Staff Engineer tired of hearing about clogged toilets
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — After two years on the brigade staff team as the operations officer, Capt. Joshua Moore is fed up with fellow soldiers coming to tell him that the toilet is clogged again.
"Do these people realize just because they aren't an engineer by trade, they can still pick up a fucking plunger and push their shit down the drain themselves?" said Capt. Moore. "No, instead, they come to me with a smug grin on their face just to tell me something is wrong with the bathroom again instead of picking up the phone and calling in a work order." Moore said. Department of public works (DPW) usually handles faulty items around military installations and will respond within 48 hours after a work order is called in.
"It's not my fault that every logistics officer chose some occupational specialty that doesn't require them to do anything more than work on excel sheets and PowerPoint presentations" said Moore. "But because my title 'brigade engineer,' these idiots automatically assume t…
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