It's all very well saying the Cpl should have done this or that, or could have done this or that or whatever, but the reality is that often it isn't that easy. As a JNCO - RAF, Cpl as it happens, on one station we had a non-too senior Eng Off who was an absolute disaster.
There was never anything specific that you could use as the basis for a "complaint". So anything at best would have been seen as just having a whinge. But when we all had cause to "whinge" two or three times a day each working day, then what?
Recollect one comand/directive that the tool store should close 30 mins before the end of a shift to allow the storeman to audit the tools. The EO was totally oblivious to the fact that we actually worked up until the end of a shift, and needed tools. Often returning off the line well after the end of a shift with tools to be returned before leaving.
This was just one incident of many where he made our ability to do our jobs efficiently virtually impossible. There was enough muttering in the crewroom to suggest that a sit-down if not "mutiny" was on the cards. Luckily he was moved before it got that far, but it was close - very close.
PS. It's worth remembering "It's the last straw that breaks the camels back". Not necessarily the heaviest either.
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