At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You know, I have observed that female nursing supervisors seem to have some of the most toxic personalities. It's not 100%. It depends on the culture of the hospital...but Lordy, Lordy (as a former freakishly tall but terrible basketball player might say). I suppose I am not permitted to say that but if you ask hospital nurses they will secretly tell you.

Stalker Girl ran up against a particularly nasty one. They call her at 3 AM and beg her to come in for an extra shift because they have some seriously sick patients in their unit and need the skill level. They offer her a $500 bonus and overtime and she feels an obligation so she goes in for a 14 hr shift. The next day she is trying to catch up on some sleep and the nursing manager calls her and wakes her up and tells her she didn't deserve the special pay as if it was some kind of conspiracy. [:@]

If somebody called me and woke me up and made such an inference I would drop the F-bomb about 15 times and then call in political chits later to repair the damage. Women just do things differently. Instead of confronting the accuser they tend to internalize the accusation. Now, as a manager I have been to enough touchy-feely classes to know that what you do is first complement or thank the employee for the extra shift and THEN ask a question about how it was approved. Then you wait for the answer and say "If I understand you correctly, the night supervisor approved the overtime".

It's the freaking COVID thing. It is putting enormous stresses on the entire medical field.

This reminds me of Y2k. I had come in at 10:00 pm to cover for the change over to the year 2000. I left about 8 and went straight to bed. Some critical tool went down and my boss couldn't get ahold of me. So he wrote me up for not responding during normal working hours.[:@]

[:)] It seems to me the whole Y2K thing was like a pandemic of a transmissible psychiatric illness....but, in fact, was actually a vast conspiracy of retired FORTRAN programmers.

We had a Y2K "manager" who bout about 6 pallets of kitty litter to use as an emergency latrine....and glow in the dark tape to put on the doorknobs.

Idiot.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You know, I have observed that female nursing supervisors seem to have some of the most toxic personalities. It's not 100%. It depends on the culture of the hospital...but Lordy, Lordy (as a former freakishly tall but terrible basketball player might say). I suppose I am not permitted to say that but if you ask hospital nurses they will secretly tell you.

Stalker Girl ran up against a particularly nasty one. They call her at 3 AM and beg her to come in for an extra shift because they have some seriously sick patients in their unit and need the skill level. They offer her a $500 bonus and overtime and she feels an obligation so she goes in for a 14 hr shift. The next day she is trying to catch up on some sleep and the nursing manager calls her and wakes her up and tells her she didn't deserve the special pay as if it was some kind of conspiracy. [:@]

If somebody called me and woke me up and made such an inference I would drop the F-bomb about 15 times and then call in political chits later to repair the damage. Women just do things differently. Instead of confronting the accuser they tend to internalize the accusation. Now, as a manager I have been to enough touchy-feely classes to know that what you do is first complement or thank the employee for the extra shift and THEN ask a question about how it was approved. Then you wait for the answer and say "If I understand you correctly, the night supervisor approved the overtime".

It's the freaking COVID thing. It is putting enormous stresses on the entire medical field.

This reminds me of Y2k. I had come in at 10:00 pm to cover for the change over to the year 2000. I left about 8 and went straight to bed. Some critical tool went down and my boss couldn't get ahold of me. So he wrote me up for not responding during normal working hours.[:@]

[:)] It seems to me the whole Y2K thing was like a pandemic of a transmissible psychiatric illness....but, in fact, was actually a vast conspiracy of retired FORTRAN programmers.

We had a Y2K "manager" who bout about 6 pallets of kitty litter to use as an emergency latrine....and glow in the dark tape to put on the doorknobs.

Idiot.

I could tell you stories...

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I could tell you stories...

C'mon. At least one? [8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Yeah. Also I want to know what happens in the year 65,536 when all the old 16 bit fridges and irons stop working.

[Cap Mandrake]

Talking to Kia Motor Finance since my payments got applied to the wrong account. First thing to note is there are a Hell of a lot of Fillipina women working in Seoul.

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current address?

Me: Blah, blah, balh

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current date of birth?

Me: Doesn't that usually stay the same?

<We both start laughing and the call become even more unproductive> She had to transfer me to "customer service". What a waste of time. They charged 3 late fees while they sat on my money. I got two reversed but not the third so I asked "Prease to tark to Mistah Kia". They had me listening to piano versions of Stairway to Heaven and then they cuut me off.

[Cap Mandrake]

*************March 19, 1942(e)**********

Sumatra: The carriers fighters are sky high on fatigue and have crashing morale and JJ has moved more planes in to Singers so I decide to go with what we have ashore and get all the transports out to relative safety to the West.

Very effective except some staff flunkie forgot to turn on the "cancel unloading" button on one of the 5 TF's.[:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

Morning Air attack on Padang , at 44,85

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 26,560 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 29
F4U-1 Corsair x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

Moment of realization...oh crap. The stupid part is they were almost completely unloaded so it was utterly unnecessary.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Padang at 44,85

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 27
G3M3 Nell x 9
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 38
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 12

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 7
F4U-1 Corsair x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAP Peter Silvester, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAP Denbighshire, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Taiping
xAP Varsova, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Surada
xAP Wing Sang, Bomb hits 1

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (4 destroyed, 8 disabled)

[Cap Mandrake]

Fighters at Benkolen fail to get up in the air...supply perhaps?

