Former Rec chief disgusted with the Uscg's Nmc

摘要

When you can no longer support your employer's policies and its conduct towards some of its customers [mariners], it's time to retire and move on. That is what I have done after 20 years as the chief of the U.S. Coast Guard Baltimore Regional Exam Center (REC). Since the Coast Guard's National Maritime Center (NMC) in West Virginia became operational (in 2007), too often mariners have found that the decisions made by those at the NMC has hurt their careers and livelihoods. The RECs in the NMC's original vision statement were to be advocates for the mariner, which I attempted to do many times when I found that they were being harmed by the incorrect decisions being made by the contractualew GS evaluators at NMC. I questioned and complained so many times about bad evaluations that I was directed by my supervisors to only concern myself with making sure all the "i's and t's" were dotted and crossed on the applications and not to contact the NMC evaluators because I was upsetting them.