It's also important to let those over you know that if you're the LPO, then YOU run the division, not them.
When I first reported to the USS L. Mendel Rivers as a First Class and got to the XO during my check-in, he shook my hand, welcomed me to the command, then told me flat out "You will run your division or I will run it for you."
HELLS YEAH! I knew right then exactly how I was going to handle anybody who got in my way!
During a time period when I had no Chief, the EDMC fully supported me in that role. And one of my favorite memories was a particular division officer (a POS, by the way) I had who evidently thought otherwise. He told me "There is no such thing as day-after-duty". (He was talking about the assumption that some people had that the day after a full duty day was automatically a day of liberty. It wasn't and that wasn't how I treated it. Early liberty is EARNED and is based on the needs of the division/command as well.)
I said "Noted". (God, how officers HATE that!) He gave me a ration over this and I told him "I said 'noted'. That means I have heard and taken note of what you've said."
During quarters that morning, I told my division (while the division officer was there) "There is no such thing as day-after-duty any more." The groans started.
When quarters was over and the Div-O had left, I had the division muster pierside next to the dumpsters where we'd be away from everybody else.
Just to let you guys know, there never has been "day-after-duty". There's only ever been "liberty" and I control early liberty. Liberty is based on your qualification status, your collateral duty status, the maintenance load, training, exams, etc. If you are not delinquent in qualifications, if I don't need you for work, if your collateral duties are all up to speed and so forth, then I don't have a problem with early liberty for those who had duty the day before. But I am the one who has always determined this. So I don't want to hear anybody saying they're "day-after" at quarters any more. What I want to hear is "I've got an appointment to get my car serviced." "I've got to take my pet goat to the vet today." "I need to be at the house for the cable guy."
SO, with that in mind, tomorrow is Thursday and I've decided Friday will be a uniform inspection day. If you have duty tomorrow, get your uniform ready for inspection today. For everybody else, tomorrow will be rope-yarn and the ONLY people I want to see at quarters are the duty section people not on watch.
Quarters the next morning was very entertaining, watching my Div-O blow up.
Where is everybody? (Only me and one other guy was there, the second duty section guy being on watch at the time.)
I gave them all rope-yarn for today because we're having a uniform inspection at quarters tomorrow.
YOU CAN'T DO THAT!
Sir, you fail to understand who runs this division. It's my division and I'll run it how I see fit. If you have a problem with that you can take it up with the Engineer and the EDMC. Also, if you don't understand the fine naval tradition of rope-yarn, I invite you to look it up. And, since we're having a uniform inspection tomorrow, your uniform had better be squared away too because I'm not having MY division officer come to the inspection looking like crap.