natetimm posted:

The drill instructor guy had got him fired by complaining to his boss. There's a weird second-class citizen thing going on at a lot of government jobs where contractors get hired alongside government employees to do the same job and it's used as a filtering process for new government hires and an ability to hire/fire flexibly because the government employee union makes it hard to fire people. That's also the reason married dude didn't quit his job. You don't walk away from 20+ years invested in a job with a pension, health benefits and decent pay because your wife sucks.