A Sgt disliked at by cadets for being arrogant, undermining other NCO’s and a bad NCO promoted by the CO for finishing his classifications when other Sgt’s are more deserving with other staff admitting this.
Any suggestions for what the other NCO’s can do as he can get out of control and damage morale causing already low numbers to decrease?
Realistically?
I don’t suppose there is any mileage in the other NCOs chatting to the new FS man-to-man, perhaps outside the ACO environment, and trying to come to some kind of arrangement?
Dear Sea Harrier,
This sort of thing happens every now and again, the best advice I have for you is an old saying. “Give someone enough rope and they will soon hang themselves”. If this F/Sgt is as bad as you think and say, then there is nothing wrong with the other NCO’ calling a meeting with said F/Sgt and discussing the issues. If this does not sort it out, pass it up the chain starting with one of the Adult Sgt’. The Sqn CO will be interested in the smooth running of the Sqn (or should be). Be careful if approaching the CO as they appointed the F/Sgt and it could be seen as a criticism. Keep to facts and known instances, do not let emotion get in the way and cloud the facts. Good luck. Gazza.
Incy has pretty well nailed it. Life is unfair sometimes.
On occasion we’ve promoted people and I’ve heard cadets griping that so-and-so shouldn’t have been promoted because of this or that. Most of the time they don’t really appreciate the situation. There has always been a good reason for promoting someone even if the other cadets don’t always like it.
This NCO, whilst perhaps not everyone’s favourite, might be quite effective.
Nothing will wind up an OC quite like having a disgruntled NCO complain to them about their choices for promotion. Regardless of the reality it almost always comes across as a being sore loser.
Unless they’ve broken the rules you’re not going to get this person demoted, so your options are:
Staff telling cadets that they agree that so-and-so shouldn’t have been promoted is a whole other issue…
As I say to people one of the Corps’ aims is to provide training for life.
Believe me if you’re going to chuck your toys over somethiing like this, then you are going to have loads and loads and loads of fun at work.
As said you have 2 options leave or suck it in. If you take this mindset / atttude into the real world, these will be your options at work and option 1 is not something to consider lightly. You would only do it if you had somewhere else to go.