Someone at my husband's work (US Air Force) is abusing their power. What can I do?

Question

My husband works in a CST shop where he goes out and handles customer tickets, fixing computers and whatnot. Now, there was an NCO handling the shops production of the tickets, meaning this person wrote them out and gave them to shop members to dispatch. The NCO in charge had to leave for NCO Academy, and since my husband is the ranking airman in the shop, he was put in charge of production until new staff could arrive.

Since my husband has been in charge of production control for the past 2 weeks, he has gotten the ticket count down from over 150 to about a dozen, yet the MSgt of the CFP next door who is currently overseeing both shops thinks that my husband and the rest of the CST are not doing their jobs.

This woman first started threatening my husband and his shop with having to work twelve hour days until the ticket count was down to 60. She gave them a week to do so, or the 12 hour days would start. However, my husband got it down to 54 just that same day, meaning the shop met her demands. Next she threatened them with 12 hour days if each person didn't have at least 5 tickets to leave with in the morning. THAT is something that my husband couldn't meet because he only had an hour to prep five tickets per person, a total of 25 tickets. Along with her demands that they do the tickets in order of how long they have been in, instead of easy fixes to get the ticket count down. With what goes into figuring all this out, there is no way to have 25 tickets ready in an hour.

Another way this MSgt has shown that she just threatens people to hear herself talk, on PT days where my husband has PT in the mornings, he comes home to shower after. We live off base so he has to drive home, and drive back. He was early headed back to his shop one day after his shower, so he wasn't worried about being late, but the line at the gate to get on base was stopped, making him 2 minutes late. She told him that he was defying orders by being late and if it happened again and he didn't at least call to tell her he was stuck at the gate? You guessed it, they'd all be doing 12 hour days.

So, the next time it happened and the line at the gate was stopped, (he was 20 minutes early this time) he called in to tell her he might be a few minutes late. He was 5 minutes late this time and when he get in, she started arguing with him saying that she told him he wasn't allowed to go off base to shower yet he did it anyway.

My husband has no recollection of her saying that and I believe she didn't. So now you have it. He and his shop have to work twelve hour days now.

Am I wrong to think this MGst is abusing her power? Oh, and not to mention, she thinks that those twelve hour days don't apply to her. She told them she wouldn't be there at the end of the day tomorrow because she had to pick someone up from the airport. What a load of bull.

My husband doesn't like to make things complicated, so he just does what she asks and I don't like it. Is there anything I can do as his wife to complain about this woman and get her out of there?

Answer 1

Report the person!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

"Is there anything I can do as his wife to complain about this woman and get her out of there?"



Stick your nose into something that is none of your business and you and or your husband just might lose it.



"Who could I go to in order to report the MGst? I don't know much about who to talk to or how to handle this."



Is your husband not man enough to go up the chain of command if he has a valid complaint?

Answer 4

I have been out of the military for forty years but I suspect some things have not changed.



When I was in, the worst thing a wife of a service member could do was to try to poke her nose into military matters.



If you try to get involved, it is almost a certainty that it will backfire and your husband and his career will pay the price.



So, in answer to your question as to what you can do, give him moral support and help him to handle the current frustration.

Answer 5

To be honest, there is not much you can do. The MSgt is the supervisor and runs the shop how she sees fit. She has a boss too and may be feeling some pressure to reduce the number of tickets. The military is a misson oriented organization. You are given orders and are expected to obey them. Most people don't like their boss. If you make a complaint, two things may happen. The MSgt may cut back on the hours the airmen are working, with no repercussions to your husband, because she was wrong in doing it or the workload will not change and your husband will be known as the guy whos wife whines to the command.