Today was the manpower meeting with my shop. I took them out for lunch, just to have a chance to de-stress and lighten everyone mood before we got into any heated discussions. Afterwards i arranged for a conference room, someplace away from out normal shop setting to be avaiblible for us to all sit down in away from our normal office environment. Also, before I brought my personnel in, i arranged for another member of senior leadership to be present.
I layed out the facts of our present situation. I layed out my plan of action in order to lessen our workload, and then i asked them for their inputs. Basically if we have the three of us, at work, unencumbered by any external forces, we can get the job done. However, there is no redundency and any change, be it leave, or training opportunities, or deployments would leave us high and dry.
This is where having our senior leader in the room really paid off. After hearing the arguments, i was able to convince her to commit another person to our shop. Now this is a fresh from tech school airman, so his experience level will be an issue, however he is an extremely hard charging airman, and has a strong desire to do good work, which i think will more than make up for his lack of experience in the long term.
The extra manning i was able to secure allows my A1C to train up on critical network certifications required by her AFSC, in addition it provides another body trained in personnel duties to augment my shops manning should my A1C need for go on leave, or i need someone qualified on data entry to update our databases and tracking systems.
Now for the fun part, the introduction to the workcenter, laying out of goals and expectations, and initial training. I'm really looking forward to just giving this eager young airman a program and seeing him run with it. I'm curious to see where he'll take it, how far he'll take it, and what ideas he'll come up with that I've never even considered before.
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