Question regarding Casual Civillian Dress Allowance
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Hurricane said:
iAccess is just a program that gives you relatively unfettered access to the internet via the DWAN (except for streaming video, and blocked sites such as porn and other adult content). Before iAccess, you couldn't get to a lot of internet sites just because they weren't whitelisted for access. Now, access to the internet is managed by iAccess, and is restricted by blacklisting and content-based, such as streaming video.
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medicineman said:
Of course, I've thought about doing that, and worse! I've come close to actually sabotaging the lives of some professional pains in the posterior. Luckily, I've always stopped myself, but I'm no stranger to that temptation. Just as I will readily admit I've been tempted to "fix" the leave records of my friends when they were nothing more than pencil inscriptions on file folders and would have been tremendously easy to alter and there would have been no way to prove it fraudulent in the first place (handwriting style is easy to falsify if one thinks about it for a while). So, yeah, I'm no saint.
I'm thrilled to hear it's still that way! I have to admit, from my personal experience, I've met clerks who re-mustered into the trade because they thought it'd be an easy way to pass a parade night with their feet up on a desk, and they actually got upset when work was demanded of them. I recall an incident when, as a Corporal, I pushed a Master Corporal out of the way (only kind of politely - I was a bit PO'ed because she was either too lazy or too dumb to do her job right) when she was giving a Warrant Officer at the OR counter wrong information and a needless run-around. Lucky for me, the Chief Clerk at the time saw things from the point of view of the Warrant Officer, and I avoided the hatless dance for insubordination. That and the fact that she really shouldn't have had the leaf at the time - the only reason she had it was she made that rank as a Musician, and when she remustered to Clerk looking for an easier job (?!?!) the powers that be decided that she could keep the leaf as an incentive to keep regularly parading (IIRC she had an interview later with the C Clk that didn't involve coffee strangely enough...). But, yes, those clerks that are "better employed as door-stops" are few and far between because the CoC and the clerks themselves get rid of them in short order.
However, lack of competency occurs in all trades. Just because there was a medic in Wainwright while I was there on my JLC, who wasn't interested in doing any checking, other than listen to my description of symptoms, who told me I had nothing more than a cold and threatened to charge me with malingering if I came back to the MIR doesn't mean all medics aren't doing their job. Apparently, walking pneumonia can just go away after a while, but it would've been better with anti-biotics. I had medics on the course with me, and they recognized what it was, but this guy in the MIR seemed to have better things to do. I can imagine that you, MM, would've taken a dim view of that medic's actions and attitude, but that incident hardly indicates problems with the entire trade.
If the OP is entitled to this benefit, he's entitled. If he's not, he's not. The clerk's workload, mood, or Facebook status, or anything else like that, is irrelevant. If he's told that he's not entitled by someone who isn't terribly convincing that they know what they're talking about, it makes sense to check with the NCO i/c BnOR or Chief Clerk. That's what I'd do. If he's still told that he's not entitled to it - the poor muffin will just have to get over it. I'm just saying any clerk who resorts to making stuff up just to "get rid" of someone at the OR counter doesn't deserve to be a clerk. I don't know if the clerk was right or wrong in this case. From some of the answers posted on this thread the answer seems to be a "maybe", dependant on whether this member is truly forbidden to wear uniform on this course or not. Until that's answered, no one knows whether he's entitled to it or not.
