Posted on Oct 25, 2016
What was the most surprising thing to you about civilian employers when you got out of the military and started looking for work?
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That we have different perspectives on what "professionalism" is. In the military you can probably tell your peer to "f-off" and laugh about it but you'd get on his/her case if their boot was untied. In the civilian sector, it's a bit of the opposite. You can look a little scrubby (by military standards) but you can't tell your co-workers to "f-off."
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The one that gets me is that they are surprised by my attention to detail. They tell me to a task a certain way, I do it that way and just want to get it done. I hate to wait and waste time, let me go and do what needs to be done so I can go home.
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Sgt Terry Hall
I hear you, Ben! That is a great quality and I think it's really appreciated by some and not so much by others.
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Calling everyone "Sir" or "Ma'am", getting work done quickly and efficiently, having a clean workspace, organizational skills.
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PO1 (Join to see) , and that's usually followed by the questions "How do you get your work done so quickly?" and "How do you do that?" and on occasion "Why you trying to make the rest of us look bad?"
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MSG (Join to see) - Yep......the "how did you get done so quickly" has been said quite a few times. Usually I'm done with all of my work by lunch time and just sit at my desk, trying to stay busy. It took me a bit but I am able to stretch my workout that I have for the day. I still end up finishing by lunch time, no matter how hard I don't go so fast.
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