It’s one thing to have a whinge, or to inject some humour through one of these newfangled pictorial meme things that are popular with the modern youth, but to blatantly misspell “complying” while deliberately drawing attention to yourself is unforgivable.
…As frustrating as it is that the CoC hasn’t listened or gotten a grip on things, there’s a point where it’s not worth the effort and bridges the gap to worthless obsession.
Coruthers fetch my gun… someone be talking all posh innit.
Both the Commandant and Group Captain Pass are following the account, so HQ knows about it.
Don’t doubt it - “Philip @ HQAC Media Comms” too.
Something like this truly is self harm.
If pure troll, yes, but thinking about it it could be someone who’s genuinely snapped and is exhibiting poor MH.
Poor Morale Hubris?
Hadn’t actually thought of it that way to be honest, but could be true. Maybe an OC who’s landed in hot water over a photo they’ve uploaded even though everyone else seems to be doing the same. Might have been their final straw.
I still think there are better ways of going about it though.
Easy to say from an objective, rational standpoint.
I’m ambivalent about it really. The point needs making, because HQ don’t seem to care.
I also recall the WO who politely tried to challenge the Comdt about it on Facebook, and how he got a) roundly ignored and b) abused by all the people who thought it inappropriate for someone to challenge a senior officer. If that’s what you get for doing the right thing, then why bother?
Similar…if it was calling out specific individuals i would have more of an issue with it, however i think the comments are about the situation/local leadership rather than the individuals…
The real issue for the CoC, is it demonstrates the hypocracy in full that we face on a day to day basis.
It is a failure of Command that an individual has felt it necessary to take these steps.
If the CoC had simply publically, gripped this from the start and enforced it’s own rules. We wouldnt be here.
The issue of course is that it cant, as the rules dont align with UK law. So, hqac has little ground to stand on.
Easiest solution.
Align our rules to the law. Just publish a 1 line doc saying from now on, “Rafac stance is whatever the law is”.
Simples!
No ambiguity.
No one can blame HQAC.
Done
Bosh.
This is where HQAC SM is a double edged sword - they want to circumvent the CoC in one direction only - we either have direct access or we don’t.
Those at the top (and the naïve at the bottom) hold a belief that the CoC works and if something is important it will reach the right person who will take the required action. But it never does.
As public as Instagram is, even if someone outside does find that page, it’s obscure enough that they wouldn’t have the knowledge needed to understand it. As public as ACC is, there’s no algorithm pushing it out to those who aren’t looking. Twitter, however…
More on this: they can bleat about PR all they like, but I don’t think CAC or RC pages should count - they are far more internal in reach and, being honest, I don’t think the main RAFAC pages are effective at reaching an external audience or even targeting posts to external demographics. What we have are multiple accounts at multiple levels duplicating purposes. The org needs to redefine its SM strategy and set out the purpose of each type of page/group/profile.
Spot on.
The best thing would be a policy preventing every man and his dog getting a SM account and branding it as “flt lt blah” or “WO smit” etc.
Only unit formations should be allowed to have accounts. That way HQAC has more control over it.
Also. Make it mandatory that every SM post copies in the HQAC account for that platform…
That way HQAC has oversight of everything going online.
Failure to comply should mean administrative action is taken.
Another bug bear.
We are a uniformed organisation. We should not shy away from disciplining people. If they dont like it they can leave.
Frankly, we need to thin out the chaff in this org, who feel it is acceptable to not follow the rules.
Careful what you wish for.
That said, the most problematic chaff isn’t at squadron level.
I don’t think the issue is anything to do with HQAC’s rules not aligning with the law. They set their rules, we all agree to abide by them, and can enforce them as they wish. Its just a lack of will to actually do it.
Possibly.
Either way it ain’t working.
Oh for sure.
I have zero doubt that elements of the org would dearly love to silence people like me.
But then, they would also lose the other side of the coin, they neither see nor apparently care about.
An efficient, safe, well run unit whose OC prides themself on following the rules and acting within the bounds of Governance.
i did this some years ago about a photo which didn’t comply with the regulations. it wasn’t “unsafe” but just didn’t comply, having uploaded a similar photo (or at least similar breech) and bent over the coals I re-educated myself…some time later a HQAC platform uploaded a photo which i questioned.
much toing and froing questioning why i think it is “unsafe” (“no sir, i did not say unsafe I said non compliant” - “so what is your problem if it is safe” - “it isn’t compliant sir” - “but it is safe so what is the problem…” and so on) we eventually reached the end where HQAC said “we tried out best”