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EightFlyingCars posted:i had the weirdest compulsion to check out joining the forces today. does canada want a reasonably fit homemaker with a college degree or are they just gonna tell me to gently caress off? They will definitely not tell you to gently caress off
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My Spirit Otter posted:how willing to move is your family? depending on your trade, officers can get posted frequently i don't think my partner would want to move. i was thinking of joining as a reservist anyway, and i was under the impression that they're more likely to stay posted locally because of the part-time nature of their work. is that correct? would that even be worthwhile? it sounds like i'd be a moron to not apply as an officer. i've talked with friends about the possibility of seeing a recruiter and they were pretty cold on the idea. one of them has a brother who got his hearing hosed up during gun drills because of improper hearing protection and getting compensated for that was a nightmare. but the same thing happened to my mom while she was in the US army, so i kinda feel like the risk of injury kinda comes with the territory of joining up. though i'd much rather not go deaf or get otherwise crippled if i can help it! what's the safety culture like in the forces these days?
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You're technically not "posted" anywhere as a reservist, especially after you're trade-qualified. Places have positions that are designated for reservists and you apply for those jobs. If they select you you're offered a contract for an amount of time. A lot of reservists are "Class A" most of the time meaning they work only evenings and weekends and occasionally you might get weeks or months of employment elsewhere.
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i dont understand why theyre trying to hire more officers, theres like a 2:1 officer ncm ratio at my base and we're desperate for ncms. i can basically do whatever i want because they cant risk losing ncms
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I should throw an application in again for ROTP, just for the hell of it. Ain't got nothing to lose. Take my 40 year old broken rear end, my King.
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flakeloaf posted:They will definitely not tell you to gently caress off
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I'd make a good atis tech but I'm no more willing to do a plq now at 46 than they were to send me on one at... yeah it's been a long time. I like the job I have now.
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Yeah same, I own my place in an awesome city and I am sure as poo poo not trading that for a barracks in St. Jean
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In Nov 23, I interviewed to VOT to a PRes officer position that I applied for in May 22. In the interview, I was told to expect a decision in 4-6 weeks. I think I might hear back in 4-6 months.
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probably not until the new fiscal year at least
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My certificate of service and service pin finally caught up with me, not quite six and a half years since I released. I gather the Departure with Dignity component of the release process was incomplete for thousands of people; I feel for the clerks who've had to reach out to folks years after the fact and try to conclude paperwork that is years past due and in all likelihood whose memories of their time in the CF are not as fond as mine. I'd imagine they catch no small amount of hell for something that is not their fault, but they get to be the face of an institutional failing and it is on them that the poo poo lands.
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Unlike the Veteran Service Cards ![]() Actually they might be sub-par now...
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i still havent gotten my certificate of service from '12
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Unlike the Veteran Service Cards Hell yeah, thanks again man ![]()
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that vet service card gets me some OK discounts so it's worth it. 30% at Under Armor, 10% at lululemon/MEC
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I just found out that MEC isn't a coop anymore and now I'm destroyed.
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Hizawk posted:I just found out that MEC isn't a coop anymore and now I'm destroyed. Yeah they got bought out in 2021, I think?
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MEC broke in like 2011 when they changed the board election structure so that they had a board recommended slate and qualification requirements to run. It had already moved towards the big box outdoor retail store model but really started sprinting then. Regular members couldn't get on the board, so the democratic part of the structure broke because without that there really isn't a voice. There was no way to affect the ideology of the board, effectively, and that's the only power membership theoretically had in that type of coop structure if the board doesn't otherwise engage. They moved into the mass biking and skiing market for some reason, even though those have both always been heavily serviced by locally owned stores. There was lots more leisure types of stuff. They started manufacturing or contracting branded products that already had alternate stuff available. The total number of products hugely increased, mostly in mainstream stuff, instead of having a few good products for otherwise available things and larger selection in specialty stuff. They expanded in ways that maybe make sense if you're trying to maximize profit but not if you're just trying to be a sustainable organization. Even with a pandemic, it's insane that a co-op that old should have had so much debt on the books that it had apparently zero value when sold. They had heavily leveraged in the years coming up to COVID to 'grow the business'. The whole point of structures like co-ops is that you can putter along happily doing the poo poo that actually helps the membership without having to do everything. It's also completely insane that a co-op didn't have member meetings in the lead up to bankruptcy that the board presumably must have known was coming. They announced that it was sold at the same time they announced bankruptcy, which is crazy. That whole year they were also fighting staff unionization, which was loving garbage. Not in a 'don't unionize, we are on the verge of bankruptcy' way (which would still be terrible). They were trying to invalidate votes. It feels like because it was a co-op the board didn't get held to having a fiduciary duty to anyone during the collapse. They acted like their duty was to the ongoing operations of the retail organization rather than to the membership. T.C. fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/defence-canadian-forces-training-budget-cuts-1.7190796quote:The army is no longer requiring that troops headed for deployment in Eastern Europe take part in a major qualifying exercise at the base in Wainwright, Alta., the department said in a media statement issued after CBC News asked questions. Canuck-Errant posted:Maple
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man, traffic techs in wainwright will officially be doing nothing now
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My Spirit Otter posted:man, traffic techs in wainwright will officially be doing nothing now You make it sound like they were doing something before. gently caress Wainwright
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MA-Horus posted:You make it sound like they were doing something before. they were for two weeks of the year!
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Not sure if it's of interest to anyone here, but tomorrow kicks off a chain of Airshows / Armed Forces Days in celebration of the RCAF's 100th year. It's happening coast-to-coast, starting in Comox, BC, with an expected turnout of 20,000 attendees. The Snowturkeys will mostly be matching that schedule, with some detours for flybys and stuff. When I first joined the CAF, some of the first work I did was at the 2005 Airshow in Comox, so I'm looking forward to the nostalgic reminders of being a clueless OCdt fresh off of basic trying to not get yelled at. Edit: I guess we have a CF-18 demo team too, I don't know when that happened. mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 17, 2024 |
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MA-Horus posted:that vet service card gets me some OK discounts so it's worth it. 30% at Under Armor, 10% at lululemon/MEC Free checked bags on AC and WestJet and getting to use the express security line is better than any store discount imo
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Hold on, getting to what
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Mil ID lets you use the trusted travelers lane
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its true, ive blasted through security at pearson on the way home and that only compounded the joy i was feeling from leaving borden
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Mil ID lets you use the trusted travelers lane Yeah, but that's only for serving CF personnel isn't it? I was through Pearson a couple of weeks ago and I got the impression from the signage that the veteran's ID doesn't count.
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worst they can do is tell you to go to ther line, so id risk it
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i mean gently caress just get a NEXUS card, they're relatively cheap and very much worth it.
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The hard part of getting a NEXUS card is getting the interview
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it's much easier now, they had a huge backlog thru COVID.
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'Large proportion' of military disliked relaxed rules on personal grooming, survey findsquote:Nearly half (44.2 per cent) of the CAF members surveyed disagreed with the suggestion that the new regulations were good for the military, while roughly one third (33.4 per cent) were in favour. lmao
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all those 10" long pube beards and mullets had to go
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If you do a good job I never really cared, and that's still my policy. And if you do a bad job, I'll correct you on your mistakes until you do a good job.
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same, but no fatties and no pube beards
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I like how that article just uncritically trots out Michel Maisonneuve quotes
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lmao, i just got a random weekend duty shift the day after submitting my release, weird
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Don't worry everyone, if you're like me and didn't read Duty with Honour twenty years ago, I found the electronic version. No need to thank me. I didn't know the 2009 version was three times as big. ![]()
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