Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I've lost my mind...or have I?

I blew up! Not screaming and ranting but very sternly (and perhaps a bit condescendingly ) made OUR points. IPC is being held captive with a gun to our head at the VA Los Angeles; new standards, new programs, no training, no grace period...I get the objective- get rid of the CA position and replace it with automation but that doesn't mean make us bleed while the new systems clunk around and prove to be nothing but SHIT!! We have to do our service to veterans while the powers that be screw around with the mail; dumping it into the "CMP" then claim "we're paperless!" Who cares when the system actually is making it more difficult for claims and mail to be processed correctly!! Oh what a cluster fuck! So, meanwhile , the CA is threatened with job security if he/she can't adapt and make silk out of this deformed, malfunctioning worm!! Representatives of CMP are here to "train" us on the use of CMP and to answer our questions. They couldn't answer mine other than to blame the veteran who submitted a claim - YES, they blamed the vet!, or to give a stock "we are doing what is contractually obligated" I called foul! When it was over I was teased for sounding like a replay of the courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men", I was told I would be hired for litigation, 2 people thought I was mean, I was thanked, and my assistant coach said she thought I was going to go at it and she was going to cover her head and not say a word! I guess the VSO was surprised that I would not take their garbage system and buy into their bullshit excuses for inefficiency. Will I be counseled? Reprimanded? Lose my job? I don't give a guck. I am the veteran that they are overlooking and I will serve myself and my brothers in arms with loyalty, honesty and excellence- if you are falling short of doing the same, at the VA, I will say it is so. 

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