DAA said:Here is the actual Reserve Employment Opportunity Class B Job posting which has since been cancelled...
http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/reo-oer/details-renseignements.aspx?positionnumber=o-8210&lang=eng
rly: Careful.... not everyone in today's army drinks 'double mint latte with extra foam.'bridges said:..... I'm betting they're all more important than coffee.
Journeyman said:rly: Careful.... not everyone in today's army drinks 'double mint latte with extra foam.'
:bridges said:Not sure what that's about.
medicineman said:Hmmm...seem to recall this is something a Steward does is it not?
Just tossing that out there...
MM
Colin P said:Perhaps a job for injured soldiers recovering from their wounds?
Journeyman said::
It's a joke. Some of us think coffee is important, especially first thing in the morning.
Nevermind.
Pusser said:Save that everyone except the Navy decided they didn't need stewards and got rid of them.
CDN Aviator said:The rest decided that officers can make their own beds and take care of themselves at meal time.
Colin P said:Perhaps a job for injured soldiers recovering from their wounds?
Brihard said:As of this morning the REO position has apparently already been yanked.
Pusser said:But they forgot that stewards also run the entire NPF operation in operational areas.
For the record, stewards don't make beds anymore and working the Wardroom is a only a small part of their overall duties.
About 15+ years ago, the Army eliminated all steward positions and decided it would run its messes with NPF employees (who tended to be inner circle friends of those in appropriate postions, but that's another story). Not six months after the last Steward had been posted out of the Army, the Army sent out a critical manning message for - get this - a Steward, to run a field canteen on an operation. Lo and behold, there were none to be had as the neither the Navy nor the Air Force had any to spare. The position was filled by someone else. Several months later the NPF Board of Directors was faced by a request from that same operation (and the Army) to write-off $50K-$60K (or thereabout) of spoiled and lost canteen stock because the non-stewards in charge of the canteen didn't know what they were doing.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well. Professionalism and training go a long way to ensuring this. Stewards are professionals trained in NPF management (their primary responsibility). Assuming that just anybody can do it can be a recipe for disaster.