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Local policy. Where I am if you're sick you report to MIR, no freebees. If you're too sick to report to the MIR we'll send you an ambulance.

PM me your DWAN address and I'll send you a copy

Random empty threats don't gain you respect or even credibility. Never threaten something you don't intend to follow through with. Otherwise people will just ignore you as a loud mouthed wind bag.

Maybe the caramilk cupcakes are left over because everyone else had the sense to skip over them.

Why do you constantly assume the fit guy is always less competent? In my experience fitter people tend to be more competent not less so.

My trade subocc (IST) manning is sitting around 45%, and my current workplace is not doing much better. If you make it a priority it will get done. If you convince yourself you're fat because your busy then don't expect that to change.

The minimum standard used to be 12 minutes to do a 2.4km run. Now I'm not a math wiz by any means, but I'll leave it to you to determine what the minimum standard pace would be over 3.6 km.

I would but I wouldn't want to replicate some of the foolishness. Best to reformat and build from the chassis up.

Not currently, but it looks like that's the intent with the new bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels. Not sure if there will be a different dot category, if it will be noted in the narrative (I doubt, since they've stressed it's the dots that count now) or if it will be additional points on...

Yes. My current unit is about as operationally busy as you can find anywhere in the military, I believe we only lag behind CANSOFCOM in how many and how often we are deployed operationally. We are, by no means, sitting on our rucksacks. Our CoC makes fitness a priority because without it we...

If what you consider appropriate is achieving the bare minimum standard (in anything, job knowledge, education, physical fitness or even volunteering for secondary duties) then I don't see any issue with a PER reflecting your "good-enough" approach. Right justified PERs are intended for those...

I couldn't disagree more. Yes we all have trades, I'm a network administrator, my job could not be any more sedentary. That said, I'm also a soldier and I need to be prepared to complete all the tasks that could be asked of me on short notice and with great urgency. Can I be 500 lbs in a...

Getting back on topic, when we had to fill out questionaires on incentives, there was an option that different incentive levels be given things like short days. I just want to say I fully support that since I think it's a more tangable benefit. No doubt the increased PER points thing will be...

It's funny how they think they can predict where the IS will be in 5-10 years. 10 years ago there was no virtualization, no Facebook, no smartphones, no tablets (that is to say, none of these things were mainstream or looked to be that big of a deal) and the plan for the military to push data to...

I only see it being something that is practical at the CWO level.

I know some provincial governments amalgamate sick and vacation leave. Instead of 3 weeks vacation and 3 weeks sick you'd get 5 weeks combined leave to use as you see fit. Maybe not everyone would be ok with losing that extra week, but the ones who resist calling in sick would likely get more...

PSAC is still negotiating their contract, as they are the largest of the public service unions our rates won't change until after theirs is finalized. They're asking for 3% a year for the 3 years of the contract (which would include 2 years retroactive since 2014). There's many other issues...

I'm hardly a dinosaur or an empire builder, much to the opposite, I've been doing my best to carve out the future role for the IST sub-occ and foster this fledgling profession. I absolutely agree with you on a lot of things. I think the roles for the core have essentially been gutted, or are...

Maybe you've drank the Koolaid on this, and it sounds like you honestly believe all the "ACISS Ops are all one trade and everyone can do everyone else's job" but not many others are. The amalgamation was something of a failure. The CISTM was so poorly thought out that it's being completely...

Seems like this has just been bounced around since 2011. Eventually they'll just reject the trade for spec and declare that most people that received spec pay have retired and not many people are losing out on anything. They pouched the submission, mainly because they didn't properly define the...