Responsibility

I am here today to take full responsibility for my action, and try and make sure that none

of you of make the same mistakes that I have, by instructing you on why you should

show up to work on time. The reason I am standing in front of you today is that I allowed

my phone to die and as a result my alarm did not go off and I was late for work, almost to

the point of missing movement on the day of the family day cruise.

Ill start with one of the more important reasons why you should be at work on

time. If you are not at work on you could cause all the people you work with to have to

care of your responsibilities as well as there own which could ultimately effect the overall

mission readiness of the ship as a whole.

Another big reason to be on time for work is that showing up late can have a

Negative effect on your evals, which in the long run could have an effect on whether you

make rank or not. Whether you want to make rank to make more money, or you want to

gain some more responsibility, im sure most of us want to make rank, myself included.

One more reason that you should always be on time for work is that you could

end up like me and have to serve E.M.I., or even worse you could possibly get N.J.

P. due to the fact that not showing up to work on time is a violation of a direct order from

Your chain of command. On top of that if you have a family to take care of it could end

up effecting them as well.

Being late also goes against two of the three navy core values, honor and

commitment. By showing up late you show you chain of command that you are not fully

committed to the task that you were assigned to do, and you dishonor the sailors creed by

not obeying the orders of those appointed over you. This shows your chain of command

and everyone else that you can not be fully trusted to do the task that you in which you

were assigned, whatever that may be.