Saga of Sadim

[notalwaysright]

Re: Communal showers... Goodness, a person goes into the military and doesn't want to use the showers? I mean, I would think that would be least of their concerns. I would be much more stressed about the physical aspects like running, and the idea that someone might give me a grenade launcher someday.

When I was in HS and a small group went to Japan we were warned of a couple things. Squat-style toilets, for one thing. (I preferred these) The second was the likelihood of communal showers and baths. The hostel we stayed at had them, and some groups decided they would go in individually. Not by group, I mean each person would go in by themselves. So it's summer, humid and hot, and we're walking all day long and we get back to this giant line of people outside the showers. Um, no. You don't get to change the rules because you are afraid to be naked in front of people of the same gender. If this was a deal-breaker, then maybe the trip wasn't a great choice? Later, my host mom took me to a hot-springs. I'm pretty shy, so I was wary of the whole idea, but it's so very normal that it's hard to stay nervous.

[SimonF12009]

In the military in general -- and within the confines of a ship or sub, in particular -- How the hell did this goldbrick get away with not BATHING?!? o_O

I had something like that when I was younger, I was in Air Cadets and we were at an actual RAF base for 1 week of Summer Camp. One of the younger cadets did not like using the shower facilities, so several of us carried them in and made sure that they did

[Crai]

In the military in general -- and within the confines of a ship or sub, in particular -- How the hell did this goldbrick get away with not BATHING?!? o_O

Well first Sadim complained that he was allergic to water… I know lol don’t get me started. We would have to force him to wash his uniforms and shower at least once a week. The rest of us would do our Laundry after our 12 to 18 hour shift and then rack out. But to make sure his was done we would effectively give him the day off and he would sit in laundry all 12 hours of his shift to wash all of his cloths. This was repeated every week of deployment.

In BOOT CAMP when we had a person who wouldn't shower because they were open shared showers we handled the issue. We surrounded her with longhandled brooms, a hose and a couple bottles of shampoo. Hosed her down, dumped the shampoo on her and scrubbed her down, and hosed her again. She decided she liked to shower in an actual shower. and since this was done out in front of the barracks, all the other units had the same lesson.

We had one of them in boot camp too. Funny story, this girl showed up drunk off the plane. Ahh ya let the entertaining memory’s flow lol. I was in an Integrated Division half women half men) At some point we were doing an inspection and We just hear a “WFT is that!” come from an RDC (Drill Instructor) A gray pillow comes flying out in the middle of the room. (It should have been white) The RDC walks up to this girl we will call her Dirty Drunk or DD and uses DD’s ID to scrape enough grease off her face we could all see it from a distance. So the RDC asks DD if she has EVER showered and DD lies and says yes. Well seems the other females were tired of DD’s smell and spoke up to say she never gets in the water. The RDC tells DD to go shower right now. DD run into the showers and comes back out about 2 min later. The RDC takes one look at her and says if she doesn’t take a proper shower and scrub herself down ( This is the polite version think Gunny from FMJ for how it really went down) He was going to break out the hard bristle brooms and a fire hose in the quad and make sure she gets cleaned. Well DD gets this defiant look on her face and the RDC just turns to two males and tells them go roll out the fire hose. DD jumps and takes off for the showers at a dead run. They never had an issue with her again lol

What was the point of that?! It would've taken exactly as much work to actually paint the door as to pretend to paint it! It makes no sense whatsoever!

That was the point he could waste as much time as possible so he would not have to do any other work. Think on it like this if you were paid no matter what your productivity was and you were lazy then why not do everything half ass and as slow as possible to get out of doing any other work.

[Seanette]

Today he admitted to us that he was once ticketed for driving 75 mph in a 25 mph speed limit. In addition to his earnings from the swamp, he gets money every so often because of some accident he had, which I am assuming was a car accident.

You drive 50 mph over the speed limit, and they're paying you for being in an accident? As the kids say these days, I can't even.

We can hope these were two separate incidents.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This probably isn't the guy. AFAIK Numbnuts was never a smoker.

Nowadays Numbnuts actually looks decent compared to some of the looooooosers that have been inflicted on me since he left. The most current one is always complaining that his feet hurt or he's lightheaded or blah blah blah, moves slowly, pretends not to understand instructions so as to get out of doing things, disregards other instructions, already has a formidable reek going, and seems to just be a total moron. Today he admitted to us that he was once ticketed for driving 75 mph in a 25 mph speed limit. In addition to his earnings from the swamp, he gets money every so often because of some accident he had, which I am assuming was a car accident.

You drive 50 mph over the speed limit, and they're paying you for being in an accident? As the kids say these days, I can't even.

ETA: went back and checked. Numbnuts was Air Force, not Navy.

