Have you ever been told, basically word for word, what you are to write in *your* memorandums? Keyword being "your." I ask this because it seems wrong for a supervisor to order a subordinate to write a memo concerning an incident, and then dictate the content of that memo to that subordinate and expect it to be returned verbatim.
Case in point: I was told to write a memo by my supervisor. The request for the memo came from a civilian staff member, who apparently has the authority to demand memorandums from officers, as my supervisor has directed me to comply. I don't have a problem doing it, but the civilian has my memo already planned out for me, word for word. I'm not comfortable signing my name to anything, as if I actually thought it up and wrote it out, when it's not so. I plan to tell this to my sup. and offer to write it in my own words, after I see documentation of the particular incident.
Thoughts?
Case in point: I was told to write a memo by my supervisor. The request for the memo came from a civilian staff member, who apparently has the authority to demand memorandums from officers, as my supervisor has directed me to comply. I don't have a problem doing it, but the civilian has my memo already planned out for me, word for word. I'm not comfortable signing my name to anything, as if I actually thought it up and wrote it out, when it's not so. I plan to tell this to my sup. and offer to write it in my own words, after I see documentation of the particular incident.
Thoughts?
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