Radop said:
A lot of the complaints about the amalgamation in these threads are simply BS. Quit posting half truths and start stating what is true or state that it is your opinion.
One of my favorite quotes today is one from Colin Powell. This is not a word for word quote but it goes something like this:
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even more!"
One person stated that the LST trade was having 30% failures. The Linemen instructors use to brag about failing half their course. That would be 50%! Great, we increased our training retention by 20%.
No one has talked about the fact that we may have training recognized through a college soon. We could have our apprentice, journeyman and red seals all recognized outside of the military as well.
So now I challenge you to look at what the positives are for this "change". Tell us what you would do differently! Lots of people ***** and never come up with an alternative. People researched this, briefed the country including most of you on this thread and implemented it. Most of the briefings I attended, almost no one stood up and complained about it, asked questions or said boo. Now that it is done, you complain.
Those in the LCIS Trade that had their pay frozen, I certainly hope that the spec pay issue is resolved sooner rather than later. I know that when I did my CISTM course, it was a hot topic as that is when the announcement came out on the freeze. This trade has always made the impossible work, kept it working and passed on to others how to make it work.
ACISS may not work but it will not be because of me. I want it to succeed and I want our people to be doing relevant work with adequate compensation for the knowledge and expertise they need to acquire that expertise.
GDay WO
I don't know about the rest of them, but my grumbles about the amalgamation is that it was all sunshine and rainbows at the briefings with very little actual content to discuss. It seemed like a lot of fluff cheer leading for a system that hadn't even been built yet.
What were we supposed to do, stand up in these meetings, of little substance, and say "These sure are pretty power points and it all looks good but us NCMs have deep seated feelings of dread that this is going to get ballsed up badly" I'm sure they would have been "Oh, well Pte in that case we'll just call the whole thing off. Take an early day Gents!". No actually I think that would have gone over like a fart in church and for good reason.
Saying after the fact that we should have complained in the meetings is a little obtuse. There was nothing to complain about and any objections we raised would have been irrelevant, ACISS was already coming at that point and nothing short of the CLS or higher could have stopped it.
So, now that I'm trying to work with the tools given to me, I'm not happy with the progress that has been made.
EMMA's posting preferences are useless at this point.
We were told the MEMS app in Monitor Mass was going to be a great tool for planning our career progression; As an IST I can't move up in rank according to the app unless I drop out of IST and go into ACISS Core first. This is for every rank level within IST. This seems rather odd to me.
The continued delays in finding out if we're getting spec pay or not I realize is out of the trade's hands at the moment, however in the middle of a recession is really not a good time to be asking for money, the extra 3 years of delay in implementing MES is what has put us in that situation.
Promotion Ranking this year for IST puts me at a disadvantage because my peers were considered Sig Ops last year and managed to get promoted, now even though my overall score is much higher, and I'm higher on the list for my trade, now that I have 3 MOIs. It is looking like I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting promoted when it was almost a certainty up until this according to my supervisor.
The fact that the career managers are possibly not visiting Gagetown and Halifax this year and are not releasing information about the promotion forecast is also troubling.
I think most of the grumbling, at least on my part, is there is little information coming down the pipe. What is given to us is broken or incomplete. Any time we ask for clarification and reassurances we get told: "Don't worry it'll all work out fine" and have been told this for years.
I'm feeling a bit like a mushroom here and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
