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This one still has me torn between laughing or crying. At the same time that the ETB was being created which allows you to take essentially any training education in almost anything*, tons of programs were being stripped out of the ILP because it was so popular among those in uniforms that they...

I took a 50% pay cut when I left the CAF, no regrets. I could have went to a government job easily enough and had similar benefits and pay that was closer to the CAF, but working for the CAF taught me no matter how much they pay me, I'll probably hate it. My earning potential is much higher now...

There are specific ways to waive every requirement in the Army. Sometimes people just decide the process is too onerous and that they will take it upon themselves to "accept the risk" instead of staffing the appropriate waiver and to the proper authority. That's choosing not to follow a...

That's not breaking the policy, is it? None of that is breaking policies, what you are describing is literally just following them. I agree that we need to accept more risk in finance but you'd have to be more specific. Most things I've seen where we need to "accept more risk," Commanders...

Breaking policies is not accepting risk. This is basic combat estimate stuff you start learning in, literally, the Basic Military Officer Qualification course and continue training on every career course you do until, evidently, you're past the rank of Captain - which funny enough is where...

For all the talk of micromanagement, I think back to the toxic situations I was on the receiving end of and it wasn't being micromanaged that was the problem. It's difficult to put a finger on but it generally came down to competence, or the lack thereof, and the direction that came from that...

I've become pretty good friends with the last two and current US officer that is employed in 1 CMBG HQ. The US is a pretty vast geographic area with lots of variety in cost of living between the regions. They do get some kind of housing allowance that varies by region (not to mention...

I grew up in an end-of-the-road outport community in Newfoundland. My great grandfather was a fisherman, my grandfather was a fisherman, and my father hauled nets in the mornings before he went to school growing up when the season overlapped and then fished in the summers growing up. The...

Lol, you think you take away EI and all the lobster fisherman would just sell their licenses? Pretty sure they'd just go find a job during non-fishing season, those with any sense of shame already do.

No need to complicate this. Just get rid of the program and let private insurance companies offer it as a service. You can choose to put your money in into your TFSA instead if you so please. Those on the 14 weeks on/38 weeks off work schedule will probably make better choices when they realize...

Oh, and our phones go through Citrix so I have the same work phone number/voicemail/etc. whether I am at my work desk, a client's office doing an audit, my home, or in Japan on a public computer. My phone info doesn't change.

I'm not tech savvy either and I'll probably make this more confusing. And yes, we have standard workstations at our offices at our desks (although they are laptops so we can take them to client sites for audit work). Citrix is not a machine, it's software. Imagine logging into your normal DWAN...

Of course any kind of real improvement is a bridge too far for the CAF / Federal government. It would be a clownshow that would make the Phoenix pay system implementation look like the troops tearing down mod tent at end-ex.... But the longer they delay the worst it's going to get when its...

My experience in a private sector white collar job is that the employees largely want to WFH and the employer is trying to get that genie back in the bottle without everybody quitting. That's generally the impression I get from the our clients too, although admittedly we have clients who are...

It must be because these guys are not actually in charge that they're able to escape scrutiny. I will never understand why anybody still believes our CWOs are some kind of last hold for common sense. In my experience they often drive these kind of stupid ideas (our RSM wanted to charge everyone...

If we're talking of the same jerking off in the shower guy, then he was promoted to MWO. Surely there was only one in Edmonton? I just had no idea he was a WO when it happened.

This is great but like most things out of CADTC completely ignores reality. A unit never comes out of the Build Year more or less intact, in particular the leadership positions. So in practice you've got to start everything right back at square one. The new MRP also did not make it a...

Lot's of hearsay and lots of appeals to authority in there, but nothing of any value - well, the idea that being in the CAF is in anyway correlated with credibility has some comedic value I guess.

Didn't state that he went there the same day. I doubt he went to see the clerks at 0500 before his 0630 surgery. What is this, your 3rd or 4th version of what's going on here? I can't keep track. This latest interpretation seems to directly conflict with the one below, you sure didn't seem to...

I cannot believe the lengths you will go to... anyone can read the posts and see you are clearly trying to talk out of both sides of your mouth. You were responding to me, quoting my post, and the idea that if the member wants to quote policy and ask that it be applied correctly, you'll find a...