Morale
Best morale booster I had at HQ 1 Gp when our staff was cut again, but not the workload, was my 1 Star telling me not to work harder, but to work smarter. I hated to mention to him that what he saw was as smart as I get.
On a miserable day on 85 Squadron at West Raynham in the early 1970s we used to shout "More beer, longer runways, bigger women". That seemed to cheer people up, albeit briefly.
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Not allowed to serve alcohol during the day?? 
Blimey, you could even get the stuff when you were in a military hospital And that was as a patient!
Blimey, you could even get the stuff when you were in a military hospital And that was as a patient!
Indeed.
A can of Guinness each was handed out by the nurses after doctors's rounds at 11am - even to a 16 year old cadet like me.
Nurses, Guinness...repeat for rest of life!
A can of Guinness each was handed out by the nurses after doctors's rounds at 11am - even to a 16 year old cadet like me.
Nurses, Guinness...repeat for rest of life!
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Sounds like the Death Knell for the Royal Navy then
With todays anti social view and the ban on smoking in Company Vehicles..
Remove the RUM and TOBACCO ... And all you are left with is BUM.
No wonder Morale is so low..
With todays anti social view and the ban on smoking in Company Vehicles..
Remove the RUM and TOBACCO ... And all you are left with is BUM.
No wonder Morale is so low..
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Remove the RUM and TOBACCO ... And all you are left with is BUM.
Not allowed to serve alcohol during the day??
Whilst we were sipping Coca-Cola or something equally boring in the OM bar, the wonderful and much-loved Gp Capt 'Auntie' Joan Hopkins, Neat's Stn Cdr entered with a couple weasel-featured 'suits' from 11Gp in tow, who'd made it to the wilds of Norfolk without being buggered too savagely by the local six-fingered inbreds.
"Beer?" she asked her guest.... "Err, well, if it's OK, ma'am" came the feeble response. "3 pints please" asked Joan, "Well, what do you think of it?". "Err, very nice, ma'am". "It is, isn't it! Of course it's non-alcoholic, but I tasked the bar officer to find the very best he could, now that we're not allowed real beer at lunchtime any more!"
Point made in her own inimitable style!
Nutloose/Fox3-remember well a bottle of Guinness a day for the three weeks (THREEWEEKS!) I was in RAFH Ely after a cartilege operation. But only for othopaedic patientsts, not the same for surgery or medical patients - none when I had my tonsilectomy.
but surely, with time off to watch the Olympics and five star Vegas hotels with 'hot chicks' to recover from all that secondary jock strapping, morale should be at an all time high?
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Reasons why working for MacDonalds is better than the RAF
1. Better uniform
2. More medals and people respect them as they show you can do your job
3. Free food, properly cooked
4. Promotion on ability
5. The average MacDonalds is in the middle of town, not in the middle of nowhere
6. When children have tantrums, it is because they are under the age of 12
7. MacDonalds do not pretend they are investing in people
8. Superior supply system
9. Sh*gg*ng the manageress is not a crime
10. Only the customer is called sir
11. You can leg it to Burger King at a minutes notice
12. Ronald MacDonald has the decency to smile whilst shafting you
13. You wont have to do door guard
14. There is no MacDonalds in the Falklands
15. MacDonalds only has one clown
Reasons why working for MacDonalds is better than the RAF
1. Better uniform
2. More medals and people respect them as they show you can do your job
3. Free food, properly cooked
4. Promotion on ability
5. The average MacDonalds is in the middle of town, not in the middle of nowhere
6. When children have tantrums, it is because they are under the age of 12
7. MacDonalds do not pretend they are investing in people
8. Superior supply system
9. Sh*gg*ng the manageress is not a crime
10. Only the customer is called sir
11. You can leg it to Burger King at a minutes notice
12. Ronald MacDonald has the decency to smile whilst shafting you
13. You wont have to do door guard
14. There is no MacDonalds in the Falklands
15. MacDonalds only has one clown
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But it's not as bad as 84, because they have got rid of most of the people in the Forces.... Hence it must have improved.
Less people = less people with low Morale..
Less people = less people with low Morale..
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Dead easy in the electronic age.
Any email in the TFD category - DELETE.
Any email received while on leave - DELETE.
Any email in the easy category from the same sender as TFD - DELETE.
Any email that is easy, forward.
If it is important they will send again.
Any email in the TFD category - DELETE.
Any email received while on leave - DELETE.
Any email in the easy category from the same sender as TFD - DELETE.
Any email that is easy, forward.
If it is important they will send again.