Letter of Counseling Rebuttal

MEMO FOR 1922nd CS/CCF

SUBJECT: Letter of Counseling Response, SSgt Moebius Traum

To whom it may concern,

Although I am not contesting the LOC received on 22 Jul 08, in the interest of clarification, I’d like to submit the following additional information.

On 22 July 08, when I reported to work as (I understood myself to be) scheduled, MSgt Lewis called me into his office and presented me with a Letter of Counseling for Failure to Go. He believed that I was scheduled to work on 21 July 08 and that I did not show up for work. On the schedule I had, dated 18 July 08, I was not scheduled to work that day. The schedule was changed while I was on leave and no one notified me of the schedule change. I did not intentionally fail to report for work. The unmanned shift was as much a product of a frequently changing schedule as inattentiveness on my part. In fact, over the past two months, there have been at least four instances of shift workers reporting for work on the wrong day or not at all because of frequent schedule changes in response to unscheduled leaves, short-notice TDYs, management changes, and a failure to communicate those changes to all shift workers. And, as of today, there are three different versions of the schedule posted in the workcenter which adds to the confusion.

It should be noted that I am the only recipient of an LOC although several co-workers have also inadvertently failed to show up for work because of unnoticed schedule changes. In addition, my failure to show up for work would not have been the issue it was if the other Airman who was scheduled to work had actually been there instead of fishing with the NCOIC. I have been in the Air Force for over 5 years and at both previous duty stations I did not miss a single day of work and was rarely late. These facts suggest that the working environment and workcenter supervision may be contributing factors to this on-going problem. As a gesture of my desire to improve my performance and make sure this does not happen again, I request the participation of my supervisor, our NCOIC, and the First Sergeant in analyzing the cause of and developing possible solutions to this chronic problem so that future occurrences may be avoided.

Very Respectfully,

SSgt Moebius Traum, USAF