Originally Posted by aytoo
Do you not seek the same from your employer, whether it be HMG or the commercial sector?
No; we took the shilling and do the time, whilst hoping that the payrises are appropriate with inflation. I can remember wives and children walking up Downing Street, because we cannot (circa 1978.), however MOD pay is not the subject of this discussion.
My options are: 1) Live with it, 2) Leave. Nobody is irreplaceable, and to think otherwise is an over inflated ego.
FWIW I agree with a previous post that geographical and family stability has a value that should not be discounted, ask anybody on an enforced *unaccompanied tour. I also agree that to offer peanuts; because a previously earned pension is in place is not cricket, but then nobody had to accept that one in the first place.
*Before anyone mentions OOA pay and SEPAL, that will never be enough to replace ones "LIFE"