to management (I wonder why). We are constantly reminded that we are in a warzone, but Ray Litchfield felt it was necessary to make jokes that I felt inappropriate especially since we just had one of our workers return from an IED attack where he witnessed 3 people die instantly and one later due to wounds from the blast. Not only did I find this joke distasteful, but also inappropriate since it was during our company meeting. I have constantly come under discrimination on several occasions and definitely feel that Ray is harboring some ill will toward me and I have documented every occasion where this has been the case. I was once asked if I felt there was decisions racially motivated and my reply was no, but that pertained to a specific situation, and since then my view has seriously changed.

I also have a concern for his decision making as far as jobs that are to be completed. I was sent to Habbanayiah with the understanding as well as words from his mouth that I was coming to replace the APG’s. He stated that he sent me an email stating this information as well, but when I received the email he gave specifics on replacing satellite equipment which I am neither trainer nor familiar with the equipment. I also was sent an email detailing my travel arrangements and was told that I needed to travel to Washington (IZ landing pad) in order to catch that flight. I myself not my manager in charge of the mission’s here in Iraq arranged my travel, not only that upon getting to the IZ I thought it important to see if adequate room and board was set aside for us as well. When I contacted our point of contact, he was not aware that we were coming and no arrangements had been made for us. I then spoke with our POC and he phoned ahead and secured our bedding. Ironically our POC was in Baghdad and just so happen he was flying back to Habbanayiah as well on the same flight. This was convenient for us since he was also the base commander. I was instructed to also bring a test phone in order to trouble shoot some current issues with the service in the area, Ray was informed that the test phone was being housed by management after arriving in Habbanayiah I was asked if I had the rest phone and I told him no, and he asked why not which ironically is the same question I had for him. Since the phones have been secured by management I was under the impression that he would get the phone for me, but he was under the impression that I was going to search his office or his counterparts room in search of something that I wasn’t, nor anyone else for that matter, sure where to look.

After completion of my assignment here I was given yet another task to perform, which was relayed to me not by my manager, but by my co-worker in Baghdad. I am not clear why it is difficult for someone to tell the person that he wants the work to be done rather than tell someone to tell them. This has been a constant issue that has reoccurred over and again during my entire time in Iraq. After working many hours with my support personnel in Richardson during his nighttime hours, we completed the task that I was sent to do. When I called to give Ray an update he then asked my about another piece of satellite equipment that yet again I am not familiar with or trained on. I informed of the status and he asked why it wasn’t working. I reminded him that I was what HE said I was here to do and he said well you were supposed to work on the other equipment as well. I asked how was I supposed to know that if he, The Manager, did not tell me this. His answer was simply that my support person was supposed to tell me. I stated that he is not the manager and it wasn’t his job, that if there is something that Ray wanted done that he needs to tell me specifically and not leave it up to someone else that has spent the entire night helping fix another problem not associated with the task I was sent here to fix. He said I sent you up there to fix everything that is not working, not just the APG’s, which I might add is up and fully operational mainly in part to my support personnel in Richardson (MANY Thanks to you), despite the fact that I am not trained on the equipment not familiar with it, and not a certified technician of such equipment. Not to mention the fact that Ray also sent the satellite technician to another location to install APG’s, which yet again that person is not at all familiar with such equipment. After voicing my concerns that it is HIS duty to tell me what I am and what I am not supposed to do not my support personnel, he gave yet again another idle threat, that If I didn’t like it he would secure my travel home yet again reasserting my belief of a person issue, and discriminatory attitude toward me. If I am going to be sent home for voicing my earnest feeling and concerns then so-be-it, however my work performance is not in question. I have never refused task before me, and I have always completed them as well despite the lack of preparation and information from the operations side of things.

I have no problem trying my best at no matter what it is I do, however I do not care for someone that is so blind to the obvious, and doesn’t care who he sends to do a job so far as it gets done to his liking, via being informed by a third party to do such work. I am not alone in my feelings toward our current manager Ray Litchfield, but I will be the first to voice my concern aloud. I am no longer capable of holding my tongue while someone makes decisions with my life and the lives of my coworkers with no regard for our lives. I respect a manger that leads by example not one that leads with his mouth. I also have the greatest respect for someone that is willing to accept blame for the problems in our camp rather than blaming everyone else and clearing himself of any wrong doing. I am requesting that this matter be looked into, before it becomes a bigger issue or worse yet before someone loses their life…

Humbly yours,
Kenley Royce Wade