How Does Having A Chief's Mess Affect The Workforce

Having an inactive chief’s mess in my area negatively impacts the workforce. In my current area of operation, we have a total of five units and ten chiefs. Our units are separated geographically by one hundred miles from a Greater Seattle Chief’s Mess. Having no chief’s mess in my area, creates struggles to the chiefs, sets a negative work environment and affects the work production of the crew.
My current area units include three patrol boats, a station and a maintenance detachment unit. Currently we have a total of ten chiefs that have never come together as a mess in my two years that I have been there. Seven of the ten chief’s have no real experience of working in a mess. The other three I feel in my opinion that they don’t care. I have seen it first hand the struggle and the stress it creates to the command chiefs, engineering petty officer chiefs and shop chiefs. I’ve seen the chief buried in his own work environment that he/she makes no time for his crew. They create a negative work environment for themselves which also creates a negative work environment for the crew. …show more content…
The chief gives short answers with no meaning and hands out stacks of work with no “why?” Nobody wants to work with the chief and the motivation of the crew is low. This also creates a stressful environment on the crew and they have no self purpose and do the bare minimum. Working in this type of environment not only affects the ships’ crew, it affects the outside units that come aboard. They see the low motivation, stress of the crew and the lack of work performed. This affects them too, and they feel why they are the only ones working on the ship while the crew is doing nothing. The negativity and low motivations affects