[XCashier]

Seems Sadim “Looked” like he was painting from a distance but his paint brush was a full 2 inches away from the door. He was just standing there moving the brush up and down without letting it touch the door,

What was the point of that?! It would've taken exactly as much work to actually paint the door as to pretend to paint it! It makes no sense whatsoever!

[Teskeria]

In the military in general -- and within the confines of a ship or sub, in particular -- How the hell did this goldbrick get away with not BATHING?!? o_O

In BOOT CAMP when we had a person who wouldn't shower because they were open shared showers we handled the issue. We surrounded her with longhandled brooms, a hose and a couple bottles of shampoo. Hosed her down, dumped the shampoo on her and scrubbed her down, and hosed her again.

She decided she liked to shower in an actual shower. and since this was done out in front of the barracks, all the other units had the same lesson.

[EricKei]

In the military in general -- and within the confines of a ship or sub, in particular -- How the hell did this goldbrick get away with not BATHING?!? o_O

[Kristev]

Oh my word. I don't know what to say.

[Crai]

So as The new guy on the site I have been working by way through the posts and adding my own for your all’s LOL’s I was working through the War Stories and came across Irving Patrick Freleigh Numbnut chronicles. I about lost it when Irv said NN was joining the Military, I think I worked with this guy in the Navy.

We called him Sadim, That’s Midas spelt backwards because everything Sadim touched turned to a shit show. Add to that he did not bath, Smoked worse than a 1978 Yugo with an Oil leak, Only drank MNT Dew, or a Coffee/2 cups of sugar/packet of coco concoction, and did not believe in hygiene of any sort. Just as with NN Sadim took forever to accomplish nothing.

Two points to illustrate that, The first one is one day we get a call from a starfish that a printer had stopped working. We send Sadim out since a printer issue is a very low level problem to solve. After about an hour of him trouble shooting he comes back to the shop and announces to us all that the printer in starfish office is DOA and needs to be replaced….. What he did not know was 10 sec after he left starfish’s office, starfish had sent us all an email that ready.

"Dear Geek people Well I have to hand it to him. Sadim really tried and bless his heart, but I found the problem 2 sec after he left… The power was turned off on the surge protector.
Thanks for trying Starfish."


As it was apparent Sadim was useless for his assigned job of doing Tech Support, we put him on Maintenance detail. Well one day a "Hatch" or "Door" for some needed the paint scraped off of it and to be repainted. It’s a Ship you spend most of your time scraping paint and reapplying it. I take Sadim out to said hatch and hand him all the tools he will need, Paint Scraper, Putty Knife, Sandpaper, ect ect. 4 hours later he comes in the shop and starts rummaging around, one of the Coworkers ask him what’s up? He says he can’t find any tools to work on the hatch.....? I come out from behind some gear and ask him what happened to all the tools I gave him 4 hours ago... He gets this dumb glazed look in his eyes and mumbles they disappeared. Seems Sadim wandered off for 3.5 of his 4 hours to spend time smoking, and someone yanked his tools. I know this to be true because when I went to look at the Hatch it had yet to have been touched. Well after much threats to use Mjolnir to end any chance he might have for breeding thus doing society a favor (he thought he might have a chance for some reason) he took off and managed to locate his tools. For several days we would look out the door and see him working on scraping the hatch down the hall. Well the week was coming to a close and I walked on down to see his "Progress" ... that’s when I lost my shit! The Hatched was hardly touched and I could flake the paint off with my finger nail. Well after telling Sadim he had 2 hours to do the job or he would end up cleaning the bilge for the rest of his time on the ship he decided to do some work.

The next day I task him with painting the same hatch. As I did not want him to spend his entire shift looking for paint and paint brushes or a drop cloth (All Located in the same place) I got them for him. I stood him in front of the hatch with all the required items and told him paint it and make it look new and that under no circumstances was he allowed to leave that spot till it was done and I Inspected it.


About 3 hours later there is a knock on the shop door and a Department supervisor (We will call Joker) is standing outside laughing his ass off. I ask what’s the funny, once he catches his breath he regales us with the following.

Seems as Sadim was standing there "Painting" the hatch Joker snuck up behind him all quite (How I have no idea but made a mental note to see if Joker had taken Ninja class's) Joker says he stood behind Sadim for a good 5 minutes watching him. Seems Sadim “Looked” like he was painting from a distance but his paint brush was a full 2 inches away from the door. He was just standing there moving the brush up and down without letting it touch the door, so Joker stood there watching and after 5 min decided to say something which was “Hay Sadim! Working hard or hardly working?” Sadim jumped a good foot off the deck and then started slapping paint on the door as fast as he could. After having a good laugh I walked down to have a chat with Sadim about his future job options in the bilge.

I have many more Sadim stories but they will be for later.