Very miffed to say the least

Makes my blood boil to think that people think that way.... their parents/grandparents more than likely served time in the army during the second WW. Wonder if they were worried about them having flashbacks over dinner, probably not.

 

My old man suffers from PTSD from his time in the army however never talks about it unless I ask and its well managed. My brother has severed 20 yrs already in the army and he's the most stable, focused and committed person I know. both my granddads did full services in the army and never discussed the war or showed signs of flashbacks or PTSD. What is wrong with people thinking like this, our lads risking their lives for the good of our people…….. Rant over from me..

 

Crikey Paradox you don't half live up to your username.

I recently had the honour of attending a good friends 'top table' as he was leaving the Royal Marines after 30+ years. There was a high percentage of ex marines there, all now employed who had gone on to do many different jobs. From anti - piracy to driving lorries. All of them, while having a healthy respect for their time in core, didn't allow it to define them out of it.

 

I wrote a long rambling reply to this, then chose to edit down. Strikes me as most people are furiously agreeing to be honest - the VAST number of our population that admire and are grateful to our military far outnumbers to in-educated ramblings of some inbreds down the pub surely?

My only other comment is - work tends to be jigsaw pieces - if you are the right shape at the right time - you fit in.

Personally I would never work with anyone that doesn't ask questions - most work is constant decisions, and having a team who will not interrogate them means we make collectively less informed decisions.

I can see though that other teams, with different shaped jigsaw pieces need people that will simply do and not ask.

However - in a work place where query is expected for the most part, try not to be too surprised if you are overlooked - our workforce, on paper at least, is better qualified year on year. The Qualification versus Experience argument will run and run - again, personally, I think people like to forget the word 'relevance' when it comes to experience.

Am unsure if its dawned on those nominating a professional attitude and being on time as traits above the general populace - the fact of the matter is most people tend to get the sack or indeed don't get the job in the first place if they are incapable of the above - if their employers tolerate this then more fool them.

Regarding the mental and physical treatment of serving and ex servicemen/women - I agree it's not as good as it could be, but then the provision for the general populace is not as good as it could be either - it's sadly a cog in a larger dysfunctional machine, that has ALWAYS been broken. Our leaders will always want people willing to fight and possibly sacrifice themselves, be this by career choice, or by conscription.

 

Keep the faithParadox, i wandered into a pub today and one of the fellas i was chatting to told me he had recently left the army stuck his c.v. in to some local Co."s and got a phone call early today to start Monday < so , stick with it mate .