PET PEEV

[riggah052]

Brings a whole new aspect of ‘eating on the run‘ doesn‘t it?

Most of my personal peevs were brought up but the one that wasn‘t ... double standards. Don‘t care if it‘s reg/res, male/female, cbt arms/spt trades, i‘m sure that anybody with time in has seen it and nothing else makes me as angry.
One thing my dad taught me was that if you can‘t do the job as well as your team/crew/whatever improve or change. Never EVER try to lower a reasonable standard as it lowers morale, at first I didn‘t understand. Five years later (in 2 days anyway) I understand all too well, in some cases in is strictly a ‘policy ‘ thing brought down from higher up, others a leadership problem. In either case it is something to learn from so that when/if you eventually become a person in a leadership position you can try to change it.
(warstory inc.) :warstory: In my time in the res, I did my utmost to ensure that if anybody under my charge (I made MCpl) didn‘t meet certain standards it was brought to their attention as well. This gave them the time to either improve or move to a different position. Several people under me earned commendations from other units for their work in support exercises. I also got charged with harassment twice from personnel who ‘moved to another position‘. Once I rolled over to the regs, I saw double standards everywhere, but I have to wait and learn from my experiences as I am once again a lowly PTE.

 

[Fader]

Do you mean double standards like when your course WO tells you on inspection to snail your webbing, and burn the threads; and during combat PT two days later you see his webbing consisting of straps dangling and frayed threads everywhere;
or double standards like an instructor jacking up one student for doing something blatenly wrong, but letting it slide with another student?

 

[riggah052]

Just double standards in general, you set an example for anyone reading, instr/student. In your case it‘s a leadership thing, a minor case, but a D.S. nonetheless.

Principle #3 Lead by example (do as I do, not as I say)

 

[Doug VT]

Doing things for the wrong reasons. Everyone can think of an example of this I‘m sure....

 

[Fader]

Oh yeah, you know it; everything I did for the first year in was for the wrong reason

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And I just thought of another, more universal one:

People with no control over thier hormones, or respect for others who go out, sweet talk someone else whose with no control over thier hormones, have sex with them, and leave them; completly unaccountable for what they did.

How this relates to the army, is that I‘ve seen it done a lot with guys on course who sweet talk innocent girls with exciting stories about thier non-existant military exploits, get in thier pants, then leave them as if nothing happened, never coming back.

I think it‘s worse when guys in the army do it, because that is blatent abuse of the uniform, and horribly disrespectful to both their self and the other human being. Worse, for guys on short courses from all over the country, it‘s easier for them to get away with it.

 

[Korus]

One of my Pet Peeves is Canadians who complain about American problems, without looking at and trying to deal with Canada‘s problems first.

 

[sgtdixon]

Doing things for the wrong reasons?
Howabout the CAR Being disbanded
doug answer your PM‘s

 

[Fusaki]

People who think that being Canadian is primarily about being "not an American".

Also, people who think that going to church means you‘re a good Catholic and drinking Canadian means you‘re a patriot.