Responsibility

It amazes me that there are adults who join the Army, spend three years in, and still are completely clueless as to the meaning of the word 'responsibility'. Passing a message on to someone else, when using that message to shirk responsibility you'd accepted, is not acceptable. She outranks me and still doesn't get the fact that she needs to be where she says she's going to be, so someone's first sergeant doesn't call in a panic ten minutes after a meeting started trying to find someone to cover down for what she'd agreed to do.
I lose my temper, I'm not perfect, I forget things sometimes. Never, though, have I EVER, even once, made such an effort to pass off something that was my responsibility to someone else. I don't know why anyone would want to. That puts them in a bad light, and potentially screws it up for everyone else involved, too. I work in a clinic with very limited personnel. Had I been the only tech available today, someone who had no idea how to do this would have had to do it, or someone would have ended up in deep doo-doo for not doing their job. Hint: it wouldn't have been me or anyone in my chain of command. When you work Monday-Friday, and are not directly treating patients or doing something mission essential, you can man the hell up every once in a while when something that IS mission essential cuts into your free time. Her office would still run, and paperwork would still be processed, and the computers would still be up and running every day if she didn't work there at all. She drives me nuts.
"Selfless service" Isn't that an Army Value? Guess she missed the small writing when she signed that contract.
I'm not perfect, but, man, try to play soldier every once in a while, would you?