Originally Posted by
Ninthace
In an idle moment, many years ago, while sittiing in on a design meeting (hah!) for JPA, I suggested that confusion over ranks and titles in the various services could be avoided by introducing the SI approach to management. The basic unit would be the Boss (B). This would situated somewhere round the Warrant Officer or Flying Offer level - we can debate that at some point. Each rank above or below would have the appropriate SI prefix so going up we could have dekaBoss (daB), hectoBoss (hB), kiloBoss (kB), MegaBoss (MB) etc and going down, deciBoss (dB), centiBoss cB, milliBoss (mB), microBoss µB and so on. This gets rid of any arguments based on equivalence between services and is gender neutral. Moreover, everyone gets to be a boss, reinforcing self esteem and making people feel valued. Moreover, if B were set around WO level, we would know who the boss was.
Rank tabs could either be replaced by a simple number indicating the appropriate power of 10, colour coded to indicate if it is a postive or negative power or by the SI rank abbreviation. A second identifier could then be added for specialisation or trade if needed, e.g. hB (aircrew) or µB (wpns)
Now where do I collect my award?
You can't use colour to donate seniority - that could offend someone.