Last week I turned in a bunch of paperwork to my boss.
Orders requests for my entire AF Reserve training team, along with all the other stuff that goes with it. I went through all of it with him to make sure everything was good. He later sends me an email stating that since they would be here over 2 weekends when noone would be here for supervision, their orders wouldn't work (we can only give them 2 days off out of 15 days on orders).
I then had to go talk to him and explain that I had submitted an orders request for myself as well to cover at least one of those weekends.
"Oh, ok... Ummm, I think I shredded everything."
Sure enough, he can't find any of the paperwork I gave him.
So, now, I have to turn everything back in. I think I will tell him that I have already shredded one set, burned another, and flushed another down the toilet, so that he doesn't have to. Maybe then he will just send everything up the chain.
Sometimes, being an ART is an exercise in not choking people.
And everyone wonders why I don't have a lot of confidence in government programs.