He was thrown off the course, and the station, the very next day as, apparently, the CO's wife did not like being spoken to in that way.
Not true.
I upset them that night when I found that the points awarded on the night operated on an interesting system of rolling them forward to subsequent bridge nights. The interesting part being it made it impossible for students on courses to win, the advantage to permanent staff being overwhelming. Since they charged for the night and had prizes I made a few pointed remarks about fraud and theft which...err...somewhat annoyed them.
No, what got me thrown off was something else. They had been pounding into us that you should never ask a question where the answer could be yes or no, you had to elicit information from your students. So when it came to my assessed lesson - I taught them the Speechless/HEFOE code. They weren't amused.
I did go back and do the course again though - when I was acting OC Trng at Boulmer. So I am, officially, a qualified GIT.
