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If sigs doesn't get its act together, the army isn't going to wait for us; they will figure out how to do business without and around us. No one is irreplaceable. The rest of the CF doesn’t care about our internal problems, all they care about is can we deliver X by Y date, if the answer is no...

if they can't do it silently, then there is no point. Surface vessels can already go extremely fast noisily. The Submarine's advantage is that it can sneak into an area undetected on passive sonar. Slamming though self created cavitation is going to be rather less than stealthy.

It's not a train wreck from the army's point of view. Think of it from their perspective, as we gradually spiral into the ground to eventually crash down with all hands lost, the rest of the CF will learn how to do business without us. All the sub occs will be done by contractors, and the core...

So the double dip thing is ok, as long as you don't join the same dept, under the idea that Civilian Employees are considered DND employees not CAF? Functionally it's the same thing because the pension is paid regardless and the position is filled regardless. Eliminating Double Dipping doesn't...

3. Seperation Allowance for those on IR 4. Mortgage Breaking fees 5. Utility contract breaking fees 6. TB refusal to account for depressed markets, in regards to lost equity. 7. Clawbacks on PLD 8. TB Failure to update PLD on a yearly basis.

Are civil servants subject to unlimited liability? Is their pay is based off our scales or are they paid market rates? Will they strike to have our PLD corrected or get us paid market rates? Will they strike to fix the disability pension fiasco? Got it made, indeed. Since I have worked...

What I'm trying to say is that every time they chip away at what we have access to, that are not subject to fees and taxes, while neglecting to address differences in the market rate for skilled labour in the communities we work in; they are effectively cutting our pay. I feel that it is...

And I feel like I'm conversing with the deliberatly obtuse. My point was that under the same arguments made to justify taxing parking at market rates, can easily be used to tax us at market rates for access to gym facilities if there are fee based services in the area. Under current CRA...

I'm curious and interested why the treasury board and the CRA seem to think anything you get at work that you could potentially get somewhere else for a fee, is automatically a taxible benifit. Are we going to start having to pay gym memberships when we do unit PT? Why is it that everything...

I've made 3 attempts to write something concise about the state of the trade in reply to this. I've abandoned that effort as I have nothing constructive to say, so I'll just leave it at the phrase "Wait and shoot" makes my eye lid twitch.

As much as I think 1984 is a ignorant blowhard, he's right. Linemen civy side make what a sgt makes starting, and that's before the vast amounts of overtime and on call bonuses they can get. Spec pay's only purpose is to stop the CAF from bleeding troops to identical trades civy side due to...

I didn't want to give him any satisfaction by responding, but since I'm on ignore and he won't see it regardless all I heard was "I just realized I was caught out posting a general rant, but don't want to admit it. so now I'll ignore everything from you from the future rather than illustrate...

I think he meant buses... as in send the CMs to a reduced set of locations and bus everyone within a reasonable distance away in for the general brief and their interview, but I don't see setting things up like that will help much anyway. I think the best suggestion so far was to just get the...

So you're saying : your 3 paragraphs centred around communicating your personal career plan to the CM was in response to: my comment that they cancelled a free trip out, rather than rescheduled, and pointed out that I think it's not a lack of time/scheduling issue since VTC coord for this...

I have no issue with the content of your post, I have issue that it doesn't apply to the conversation. There's nothing wrong with the advice you gave, in fact much of it is excellent advice. I just don't understand how you think the problems being discussed can be solved via CM who has no...

*Sigh* The reason I got a bit of a Bee in my bonnet is because in general 41 pages of text was about how the trade is in a huge mess while it's finding it's new normal, that is causing those of us in the lower ranks concern since we don't know what to plan for, what's expected of us, where the...

Mine's done that every year too, however, the question I'm posing is when and how much time to they get to devote to each member's file. I'm assuming very little since if split evenly they each have to look at 1250 files, in under 210 days, while still attending all their meetings and...

I had a long winded rant in response to this, but I'll keep it short You posted a rant about people bitching about not getting the posting they wanted and it's your fault if you didn't communicate a plan to the career manager. I pointed out that this has absolutely nothing to do with current...

I assume you aren't replying to my last. as for "Make sure the CM knows your plan" That's a little difficult to do outside of the comments box in EMMA's My Career section. The CoC has the CF's interests to look after, and the CM seems to change yearly so good luck on continuity that your 15...