I love NATS
Nice one jerricho!
LACC/TC , here's a plan, we're gonna move you all from Nelson Mandela estate, Trigger and the Nag's Head, to a much nicer location, a mere what...80..85 miles from where you were before, nowhere near the M25 carpark, on the coast, lovely place to bring the kids up, and if the wife doesn't want to move, then its commutable, and if she does the extra banding pay and London weighting will pay towards the small difference in housing costs.
Now then MACC, here's what happens to you....
NO TRANSFERS OUT whatsoever, apart form VNs, but if the VNs for ADC/APC then forget it (even if you are valid, or just need a quick LCE)
No Area people COUNTRYWIDE can do APC courses, but hey, tell ya what, lets get those ADC/APC lads n lasses on some AREA courses, because that's fair.
We'll build a brand new centre for ScACC and MACC 400 yards from the old ScaCC but 6 hours up the motorway from MACC.
Sounds good eh?
Well, those MACC lads and lasses can get nice big houses here for half the cash of Cheshire prices (cos we all live in Cheshire), theres no crime in Glasgow or Scotland is there, (anybody see Shallow Grave??, never mind Trainspotting or Taggart) so thats better for them too.
The educational system is far better up there too lads, and to make it more appealing half the qualifications that were valid in England aren't in Scotland (Law degrees, teachers etc)
Hey and as a sweetener, that £800 a day retraining we paid all the NERC controllers which saw them bank a few quid to soften the blow of the horrendous move, we'll get rid of that as best we can.
As for the poor fella who had the pXss taken out of him for being a northerner in London, I can see how that must have been just as upsetting as the lad whose wife and kids got in the neck in Aberdeen. Genius, a perfect comparision. I'd rather be a northerner in London, than a southerner (almost as commonplace as Australians!)some of my best friends are southerners, i'd say it to their faces!
And we'll also move the Manchester watch pattern around when the move happens, cos we don't to trouble the poor souls already at ScaCC by moving theirs. Don't wanna rock the boat, baby.
My mate at TC says that the best job in NATS is Thames or Luton APC cos they sit there reading their BAND5 pay slips, doing the crosswords, laughing while the others all get battered 24/7 with planes.
That's livin' alright.........I love this company!
...we're on brink of bankruptcy one minute, the next we can afford more plasma TVs than Comet in the CTC (bet no restrooms have one), stupid boarding cards, and an NPC webcam, whatever next? Answers on a postcard.