Simian Turner said:
The not so nice thing about printed drafts from subordinates on which you have made suggested changes is that in the case of a NDHQ redress investigation, you must produce them, be prepared to defend your changes and confirm that the member was counselled accordingly. From experience, drafts once forwarded up the chain of command and reviewed are legitimate documents and subject to the ATIP.
Absolutely agreed.
Here's the issue:
We lowly types begin the process ~ Feb ... a draft PER. It is not submitted, nor is it final. It is a DRAFT. It is subject to change based upon any mitigating or changing factors in the members performance UNTIL 31 March. By the last week of March, our troops' PERs are usually pretty bang-on and unless troop X fucks up severely in that last week, there will probably be no more change to it.
Why the hell, then, does it take until end-May for those PERs to come back DOWN to us from the powers that be so that we can debrief our troops and have them signed? They've had them for months!! Don't tell me that they need to be reviewed or re-written by some Officer type with a Masters in English who feels the need to change out the writing to 15 letter words that no one but his own co-graduates understand. It`s happened. It`s also resulted in all the PERs being put back to their original forms by us down here doing the business and seeing with our own actual eyes-on the business getting done.
Branch Boards? Base Boards? They sure as heck shouldn't take 3 months either. A little proper planning and Org would solve that - the same thing happens each and every year after all. Perhaps, the problem actually is that there's too many people involved AFTER the Unit level who think that 1 June is just an arbitrary date and that "they aren't really needed until the fall".
PERs are supposed to BE in Ottawa (signed!) by 01 June. Period. That's the rule and it exists for a reason. It is
only the troops who get fucked when that doesn't happen. Perhaps that's an issue too that it is only the troops who suffer the ill-effects of this. Maybe it's time to start holding the higher CoC responsable when on June 1st, "Unit X has not submitted their UIC PERs" leads to an answer of "Well, we have to hold them because we are still missing 18 PERs that the Comd (or other) is still reviewing (or hasn't gotten around to signing yet) before we can submit UIC return."
This failure of the CoC to act within the directed time period in an effecient manner that ensures "signed" PERs arrive at NDHQ by 1 June results in no implications for themselves, but, rather ironicly, affects only the career of the troop that PER is written for.
"Geez, where's the incentive to get them done on time and to Ottawa by June 1st as it affects "me" not??"