I'm at home right now, being lazy. And I feel terrible about it, because the other guys are still working. But my boss had a little talk with me, about why I need to delegate more and spend less time at work so people stop yelling at my boss for working me too hard.

The delegation thing is an issue, and it's caused friction in the shop. Two days ago Cpl Ose accused me of not caring about maintenance, because I generally assign maintenance tasks to someone else while I do the paperwork. Ose thought that I saw maintenance as "beneath me". Which was so unjust I was hurt. I like wrenching stuff. I enjoy troubleshooting gripes.

All the other guys in the shop are just as good at maintenance as I am, so they can solve those problems just as quickly as I can. But the other guys are terrible at paperwork; most can't write a designation letter even with an old version to copy from. When they're ordering flight gear, they have to keep asking me to help. So, I just do the paperwork part myself.

Which is more efficient (see "comparative advantage"), but means the other guys aren't getting any better at doing the paperwork themselves. So maybe I should let them do it and just try to be patient about it requiring twenty revisions.

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