turns out i was wrong…
I saw on Facebook first, of the Twitter post by Dawn - moments later someone shared a different Twitter post into a WhatsApp group.
I have heard (from someone with HQ Media links) that Dawn did jump the gun on the announcement…!
I have now heard “officially” as our Wing Commander has indicated “its all over SM so some may have seen that…”
Nothing on Sharepoint though
Well I hope his first directive is no announcements etc via SM (email & S/point only) and anyone who does can sod off and or collect their P45.
I made a mistake and thought the current one would be good, based on her RAF Families work, a couple of years in and it was waiting for her to go. Mind you a bloke I met at a RAFA do made a comment of “god help the ATC”, after having seen her in action
I suppose we should be glad we haven’t got an adminner unlike the last 2 and you hope that some of the practical non-prescribed fudge and bodge, that’ll do the trick of the tradesman’s world comes into the ATC at the top and the shackles get loosened a bit.
I’m not holding out much hope seeing his post today showing his Twitter engagement analytics. And the interview above which made much of his “total safety day” (stand by for more H&S nonsense) and him steering Wittering’s most successful social media engagement.
I guess going in with low expectations is better, less chance of being disappointed
Wasn’t that more aimed at convincing the locals to be on board with the Chinook deployment? Having once (randomly) been on the receiving end of an earful from a member of the public about a low flying Chinook, I can see why a decent hearts and minds campaign would be worthwhile.
Having spoken to people in the public eye, they say they have to do SM and update it almost constantly, otherwise people ask what they are up to. My MP has said SM is the one thing that makes being an MP a real bind. You expect all the hullaballoo and so on, but some of the things that come through especially on twitter won’t be missed.
I guess what frustrates some people is the “SM first” mentality.
I think it would be odd, these days, if SM wasn’t heavily used - but I agree that official announcements should be on an official comms channel (email, sharepoint) first - or at least at the same time
Maybe Dawn should now just do every announcement until the end of her tenure on tiktok… 
Don’t… Give… Her… Ideas
Jeez. Give the guy a chance. Less than 24 hours from announcement and people are already writing home off!
Hd of A4 gives good insight into Logs. Engineer background so will be interested in STEM and opportunities in that area.
Might not be from the mighty airborne brigade but has no doubt had involvement with flying aspects.
Let’s see where we are after 12 to 24 months.
And do so with an interpretive dance.
Unfortunately the current one and predecessor compared to the previous ones, even some of the sunset job mob, have been a massive disappointment.
My hope will be as I said some of the thinking on your feet mentality that you find in practical trades is allowed to take root in the ATC. We have been too prescriptive and hog tied by form filling for too long.
I would like to say I’m surprised that I found out on here before anything official, but sadly I’m not.
To do it during volunteers week like this really makes me angry. All the work by the VSDT, Regional Commandant North to make lasting and effective change to get the organisation better at working with the ground level and then Dawn just ignores everything and posts it herself. It really makes me mad.
What other organisation, especially one of this size, would send out a 140 character tweet to announce a new “CEO” without at least informing the current members first? The answer is none. No one would be that stupid to think that you can just throw a short sentence into the ether, with no substance, style or further information, and get away with it.
Either the current commandant is deluded to the point of insanity or genuinely trying to annoy us.
I’ve held off posting this, especially in an open forum, as I’ve been trying to think of a positive about it. Sadly all I can come up with is that it’s only a few months until hopefully a new broom sweeps clean.
The sycophants that have already started the invitations to the new boss, the ego inflating and the “look at me” posts are also cringeworthy.
I remember looking back with optimism 8 years ago thinking “wow, we’ll get a commandant that will last longer than 2 years. Finally, someone who can make effective and long lasting change”. I was right in one sense I suppose, there has been long lasting change. But it does make me miss the old status quo of a 2 year posting.
I would of atleast expected an all RAFAC email on the day to say
This is new commandant and here is the script and standard you must use on social media, briefing cadets etc
I’m willing to give him a chance, I’m just setting my expectations low as everytime I go positive with change in this organisation I’m disappointed.
Do the management think we’re all on SM, hanging on their every word and waiting to see what banality they tell us about their day. I wouldn’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t take photos of meals and put them out there, like I have witnessed when I’ve been out for meals.
Seconded.
He has been Station Commander at Wittering, so will no doubt be very aware of the 5 AEF debacle (and hopefully the other issues around AEF flying), and is also an ex-cadet.
Not seen any senior RAFAC people do that.
And risk another Cheese gate???
No. An IBN would’ve been more appropriate. Maybe with a bio…
Probably safe. The “fromage fan” has now left CCF and her contingent closed (not related to said dairy based incident)
We get company wide emails when it is something important. They moved away from the nonsense of cascading things a few years ago to avoid delays, mixed messages and additional bits. When things were cascaded it was normally just ‘here you go’ from the next level up.
Even if it were an IBN just attach doc and send to all, save faffing around with s/point.