Some Reasons to Hate Being in the Army

This list is by no means everything and some people may disagree with some of them. But I'm sure most of them people who have served (especially now) will agree with. This list is also not necessarily in order of importance.

1. You might as well be a child with the way they treat you. Apparently, even if you're almost 30, just because you're not a high enough rank or married (cause that's the exception to every rule in the Army apparently) then you need to have your room monitored constantly and everyone is so stupid that they need to be constantly reminded not to act like a child)
2. No matter how many times leadership says you are all leaders and your ideas are just as important, your rank is still the only thing that matters. Period.
3. Purely incompetent leaderships. Enough said.
4. Waste and usage of paper. Seriously, even when I interned at a film company, they print out all their scripts and I still feel the Army wastes a whole lot more paper, especially since all of that paper at some point just gets thrown away. At least the scripts were saved for reading.
5. You are basically owned by the Army. Pretty much the only thing there is a 100% guarantee of not having to get permission for is eating, sleeping (mostly), and shelter.
6. "Train to standard not to time." Main beef with PT. Rarely the case.
7. We train as we fight. Yeah, not always.
8. POV inspections. All the time. Because people can't maintain their vehicles, apparently.
9. Good luck actually doing your job. Next thing you know, they'll just throw you in an office to do admin. doesn't matter there is a specialized MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) for that.
10. Hooah. I can't stand this word. It makes us all stand stupid.
11. Boards. Mainly promotion boards. Seriously, who thought that having someone sit like a statue and answer random questions about the Army (not even necessarily related to your specific job) was a good idea for figuring out who should get promoted?
12. Mass punishment. It might sort of work in basic training but after that, it just pisses everybody off and doesn't necessarily teach the guy a lesson who caused the problem.
13. Losing paperwork. ALL THE TIME. Seriously, there is a problem when the common thing to say is, "You better make copies because most likely they'll lose your paperwork." UNACCEPTABLE.
14. Change of Command ceremonies. So we can all stand in a block so a bunch of higher ups can watch other higher ups enter a unit.
15. Interpreting regulations however the hell you want. Because there isn't enough restriction already every leader needs to put extra restrictions on those restrictions.
16. Excessive Acronyms. As in, just about everything has an acronym.
17. Oh, you didn't want to be a mechanic? Well, too bad. Suddenly everyone in the Army will be a basic Humvee mechanic.
18. Formation runs (battalion, company, brigade, etc.)  If you were good at running before, just wait for a few of these runs at insane slow paces (because they put the slow people in front so everyone can keep up) and your knees will hate you the rest of your life.
19. "Work smarter, not harder." Until they tell you to do it a certain way and there is no way around it. Oh, you thought of a new more inventive way? Isn't that nice?
20. Counselings. Literally, monthly counseling to help you "progress" because in the Army everyone must succeed and nobody should ever be allowed to figure things out on their own. And of course you need to be coached on every single area of life.
21. Yearly training. Mainly because it becomes far more than yearly. Oh, it's twice a year? Let's make it quarterly. Quarterly? Why don't we have this at least once a month. Seriously, I've heard more people comment (which you never know who is truly serious) about wanted to commit suicide by having so much suicide prevention training. I get it's important but beating people over the head with it never helped.
22. When it comes to quality of life the only other branch that doesn't ask "Don't you wish you'd joined (branch)?" is the Marines. Basically, you should have joined the Navy or the Air Force. Meaning, you should have joined the Air Force.
23. APFT - really the only thing that truly matters throughout the entire Army. Basically, if you're physically fit, you can suck at your job and somehow you're still awesome.
24. Micro-managing. Let people think for themselves! They keep SAYING everyone is an adult. How about you treat everyone that way?
25. Sitting around all day with no work only to suddenly get a whole bunch of work right before it's time to go home.
26. Not being allowed to go do anything more productive somewhere else when you have no work because that is your "place of duty."
27. Not being allowed to do anything not Army related that's far more productive than sitting around when you have no work.
28. Stretching training that should take 30 min. into 2 hours because that's the mandated time for training. And because we don't have enough legitimate work to fill a whole day.
29. The Army will only look out for the Army you. They won't look out for the real you.
30. I've never seen SO MANY lazy workers than I have in the Army. I mean, they're always there, but not so abundantly.
31. Logic! What do they teach people these days? Certainly not logic. That has no place in the once organization where people can and are known to die in their job.
32. Pay may be decent when all the incentives are calculated in. But the amount of stress that goes into it isn't worth it.
33. Oh, you have a strange schedule that's not 5 days a week with a sleep schedule that doesn't align with a normal work day? Okay, we're going to call you in in the morning with 5 hours of sleep on half your off days that is basically your weekend when we don't ever call in anybody else on Saturday or Sunday. NO!!!!!!
34. Boasting equality and having completely different standards for everyone.
35. Wasting money and things the Army really doesn't need when there are Soldiers living in Barracks that are on the verge (or already are) considered unsuitable for living in.