Morning Air attack on Benkoelen , at 45,91

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 25

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 8

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-38G Lightning: 4 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 12

[Cap Mandrake]

Uggh. Empty trannies sitting there like dead ducks.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Padang at 44,85

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 23
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 34
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 12

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAP Wing Sang, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP William P. McArthur, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAP Taiping, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage

[Cap Mandrake]

CAP is burned out.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Padang at 44,85

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
xAP Surada
xAP Wing Sang, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Heed, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Padang at 44,85

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 16,700 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
SC-633

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x G3M3 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Padang at 44,85

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAP Taiping, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Wing Sang, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Surada, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAP William P. McArthur, on fire, heavy damage

[Cap Mandrake]

Counting the next day fires we lose 5 AP's and an AM

[Cap Mandrake]

PI: Another big attack at Clark. The manage 1:4, which is an improvement. It's the bombing starting to take a toll.

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 39796 troops, 434 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1160

Defending force 42913 troops, 417 guns, 314 vehicles, Assault Value = 1052

Japanese adjusted assault: 737

Allied adjusted defense: 3568

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
6461 casualties reported
Squads: 98 destroyed, 497 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 81 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 54 disabled
Guns lost 36 (5 destroyed, 31 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1600 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 148 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2nd/A Division
16th/B Division
2nd/C Division
33rd/A Division
2nd/B Division
16th/A Division
33rd/C Division
33rd/B Division
16th/C Division
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
21st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regiment
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
2nd Constabulary Regiment
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
1st Constabulary Regiment
4th Constabulary Regiment
501st Coast AA Regiment
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
!/23rd PS FA Battalion
I/Prov'nl SPM Grp
4th PAAC Avn Sup
165th Field Artillery Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
35th Avn Sup
Clark Field AAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
III/Prov'nl SPM Grp
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
86th PS Field Artillery Battalion
24th PS FA Regiment
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

[Cap Mandrake]

Fighting in the air over Clark. Numerous raids burn through the CAP at some cost to Japan.

Morning Air attack on 51st PA Infantry Division, at 79,76 (Clark Field)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 9
Ki-21-IIb Sally x 15
Ki-27b Nate x 11
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 32
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 3

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk III x 6
Kittyhawk III x 7
P-40K Warhawk x 15
F4U-1 Corsair x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged
Ki-21-IIb Sally: 8 damaged
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk III: 1 destroyed

Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

Indochina: Bit air slaughter over Pakse as we are sending some P-40's from Clark over to Padanag via Pakse to help and they surprise the Japs.

Morning Air attack on Pakse , at 63,64

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIb Sally x 19
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 12
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 23

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged
Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 3 destroyed, 13 damaged

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Very effective except some staff flunkie forgot to turn on the "cancel unloading" button on one of the 5 TF's.[:-]

C'mon...you can be honest with us. You did this on purpose just so you could be right in your '5 xAKs sunk' prophecy, didn't ya?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

PI: Another big attack at Clark. The manage 1:4, which is an improvement. It's the bombing starting to take a toll.

Mate, they just lost another division equivalent. This was a stellar defensive effort. Keep up the yoeman's work.

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Talking to Kia Motor Finance since my payments got applied to the wrong account. First thing to note is there are a Hell of a lot of Fillipina women working in Seoul.

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current address?

Me: Blah, blah, balh

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current date of birth?

Me: Doesn't that usually stay the same?

<We both start laughing and the call become even more unproductive> She had to transfer me to "customer service". What a waste of time. They charged 3 late fees while they sat on my money. I got two reversed but not the third so I asked "Prease to tark to Mistah Kia". They had me listening to piano versions of Stairway to Heaven and then they cuut me off.

Thats why I deal with my local credit union. Although they can be weird too. I went in to find out what payoff was and wrote a check for that amount. They wanted to see ID. [&:]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Talking to Kia Motor Finance since my payments got applied to the wrong account. First thing to note is there are a Hell of a lot of Fillipina women working in Seoul.

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current address?

Me: Blah, blah, balh

Kia babe with Fillipina accent: Current date of birth?

Me: Doesn't that usually stay the same?

<We both start laughing and the call become even more unproductive> She had to transfer me to "customer service". What a waste of time. They charged 3 late fees while they sat on my money. I got two reversed but not the third so I asked "Prease to tark to Mistah Kia". They had me listening to piano versions of Stairway to Heaven and then they cuut me off.

Thats why I deal with my local credit union. Although they can be weird too. I went in to find out what payoff was and wrote a check for that amount. They wanted to see ID. [&:]

If they don't fix it, check your credit report. Then check the law for Fair Credit Reporting. While I am not an attorney, it can be profitable to correct your credit report. If you are going to do that, don't forget to document everything. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Very effective except some staff flunkie forgot to turn on the "cancel unloading" button on one of the 5 TF's.[:-]

C'mon...you can be honest with us. You did this on purpose just so you could be right in your '5 xAKs sunk' prophecy, didn't ya?

It was the staff