So whos john?
… you have / had a mess?!
#jealous.
It was an ironic name, it was just a large room which wasn’t useable for drill, as it had a very uneven carpeted floor, no teaching aids like a projector, so it was mainly used as a cadet mess/archery range.
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Still a spare room is always good.
Wish I had one.
Just the standard of my office, staff office, hall, 2 classrooms, store, toilets and micro kitchen here.
Identikit unit.
Ours is a bit unique. It has a lot of rather difficult sized rooms, some tiny, some huge, and not a lot of storage space now.
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A group called Probus approached me about using the hall for meetings while their usual place was being refurbed. I pushed them RFCAs way. They never bothered as RFCA wanted £30/hr, which when you consider they were using and moved back to using the backroom of a pub for free, was a bit steep, when all they’d get was a few tables, chairs, access to bogs and kitchen.
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That’s helpful to know.
On our new hire agreement in our new premises we have no permanent, sole use space… at all.
The Squadron runs from staff car boots.
It is really difficult, but we manage. Would not suggest it as a way forward though. It makes everything 10 times harder.
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Wonder what would happen if the staff (quite reasonably) refused?
Sort of tangential, but the alternative venues people in our RFCA have been super helpful putting us in touch with local army reserve units so we can use their buildings when they don’t need them.
Worth asking around if you’re ever in need of more space and have Reserve units nearby.
They told us what would happen - we’d close down.
It was hard enough fighting for the venue change. So we decided we weren’t ready to give up just yet.
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How does that work with data security?
With the removal of paper 3822As there’s actually little personal data that we keep in paper form now that has to be ‘locked away’ so can’t really see it being an issue.
I was going to say - we leave no trace, everything is electronic - there are no problems with data security… Lots of other problems, but that isn’t one.
that depends on the hardware being used. (e.g. for work, we have to declare that our personal devices have an encrypted harddrive if we access any work material - even logging into webmail)
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Just because it’s electronic doesn’t mean you don’t need to secure the computer equipment. Lawyers have got into trouble when laptops have been stolen from their car and not encrypted so client data becomes vulnerable
But those risks effect every squadron, not just GoodEggs. I’ve had a WSO use his personal phone’s camera to get copies of by ID for BPSS for exmple.
oh yeh, absolutely. I’m utterly surprised there’s not more of a stance around it from HQAC
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Well, technically there is. Policy says no personal data should be stored on personal use devices. But that is very often ignored. Plus even storing it on a squadron laptop is no safer unless it’s actually got encryption enabled…
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