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So the new IST career manager seemed like a decent guy. VTC worked out ok. Although he said it's 'a good time to be an IST' , there is still no further information on spec pay lol... But the good news is promotions are happening for people and there's no budget cut career show stoppers!

You're right. Normally I am a very positive person even through a heavy amount of adversity or difficult conditions. However, what really pissed me off lately is the effects that dumb decisions are having on people. Career implications. It's one thing to dangle spec pay or not, I never believed...

I was going to write the same reaction as the previous posters to the 'CST has been approved for spec pay"... Heard that before... No offence... And I've heard it about IST as well... And Line.... I've said it before and I'll say it again... I honestly (personal opinion) do not believe IST will...

So please tell me you sorted him out on our trade?!? I almost got to go to a lunch/brunch thing with him and some others from my unit as a 'pat on the back' kind of thing (More of whoever was left around or just back from tasking IMO) but it was cancelled day of. I was ready to fill his boots...

That's the understatement of the year! Last year and this one... 1 Sigs showed me the absolute worst in the Sigs world and how to crush the souls of those who were the best in the Sigs world. I was there for 7 years and had I been told I was staying there for another year, I would have released...

I am quite surprised that there are reservist ACISS doing those jobs and that's fantastic actually. As I stated, I really didn't know if there were any IST positions or types in the reservist world, no need to jump all over me about it. I used to be a reservist also! And about helpdesk, don't...

Not to sound like an a-hole but... Is there a point in a reserve ACISS-IST?!... I don't know much about the reserve Sigs world but I thought you guys all just did Core type jobs. Except maybe in Ottawa of course. We have tones of Reg F pers at my unit alone whom are doing -IST jobs everyday and...

Sticking true to my word... It's not much of an update but it's something... No, this was not written or has not come from ME, it came from a CWO in Ottawa in regards to a Signal Corps update email. Sort of a 'state of the Corps' vice state of the Nation... This was directly copied & pasted...

There hasn't been an 'official' update since last year when the career managers made their rounds... Probably won't be an update until the career managers come back around again in Dec 14 / Jan 15? And it will probably be very similar to the last update... Trust me, I'll post an update here as...

Maybe after the next round of budget cuts in April... I and a few other people from my unit have just been loaded on PLQ-L mods 2-4 in Gagetown and Aldershot. So it isn't cut out by no means yet!

I was very glad when I read this for one reason... Higher is at least aware there is a problem! It's good something is being done about it also. I think it's a step in the right direction at least from an IST stand point. Over the past and current APS I've watched IST or those in IST jobs roll...

I attended CC in 2013 and have been poking around all over the various chains of command from Ottawa to CFSCE to Kingston and it's just not happening this year. It seems it was one of the first things to be budget cut in the last fiscal review. Really REALLY unfortunate; it was a fantastic...

There was a site that showed the decision of PLARs and reviews etc but I haven't checked on it in some time... I'll see if I can dig up the link for it. It's just a sharepoint site that was originally announced when the trade change first happened.

Couldn't agree more. IST may be the only group that benefitted from the change but that's because we were the most neglected or screwed over generally. CST, don't even say anything, you lost spec before the MES happened! And yes, at the 2 units I've been in so far (1 Sigs, CFJSR) and the many...

It was kind of like this... Career Management team as of this past APS: "So there's a new update on the spec pay issue... It's been deferred until further notice..." US: "UUuhhh... Isn't that what you said last time?".... THEM: "Not exactly... It passed an initial review after being denied...

I've been poking and prodding the career manager and my chain of command over the past year and was put up as a primary for an OUTCAN guy whom dagged red. What I'm wondering is if having a family (2 kids and a wife) deters them from posting us OUTCAN due to expenses? My oldest will require...

Bang on... Especially # 2 & 3... Notice I said I wasn't agreeing with, or happy that people would throw their hands up in frustration with the system down... I just mentioned it does happen. They are currently dependent on the system of technologies we have in place. That being said, they're...

Very good points brought up by all... I do too agree 20 years ago would have been perfect, we'd have a proper structure in place for a generation already. But we're the ones who now have to make the generational change. Could you clarify what you mean by worked at 4191 with quals but turned...

So far it's been a very closed community... You also have had to find a way to show some aptitude in that field. For which there was no formal process in the military for doing that until recently... Generally if you know enough to be in the know, you ask your career manager about it. After...

Rant ON: You should have started with: "IST's make me angry and I want to bash them! We don't need them for nothin, us Sig Ops got along just fine without them!". MES has worked out great for me thus far. I'm an IST. I have been since 2008; I've been doing the job for my entire reg force...