Clockwork Mouse:-
Far from denigrating the use of the honorific per se, if you read my starting post, you will see that I only criticise those ex-officers who seem to assume that their service rank carries automatic qualities
when looking for a job or new career as a civilian.
I do not care what social use the title is put to, but, again, the implicit assumption that the rank carries an automatic degree of competence in a new career seems to be increasing.
The ex-officers who I see to interview are a mix of those at the 12/16 point, or whatever it's called nowadays, or in their 40's, so the phenomenon is not confined to "blimps".
Likewise, it is sometimes easy to spot beforehand. A lot of CV's arrive from ex-service commisioned ranks, and (a rough and ready estimate) about 30% start off with e.g. "CV of Group Captain Smith"......which invites a certain response from me (see first post again
) This percentage seems to be increasing, which was the point of this thread.