Module 5 Assignment Analysis

My last assignment in the Navy, was by far the most difficult of all. When I took over the collateral job of career counselor. One of the job requirements consisted of submitting the last 5 evaluations of the applicants (people who I work with), in the system. The system averaged all 5 evaluations, this number was crucial in determining if someone would stay in the Navy or if they would be separated. The person that was doing the job before me failed to submit the last five evaluations and only submitted four. When the applicant came to his last month for a decision; my supervisor wanted to go over his record to make sure that everything was correct. Here is where we both found out that the applicant only had four evaluations instead of five.
This could have been the reason as of why this person did not get selected to stay in the Navy. My supervisor made it really clear that he believed that I had done this on purpose. From this point on, all my work was scrutinized and I was micromanaged as I have never been before.
Even though the records showed, that his earlier submissions only had 4 evaluations (proving that I was innocent of his accusations), my supervisor was determined to make me pay for not making the correction when I took over. This started a chain of public insults and a lot of offensive comments. After the situation with the system issue subsided; another issued arise. They (Supervisor and Manager), would do things that in my opinion, weren’t ethical. They would ask me to come to their office and ask me questions in general about leadership or situations. I would be completely honest with my responses. Unfortunately, my responses did not concurred with theirs. They were very verbal and clear on how angry they were that my opinion, in most cases, completely disagreed with theirs. They would always say: “You are the smartest dumb person we know.” Fortunately, I have always have a very strong personality and I do not let what people think about me bother me. This continued to happen for about two years. At the end, I finally decided to take a different approach. I decided to lie to them by agreeing to what they were saying, even though I felt that it was not
correct. I determined that agreeing with them (lying), would bring more good than the truth (Mazur, 1993). Imagine growing up knowing that two plus two is four and now your supervisors are asking you to agree with them when they say that two plus two is five. This was a very frustrating situation. At the end they were happy that I finally “got it” and I was happy that they left me alone!