Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

[Halifax Tar]

The tool reflects the business process. For the CAF, that's the CF100 which later a HRA transcribes into the CAF version of PeopleSoft. The solution is to eliminate MM and have members enter directly into PeopleSoft.

100% agree our processes are antiquated. Just look at the ridiculousness we go through for simple requests and correspondence, when a simple email chain would suffice.

Leave in 15 minute increments is a policy choice... So a different set of issues.

It's a policy choice I would love to see us emulate.

 

[Kirkhill]

100% agree our processes are antiquated. Just look at the ridiculousness we go through for simple requests and correspondence, when a simple email chain would suffice.



It's a policy choice I would love to see us emulate.

Careful what you wish for.

Next thing you know you are filling out time sheets describing your activities 24/7 on a 15 minute basis. And searching for billable hours.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Careful what you wish for.

Next thing you know you are filling out time sheets describing your activities 24/7 on a 15 minute basis. And searching for billable hours.

That might actually be valuable. Would provide data for what positions actually need to be full time every day positions.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

We did when part of Marine Safety, except we could not bill any of our time. So it became a work of fiction done by a grudging work staff.

 

[dimsum]

That might actually be valuable. Would provide data for what positions actually need to be full time every day positions.

As someone who has done something similar in a previous posting (not in Canada), people just end up making stuff up because they don’t want to lose their job. They even had people like The Bobs come in to interview sections on their inputs.

A big failing of that system was that my day could vary wildly depending on what real-world situation was going on, and there was no “typical” day. If nothing was going on, there was a lot of gym time and chatting. If something was going on, then I was at work for 12+ hours. But you never knew which day would be which when you showed up at work.

 

[Kirkhill]

As someone who has done something similar in a previous posting (not in Canada), people just end up making stuff up because they don’t want to lose their job. They even had people like The Bobs come in to interview sections on their inputs.

A big failing of that system was that my day could vary wildly depending on what real-world situation was going on, and there was no “typical” day. If nothing was going on, there was a lot of gym time and chatting. If something was going on, then I was at work for 12+ hours. But you never knew which day would be which when you showed up at work.

That sounds exactly like the arguments I had with my bosses and accountants in 40 years of filling in time sheets. I lost every argument, as did my co-workers.

 

[Furniture]

That might actually be valuable. Would provide data for what positions actually need to be full time every day positions.

Agreed 100%

The one thing I hear people complain about the most is that the CAF doesn't micromanage them enough. People want more processes and stats for ever larger HQs to track.
/s

 

[Kirkhill]

Interesting discussion of the Arctic - If Canada (and Denmark) has opportunities, but refuses to exploit them, resulting in a Sino-Russian advantage, would the US be inclined to force the issue itself?

 

[ytz]

No idea where to put this. But this was an important event today. And there were lunch hour launch viewing parties at Star Top and Carling.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1879282084319309829

JAY-C/-D1/-D2 manifested by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory appears to be the Gray Jay constellation built by SFL for Defence Research and Development Canada. This is a trio of 30 kg microsatellites with multiple sensors that will fly in formation to detect and identify surface and airborne targets in Canada’s Arctic region.

SpaceX Transporter-12 launches more than 100 satellites - NASASpaceFlight.com

On Tuesday, January 14 at 11:09 AM PST (19:09 UTC) SpaceX launched the Transporter-12 rideshare…

www.nasaspaceflight.com

 

[Alberta Bound]

That might actually be valuable. Would provide data for what positions actually need to be full time every day positions.

I will echo what others have said. The RCMP used to have a form to account for what you did every shift in 15 min block. Which were to confirm that you were meeting goals. Which changed constantly. C-75Ds. Every week you checked the goals and then tailored your C-75D to match what was required. No matter what you did. A waste of paper, the hour each member used up to fill them in each week, the time for the PSE who typed up the summary, sent off one copy to sub-division, another to Division and filed another. Truly a Govt exercise in bureaucracy.

 

[lenaitch]

I will echo what others have said. The RCMP used to have a form to account for what you did every shift in 15 min block. Which were to confirm that you were meeting goals. Which changed constantly. C-75Ds. Every week you checked the goals and then tailored your C-75D to match what was required. No matter what you did. A waste of paper, the hour each member used up to fill them in each week, the time for the PSE who typed up the summary, sent off one copy to sub-division, another to Division and filed another. Truly a Govt exercise in bureaucracy.

The OPP has done that since the 1960s. Activity types, incident codes, etc. like everything else now it is all electronic. It was becoming rather redundant until the government downloaded policing costs to the municipalities. Now every municipality has numeric code so activity costs can be attributed to them (or a provincial activity code).