Oh yea, how dare her DH tell her the instruction, show her a finished product, and actually expect her to produce something that requires minimal edits instead of accepting a bulleted list written in text speak filled with stuff that can't even be used? That's a complete failure of leadership right there!Then that's a failure on your department heads and generally speaking the command all around.
Oh yea, how dare her DH tell her the instruction, show her a finished product, and actually expect her to produce something that requires minimal edits instead of accepting a bulleted list written in text speak filled with stuff that can't even be used? That's a complete failure of leadership right there
The fact that you think that awards I am talking about are given for someone 'standing out and performing' illustrates that we're talking past each other here.Unlike you, I'll try to put this as least flippant and condescending tone as possible, but I'll say if you don't understand the principle of the issue - then it we are discussing a moot point. We all like to think our bosses are super busy and can't be flustered with meaningless "peasant work" like things such as writing an award, but if they can't take the mere 30 mins out of their day to write something to recognize an individual for standing out and preforming then it is absolute failure on him.
I fail to see why you think it's such a leadership failure to have someone put their inputs into the pre-made award template using proper grammar instead of emailing a bunch of bulleted text. The leap from one to the other is not nearly as great as you make it out to be.
Good topic for discussion, but I recommend a thread split.
...Back on topic, has anyone else seen that the USAF is allegedly re-hiring retired pilots to fill slots? I heard this earlier this week and now can't seem to find any recent sources to back it up. I can't be the only one who heard this rumor...
Those backup slides with commander's critical information (such as off duty safety detailed breakdown, MICP statements, and throwaway COAs) aren't going to write themselves.Here you go. USAF bringing back 25 retired officers to fill critical staff positions.
Lastly, the final major initiative the Air Force will try is to attempt to bring back retired aviators, known as a voluntary rated return. But, Wilson said, the retired pilots will only fill 25 open, critical-rated staff positions.
Retired rated recall worked like a champ for the USAF back in the 2009-10 time frame...but it was a very different program (guys could go to flying billets rather than just to desks) and a very different time in the airline business.
Perhaps it'll fail so spectacularly that the AF will stop loving the smell of its own farts and realize they actually have a problem, and it isn't the airlines' fault.
Skipping first year pay to sit in a non deploying billet? Maybe.Lot depends on extenuating circumstances. If a guy is on at a major as a FO and can take a 2-3 year leave of absence and still retain seniority, you might get enough bites to fill those 25 billets, particularly if they have young children and/or want to be home every night. Likewise, if the billets are overseas, it would be a great chance to take the family and have the experience of living in Germany / Italy / Belgium / Japan / Singapore / Hawaii for a few years. Money is great, but it is far from everything.
...If they want to entice retirees back, they need to let them keep their Retiree Pay.
I'd actually consider it if they made the offer attractive. But for me to take an absence from my airline job AND give up my Retiree Pay to come back onto Active Duty means taking about a six-figure pay cut.
If they want to entice retirees back, they need to let them keep their Retiree Pay.