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I'll put this as bluntly as possible. The type of people who consider "wokeism" to be a bad thing are exactly the type of people who have contributed towards a toxic leadership environment for decades. They're the ones responsible for driving out a hell of a lot of good people. If those chuds...

Seriously, some people really need to clue into the fact that we don't have an infinite supply of willing labour; in fact the opposite is true and it's by far the largest crisis that the CAF will see in any of our careers. So maybe don't dick around people just because you think you can...

Not just time and effort, but good will. When you force people to do unpleasant things that hold not actual relevance to anything they'll be doing in their job, it damages morale and increases the likelihood that those people will be leaving earlier than we would otherwise prefer. We should be...

It's almost like the continued operation of RMC has an impact on the entire CAF, and thus everyone has very reasonable grounds to be voicing their opinions on whether or not the place should keep going. RMC isn't a sacred cow; it has real world impacts and thus any criticism of it is completely...

It was definitely the best of both worlds.

That really isn't an option anymore (barring occupations requiring academic programs not taught at RMC, such as Nursing Officer), and hasn't been for several years. Very very rare at the least.

Might I humbly suggest that when a requirement for mandatory training is promulgated months in advance, you needing to shut down ops for two days because you presumably waited til two days before the training was due isn't actually the "woke courses" fault? Plan better next time. Strong...

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An unwillingness to say no to unreasonable but not quite impossible requests made (At all levels really) is the root cause of the bulk of the issues facing the CAF.

Seriously, grumbling is one thing, but the proof is in the pudding. We're bleeding people, and the longer we go without taking drastic steps to fix the problem the worse it'll get. And it absolutely needs to be retention focused; otherwise we're increasing the rate at which we take people in...

If a person is unhappy with their career, then it's their individual responsibility to deal with. But this isn't a single person. Individuals are not responsible for fixing systemic issues. Because they're systemic. They literally cannot, on their own, fix the problem. The entire system as a...

I would argue that we do have a reasonably high success rate. Frankly, the results that Quirky is quoting seems like an aberration to me. The degree to which that's the luck of the draw can of course be debated. Where we end up failing is starting people right off the bad marking time, waiting...

Of course, this is one of those things that PaCE should be doing better. Unit Potential Boards or whatever the hell they're renaming them to will end up ranking people, but that's largely going to be as a side effect of the potential ranking, and not necessarily as a direct bun fight. I'm...

Ahhh right my bad, saw the "Army.ca veteran" and for some reason my sleep addled brain conflated that with your actual employment status. I'll be frank, a complete inability to have any compassion or sympathy for the issues that may be plaguing your subordinates & peers, just because you might...

Yeah, there's a myriad of differences between America and Canada that make this an apples to oranges comparison at best. The GI bill alone encourages a lot of short term churn. Of relying on a lot of people doing very short term contracts is something that only works if you're actually able to...

Particularly in regards to ADHD and various anxiety disorders, it absolutely is that things were just unrecognized and people were just stuck trying to deal with it on their own, without any diagnosis or adequate medical guidance to help them. It's estimated that even now about 75% of adults...

Or just don't "beast" them at all in BMQ, because the point of basic training is that it should be basic; it should teach people all the skills that everyone in the CAF needs; what it shouldn't do is pretend like everyone in the CAF also needs to be up to the task of being in the Infantry. You...

Don't want to put the cart before the horse though. Need to do actual resilience training before ramping up the stress levels. Sequence matters!

Especially since we're talking CSNI, the chances of someone happening to check their email on a timely basis without being prompted to is nil, so if you're going to have to go bug them about it anyways, you might as well be doing so with paper in hand for approval.

To a degree, those are also often just symptoms of mental illness. It makes you unmotivated, it makes you want to eat like shit, it makes you more likely to abuse alcohol, pot, or other drugs.