I feel your pain! I’ve just had the DIO people on the phone for over an hour, about a local issue, if it makes it any better 
There’s an issue / bug in bidding which if it is set bidding somewhere and not bidding somewhere else SMS basically goes off into a dark corner and has a little cry. And it won’t come back out even if you offer it tea and a choc hobnob.
This isn’t strictly true. There was (is) a bug in SMS preventing both management of cadet bids and uploading files. It required us to raise a whole new event and for us to add everyone ourselves and start again. As the SPO and RHQ SME (yes, head above the parapet), it had been approved, albeit not on SMS, and those with a need to know about the problem were kept informed and on standby to press the approval button (I even discussed with and briefed that person in person). Whilst absolutely needed, the clicking of the button ended-up being a formality of concluding a process, not actually granting of approval.
Moreover, I approved another Wing’s exercise on the day of deployment, not because of slack admin but because a compassionate matter required re-planning and, importantly, because I was engaged in the planning process both as SPO and approver, meaning I wasn’t thrust a bundle of paperwork that I’d previously been blind to. If the latter were the case, the time-consuming process includes reviewing, responding, amendments, re-reviewing, etc, and risks rejection due running out of time, hence the timescales we request. However, I have NEVER rejected an application based on time of submission; if an activity is safe and by the rules then it gets approved.
Worse still is that it DID work so we started to manage bids, then it stopped working, meaning we had some selected and not others, leaving people to think not selected = … not selected! I did email every OC and Adj account in all LaSER and SW to warn of the problem but I guess the message didn’t get out.
Did no one tell you carrier pidgeon is the prefered communication method in these parts?
GMG. Just had to go full dad mode at the kids for leaving lights on and doors open…
What has become of me.
You think that’s bad?
I don’t even have kids and have had to go full dad-mode with some of the volunteers living in our accommodation for the exact same thing!
Lights because electricity is unbelievably expensive over here, doors because I don’t really want cockroaches and lizards in the living room.
Have you uttered 'you’re not going out dressed like that’s yet 
I mean, I’ve thought it. Especially when they’re not even going to the clubs and I could just about see the bottom of their cheeks!
Yes. But it normally relates to their obsessive wearing of crocs rather than anything too indecent.
Arguably, crocs are also indecent. But meh.
Did you draw comparisons to Blackpool Illuminations and ask if they were born in a barn?
Or that the house is not an air field so no need to leave the landing lights on.
Working from home, I live in my crocs
Do you have to plug all the holes in them to stop your dignity leaking out by lunchtime? 
Survive in your smock, WFH in your crocks?
Just sat in a prison video link for a conference for 35 minutes before anyone at the prison put their head in the door to ask who I was waiting to see.
5 minutes later, the officer returns to tell me that they cannot confirm whether or not my client is actually serving in their establishment.
GMG (but also the most depressing message ever)
Sitting at a Google Meets screen to the message “You’re alone on the call”!
Wife decided last night that we should switch to the winter duvet. I didn’t disagree, it’s been colder the last few nights.
Big mistake. Like sleeping in an oven under the duvet, but freezing outside. Little sleep has been had.
People in our organisation who still can’t wear a poppy correctly…
Amount of posts I’ve seen where it’s on GPJs or Jeltex.
Oooh, another advantage of the SCC. No GPJs.
Yay!
RN equivalent is a navy blue softee jacket.