Don’t… Give… Her… Ideas
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Not seen any senior RAFAC people do that.
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And risk another Cheese gate???
No. An IBN would’ve been more appropriate. Maybe with a bio…
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Probably safe. The “fromage fan” has now left CCF and her contingent closed (not related to said dairy based incident)
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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.
Plenty here will take this as confirmation bias, but he’s talking about how his Twitter has gone crazy off the back of the announcement
the technical reason why this is bad, with some rounding:
let’s say the document is 100 kb
there are approx 250 email addresses per wing * 5.5 wings * 6 regions
unknown number of ‘extras’: SATTs, SPOs, Rgn posts, TDT, etc: estimate: 250 total
= 8500 email addresses
8500 * 100 kb = 850000 kb = 850 mb
And we all know some RCs / WExOs would forward it on blindly - that’s easily a Gb of space used
Storage is not free (or even that cheap, at infrastructure level).
The reason that things like Sharepoint / OneDrive / Dropbox exist is so that only 1 copy of the file ever needs to exist (when necessary), and to reduce the burden on space
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Yeah, as if twitter is important.
He should be looking at that thinking, oh my (dear) the only way these people get information is via SM… need to change that.
But instead he seems to think this is great.
I have deliberately set low expectations of him to prevent disappointment yet I am deeply disapointed already.
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Yeah ok. So why wasnt it announced on sharepoint with a link to a sharepoint document.
All to satisfy these idiots SM desires, thats why.
There are 2 different issues:
- announcements shouldn’t be SM first: see my comment above: New Commandant
- announcements should use the correct tools. Attaching a doc to an email is not the correct tool
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So the news got out on Twitter. Do I care? No not really. Am I on Twitter? No. Does it change anything I’m doing for the Cadets at the moment? No? Does it surprise me? No.
I wonder though if the new Boss’ previous involvement with the MAA will be of benefit…
Something about Fake News and don’t just believe what you see on Social Media 
