VR, in all honesty, most of the Admin Branch do not understand how tricky life is outside of SHQ sometimes as they do not get exposed to the constant grind of Sqn Detachments and fluidity that makes up the front end of the train.
Any yet it's always someone exposed to that constant grind of detachments that gets Christmas Day Orderly Officer for example, not one of the Monday-to-Friday 'Base Support Wing' wallahs!