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Not really, most of it is a necessary evil, but if you are expecting people to be doing the 100% tech work all the time then it makes no sense why the PM/CM numbers aren't higher. And if you are using 100% marker to size your external shore support, you way underestimate SS capacity. There are...

DRMIS, duty watches, escorts to RF, secondary duties etc etc. Some things are probably just the nature of living where you work, so cleaning stations isn't really optional, but there are a lot of things that only require a warm body that the ships provide people to support. Sometimes you get...

Man, 40 odd checks to a UPS mailbox for $100M total. Meanwhile our $500 travel has 4 approval gates and multiple oversight levels for booking and finalizing the claim. There has to be a happy medium somewhere.

From what I understand, the CSE trade structure itself may go out the window with CSC and AEGIS, and may result in a lot of the positions merged with operators. There seem to still be some dedicated techs left, but they would be a lot more specialized then what they are now, and be system...

I know this is a big thing for a lot of people; the pay increases with promotion are minimal, and the type of work can change significantly. I would happily put in a PAR exemption if I didn't think I'd get a punishment posting and a shunning. If pay or additional responsibility are a motivator...

You can live with low recruitment if you have high retention, and enough training capacity (formal, OJT, mentoring whatever) to keep people filling in jobs as folks retire/move on, while keeping the amount of work steady. We've had a sustained low recruitment numbers, while having sustained...

Sure, but also recognize progress. Despite the numbers, I think we have progressed a lot on the culture change side of things, but pretty demoralizing to keep getting kicked in the face. If people try, and the goalposts keep moving while you criticize them for not doing better, eventually people...

Sure, but some trades have a 3-5 year lead time before you are a qualified journeyman, and 10ish years before you are a competent in more senior roles, or sometimes longer to develop some niche specialist skills. Discounting that across the board with a one size fits all short stint would be...

Ah, thanks, I thought they were using 2021 as a comparison vice 2018, as the article implied it had doubled from the previous year. The numbers are bad for sure, but it's also a very subjective survey so really difficult to understand what it means in real terms. It's a bit hard to say if it's...

The previous surveys were also during lockdown so a lot of people WFH or very limited social interactions out of the workplace. Not that it's great, but the new numbers are still slightly below the Canadian population, with better reporting. So maybe that is a reasonable (but unfortunate)...

I don't really have any ideas anymore; I think I'll try and focus on what I can actually do and let other folks worry about it. Have suggested slowing down the opsched, parking ships, perhaps manning them properly and repairing the basic things like leaking firemains, hot and cold water etc on...

Much simpler equipment, plus a massive investment in training infrastructure, schools etc. Wasn't really referring to infantry though, as that's probably one that is the least complicated to surge to a wartime footing. Because we aren't in a wartime footing and aren't even getting peacetime...

Those are good points, although I would also argue the CAF can't use general market labour attrition rates as a bench mark for what acceptable retention rates looks like. Off the top of my head I can't think of another organization in Canada with 50-60k people who don't have competitors or...

Yeah, that was always my general SOP, but I guess I had never really thought about spouse swapping, group sex parties and some other more flexible partnerings in that equation. Maybe add an asterix and some fine print? Not really something that is in the divisional guide for some handy hints on...

lol, there was an equivalent of that in Shannon Park in Halifax (before it looked like a zombie prop, and then became an actual zombie prop for a while). Tide boxes maybe? Some kind of cereal? It was an era I happily missed so was more of a local myth at that point, but I think there were enough...

I don't know, I needed a flow chart to try and keep track of one of the various lines of fraternization on the go at a friend's unit. I also learned what a 'bowl party' was. It apparently came to a head because of an outbreak of STDs in the unit (and spouses). It may be consensual, but sleeping...

If the are going to use sexual misconduct for things that are crimes, they really need to use a different term for non-criminal things. The things they are calling 'sexual misconduct' here seem to be various forms of sexual assault and rape., where in other cases they will lump in things like...

Along the overcrowded ER lines; workers on strike due to burnout and overwork, ER at 178%, two people died. Noted below it says specifically the strike didn't impact the ER staff levels, but did mean the 811 call center for non emergency health had less staff and long wait times...

I don't know if they changed it, but years ago I was on a relatively big project (~$100M) and we were one of the first to go through the replacement for IRBs (Value Proposition). Some of the points on that revolved around creating new work in Canada, with extra points for Small and Medium...

Biden might be as well, but so far the people out to get him haven't actually put any evidence in the impeachment trial, and their attempts so far have been, poor. They have a shit tonne of actual evidence already out on Trump as well, all of which you dismiss out of hand. No, I don't like...