Recent content by Navy_Pete

Would be interesting to see a parallel from this from 1964- now, where we had a period of cold war build up then back to repeating most of what is above. Those themes have been consistent for my almost 20 years and only been getting worse over time, with no improvement in sight. The personnel...

I was a NCdt working with Army cadets out there for the adventure camp, so was strange for sure. Beautiful spot, and I'd love to get back out there for a vacation, but not somewhere I'd want to work for more than a temp deployment personally. As I've gotten older I dislike winters more, and...

I spent six weeks working in Whitehorse and was called a babykiller 3 times. I think even with improvements and incentives it would be awful for most, as it's a very niche place to live. I think the population listed is also the summer population and it's actually less than that. If people...

Case by case it makes sense, but why we currently have someone working from PEI, and why we'd be happy to have someone in Esq and Halifax. It's cheaper to bring them in on TD for training courses, and for an already black trade if we can make someone's life easier that's great. Some things are a...

Examples like this is actually the best reason to have CAF members included in the policy side of things, and why we should actually encourage more remote work so you can get someone parachuted in from a front line unit location to bring that viewpoint in. I don't even mean hybrid; I mean fully...

Fair enough, but is that not more of an underlying corporate HR policy issue that was only really exposed by some people screwing the pooch? It seems like WFH is having a really good benefit for at least half the staff, so a fairly reasonable example of where 'one size fits all' is really...

Yeah, I get it; I would hate that too, but I guess it would be a referred anger at the general state of things. The flipside is when I get an HPR, chase down an OPDEF/PREQ and can't do anything about it, at least in WFH I can quietly hold my head in my hands for a bit before marshalling the...

Interesting article, but it's always a challenge to measure employee productivity in knowledge based jobs (especially when you aren't making widgets). I generally put in more hours WFH compared to WFO, and am able to adjust my schedule at short notice to support people in Halifax/Esquimalt...

I get that, and have had the same from both the ship side and within Ottawa, but that's really nothing to do with the merits of hybrid work vice working in the office (and there are still plenty of people on the coasts doing hybrid work, which makes sense for the jobs). The same people that...

Don't worry, they are looking at forcing all military members back to the office 5 days a week, regardless of what your job is and how successful remote work is, so the next CDS can look forward to a lot of pissed off people that have arbitrarily lost a benefit because someone with a corner...

It's sort of both; the hulls, piping and other basics are in bad shape, but we have thousands of obsolete widgets, sub systems and major systems that are at end of life and not supported by the OEMs. We replaced the DGs on the CPFs because there were only 54 left in operation in the world (12...

The NSS specifically rules out the 3 yards from ships over 1000 tonnes, so call me cynical why there are lobbyists 'recommending' Canada look at something in the 1500-2000 tonne range. The beauty of the MCDVs is they are small and cheap to operate while providing some capability without needing...

Aside from hosting the reserve units and usually some cadet squads, aren't those usually also part of various emergency response plans for the areas? Not a whole lot of places where you can quarter a lot of people in short notice, and thought they had some folks sleeping there for the wildfire...

Not sure if it's helpful, but found out last year you can add 'intermediary reviewers' so that it's not going from the author all the way up the chain to the RO (potentially skipping most of the CoC). That was something the Pace manager could add on, but may have been a unit thing where they...

The story was updated about a month ago that the charges were dropped against both members, and just against DND still. Seems a lot like ivory tower prosecution from someone down south, but good news for both the CAF folks.