Another Management Waste of Money!!!
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Another Management Waste of Money!!!
Just received my very own copy of "The Officers' Career Management Strategy". The covering letter strongly encourages me to read it and states that it can be found at www.raf.r.mil.uk also!
So why send out a 12-page glossy brochure when I can read it on-line? I thought the MoD was short of money? No bl00dy wonder if the Agencies that it employs (PMA in this case) waste cash like this! Good to see that 'front line first' is still working!!
Still, Page 3, para 4 is interesting - not many of us given the freedom to do that as the higher-ups are too afraid for their career:
Career (N): To descend downhill, out of control!!
So why send out a 12-page glossy brochure when I can read it on-line? I thought the MoD was short of money? No bl00dy wonder if the Agencies that it employs (PMA in this case) waste cash like this! Good to see that 'front line first' is still working!!
Still, Page 3, para 4 is interesting - not many of us given the freedom to do that as the higher-ups are too afraid for their career:
Career (N): To descend downhill, out of control!!
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think it will only work on the internal system, not the Internet. I'll find it and post a better link. Or you are welcome to my glossy copy!
think it will only work on the internal system, not the Internet. I'll find it and post a better link. Or you are welcome to my glossy copy!
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Probably as cost effective as the two copies of the same feckin RAF cd most of us recieved about 4 years ago. Huge financial "pork up" that I bet no blunt b@stard lost his job over
...........however put a an extra breakfast on the hotel bill and the wrath of "Handbrake House" will descend upon you...................strokers
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...........however put a an extra breakfast on the hotel bill and the wrath of "Handbrake House" will descend upon you...................strokers all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced
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Haven't received one yet - though when I spotted it on a mates desk he made the useful observation that I no longer had a career merely a long series of jobs ahead of me!
A large number of copies of this arrived through the internal mail up here at a secret Lincolnshire air base. Most went straight in the bin, a few are lounging on the coffee bar, unread. I cannot believe that Binnsworth could afford to:
A. Send an individual copy to every officer.
B. Place each and every copy in an envelope.
C. Individually label them.
Is anybody from Innsworth willing to state just how much this has cost the RAF?
And whether they believe it is money well spent? Particularly as The Sunday Times last weekend reported the potential closure of 7 RAF bases and the entire Jag force!! A large number of redundancies and an RAF of about 38000 personnel.
When will we stop spending money on Management B0**0X spawned from some MBA or other, rather than concentrating on what we are (were?
) good at!!!
A. Send an individual copy to every officer.
B. Place each and every copy in an envelope.
C. Individually label them.
Is anybody from Innsworth willing to state just how much this has cost the RAF?
And whether they believe it is money well spent? Particularly as The Sunday Times last weekend reported the potential closure of 7 RAF bases and the entire Jag force!! A large number of redundancies and an RAF of about 38000 personnel.
When will we stop spending money on Management B0**0X spawned from some MBA or other, rather than concentrating on what we are (were?
) good at!!!
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At least if you guys downsize to the figures quoted recently it won't cost as much to send you all the glossies. 
You are not alone. In the RN we get sent a multitude of glossy "personnel" type stuff that only goes the further some pen pusher's career and is a complete waste of money. I also am forever being sent those "working time directive" studies where you annotate what you were doing every hour of every day for a week. Luckily the last 2 times I got it I was on leave so it was very easy to fill and send back.
You are not alone. In the RN we get sent a multitude of glossy "personnel" type stuff that only goes the further some pen pusher's career and is a complete waste of money. I also am forever being sent those "working time directive" studies where you annotate what you were doing every hour of every day for a week. Luckily the last 2 times I got it I was on leave so it was very easy to fill and send back.
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'We haven't received the mission statement from your department yet, despite several reminders...'
'Correct!'
'Will you please have it on my desk by 1000 tomorrow...'
'No!'
'What do you mean, NO?'
'I mean, tomorrow I will be on terminal leave and have no intention of subscribing to this crazy, time-wasting, useless, management bullsh*t!'
'We can soon cancel your terminal leave...'
'Go ahead, see you in court!'
Click!
Terminal leave was so much sweeter...
'Correct!'
'Will you please have it on my desk by 1000 tomorrow...'
'No!'
'What do you mean, NO?'
'I mean, tomorrow I will be on terminal leave and have no intention of subscribing to this crazy, time-wasting, useless, management bullsh*t!'
'We can soon cancel your terminal leave...'
'Go ahead, see you in court!'
Click!
Terminal leave was so much sweeter...
A pity that "The Officers' Career Management Strategy" wasn't printed on absorbent paper. At least then it would have had one purpose in life... 
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Excellent!! However, you should realise that the Performance Indicator will now suffer. And by the way, the fitness test and CCS results for 2003 were dumped by the SAMA (again) and nobody can go on leave or detachment until they are current. Please let us know when you have arranged an appoitment with the Gym and Regt Flt. Trust you enjoyed your terminal leave.
Excellent!! However, you should realise that the Performance Indicator will now suffer. And by the way, the fitness test and CCS results for 2003 were dumped by the SAMA (again) and nobody can go on leave or detachment until they are current. Please let us know when you have arranged an appoitment with the Gym and Regt Flt. Trust you enjoyed your terminal leave.
No doubt you'll get a reminder from the RMC telling you that your annual medical is overdue after you've finished terminal leave? I did - and told them that I wasn't going to bother; if they wanted to discuss it, they could ring me at home....
I then asked them why they'd bothered with both a release medical and signing my clearance chit some months earlier!
I then asked them why they'd bothered with both a release medical and signing my clearance chit some months earlier!
Beags,
Similar experience here - I had my final medical overseas, carried out by an Army medic (no aviation medicine doc available, despite the host country paying through the nose for one in the Loan Service Agreement). He filled in the RAF bumf that I'd been sent by my parent unit. Finished Loan Service, returned to the UK and cleared from Uxbridge. Shouldn't really have been surprised when the civvy doc at Uxbridge wrote back a few weeks after I'd started my new job telling me that the paperwork hadn't been signed-off properly and would I please return to Uxbridge for an appointment. When I mentioned that I would cheerfully pitch up so long as the RAF paid my travel expenses from Devon, my hotel fees and my costs for a day's missed employment out in the real world, it quickly appeared that my docs were in fact in order and they wouldn't need to trouble me further.
Similar experience here - I had my final medical overseas, carried out by an Army medic (no aviation medicine doc available, despite the host country paying through the nose for one in the Loan Service Agreement). He filled in the RAF bumf that I'd been sent by my parent unit. Finished Loan Service, returned to the UK and cleared from Uxbridge. Shouldn't really have been surprised when the civvy doc at Uxbridge wrote back a few weeks after I'd started my new job telling me that the paperwork hadn't been signed-off properly and would I please return to Uxbridge for an appointment. When I mentioned that I would cheerfully pitch up so long as the RAF paid my travel expenses from Devon, my hotel fees and my costs for a day's missed employment out in the real world, it quickly appeared that my docs were in fact in order and they wouldn't need to trouble me further.
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CC "A pity that "The Officers' Career Management Strategy" wasn't printed on absorbent paper. At least then it would have had one purpose in life... "
BEagle - I agree, however surely morale would be improved even more by providing proper toilet paper? I recommend using Hutton brand bog role myself: its soft, strong and better at covering up bull?@%* than the OCMS which being so transparent and thin on substance isn't much good for anything!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
BEagle - I agree, however surely morale would be improved even more by providing proper toilet paper? I recommend using Hutton brand bog role myself: its soft, strong and better at covering up bull?@%* than the OCMS which being so transparent and thin on substance isn't much good for anything!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
