Lazy elves at work (section 1) & on the way home (section 2)

(Section 1 is below)

Now I've got a few minutes of free time to talk about work. I had to come in on Saturday and work and was really pissed off at one of my guys, who is lower ranking than me, but in his early 30's (he's also a chocolate face) who was trying to give me an order. I was doing an inventory of items and I had the papers to check off the items to annotate what was there and what wasn't there. So one of my guys says to me, in an ordering tone, "Give me the papers." I ask, "What?" He says, "Give me the section that starts with the -----." He kept bothering me a few times after I said no, so after insulting him I say, "I'll do it myself. I started already and I'll finish it." Later on I find out that he went behind my back to another NCO because I guess he felt offended. Actually he was just putting on a show so someone would be on his side; so he felt "offended" for the sake of his reputation. One of the worst and laziest and most ignorant individuals I have ever worked with is this person I am talking about. There are always 2 sides to a story. This individual should be offended, by the way. He has scammed out of many days of work by going to the doctor and putting on an act so he can get 3 or 4 day weekends because he was put on "quarters." He knows how to abuse the system. Or maybe the non-colored doctors on base felt sorry for him because he's a black single father. Kind of like this Asian female at work who is also a single parent and got promoted early for it. In our group we've actually had people promoted (and/or get special treatment) because they were non-white and a single parent as well. Everyone at work knows this is true; we don't speak out against it because if we do, then we're the racist ones. I thought there was supposed to be equality in the military. One of my Mexican buddies didn't do anything special other than being a hard worker among a few dozen in our entire group, but he got promoted. He knew why he got promoted early and laughed about it. Enough about people and promotions. We'll get back to the issue about one of my workers, rather, slackers that I supervise. These facts below help explain the situation between myself and the "offended" individual:

#1, come to work on time.

#2, don't tell an NCO what to do; ask first, even if trying to be helpful. You can make suggestions respectfully and be heard. Be respectful or suffer consequences.

#3, age and time in service doesn't mean anything when out-ranked by another individual or when out-ranked by many other individuals.

#4, just because you're a single father doesn't give you the right to constantly be late to work, even when you've got a second job at The Olive Garden on the weekends. Military duties come first, before an additional occupation, which if you want a second job you have to have authorization from the squadron commander.

#5, when an individual has a supervisor, he is required to communicate daily, such as: notifying the supervisor of appointments & times; asking the supervisor if it is okay leaving work early instead of telling supervisor what time they're leaving, and clearly communicating all of that information; also by letting the supervisor know about personal issues that may require attention or assistance from another individual; finally, to not skip the chain of command.

#6, when your supervisor is getting more pissed off and constantly tells you things you need to do to be a better worker and you constantly ignore the supervisor's requests, you're asking for the supervisor to chew you out daily.

(Section 2 is below)

I try to understand drivers and their reasons for driving foolishly, like last night as I'm coming home from work. Yeah, I worked on Saturday. Back to the story. It is between 9:30 and 9:45 p.m. on the highway, and I'm a few miles from the exit I usually take. I was about 8 miles from my exit when I see a car speeding in the distance in the fast lane, maybe 1,000 feet behind me, so I signal to get into the middle lane of a 3 lane highway, the lane is clear now because I passed a bunch of slowly moving cars. Then I see that some car moved without signaling and is all of sudden behind me on my tail and I know the guy was in the far right lane before going slow. So this idiot gets mad but it is his fault cuz I moved first and I signaled and he starts speeding up getting closer to my tail, so I maintain my speed for a few miles. There are a bunch of slow cars blocking the far right lane and lots of speeding cars in the fast lane, I'm still in the center lane. But then later on I signal again to move over to the far right lane, which is now clear, after passing slowly moving cars, so I can exit because the exit is in half a mile, and this idiot (who was still on my tail) pulls the same crap again, but this time flashes his brights at me. Exactly what happened: I signaled to move over when it was clear and this guy saw me signal, and mimics my move, without signaling he moves right behind me, then gets mad at me and flashes his brights? This guy was pissing me off, so I started to speed up to 75 (in a 60) to get away from the fool, who was probably not drunk, just a horrible driver. So he ate my dust and I got to exit.