in about 5 hours to decide the pattern for the rest of my life. Will they let me stay in? Will they boot me out? Will they keep me for at least 12 months and then review me so I can see what the recession is doing in 12 months time and then see what happens?
I will let you all know tonight once I know.
If they do boot me out you might see me on the road somewhere in a plain white unit looking lost doing agency work or trudging the highways and byways working for vision. But then again they might keep me in and in 2 weeks time when they sit an employability board they might decide the navy can’t employ me and still get rid of me.
If they do get rid of me and someone wants some company for a day or two and I have no work then give me a call!
To be honest I’m quite nervous about it but will just have to wait to see what happens. It is out of my hands now!
well they have kept me in, for the next 4 years until my TX date, 14 Feb 2013.there are some restrictions though,
no sea service (nice one)
excused royal navy fitness test (even better one),
no contact sports (not too happy about this, i enjoy a game of football),
no opperational land deployments (no iraq or afghan, so i wont be sent anywhere to get shot at, apart from maybe manchester on the agency)
Major overseas bases only (i can only be posted to places in the uk or to places like gibraltar, cyprus, the bahama’s! what a shame hey?)
and no impact activity (no running, shame cos im a fat [ZB] and dont do pointless running for miles)
so all in all a good days work for me. at least i can still do it on the weekend when teh breaks allow and get the experience for when i do leave and maybe buy my own unit in 4 years time when the economy is booming again and there is more work than wagons (we can dream cant we?)
Giblsa:
well they have kept me in, for the next 4 years until my TX date, 14 Feb 2013.
Hi Lee, That’s about as good a result as you could have expected when all things are considered.
Just think, there aren’t that many of us who have the luxury of being able to plan that far ahead with any certainty, me included.!!
I guess it’s a case of looking after yourself now so’s things don’t get any worse, so please take care, and I’ll let you know when I’m to be in Southampton next and you, me and Stu can meet up for a brew and a natter.
I’m doing a job for Keith soon, but it’s in Northampton, not Southampton.
Giblsa:
I guess it’s a case of looking after yourself now so’s things don’t get any worse, so please take care, and I’ll let you know when I’m to be in Southampton next and you, me and Stu can meet up for a brew and a natter.
That would be good…
Anyway Lee, just think of it as a guaranteed 4 years employment…
I have been discharged. After the medical board there is a thing called an employability board, and they decide if you are ‘employable’ within the navy with the restrictions you have placed on you.
Well this bunch of pen pushing ■■■■■ sat on Wednesday and released a signal (telegram style) to all the units with people’s cases that were reviewed at the employability board and they have decided I can’t do my job anymore so they have decided to give me the Spanish archer (El Bow).
I am appealing against the outcome so won’t put anything about the case on here but I am raging at the moment, if three doctors say I can do my job within the navy how the ■■■■ can 5 civil servants decide I can’t? As you may have guessed at the moment I am raging but looking at doing some sums to see if it is worth me appealing and the stress that will go with it.
At least they will be paying me until the end of September and then it’s just the pension and whatever wages I can get.
Giblsa, all the best with the appeal, but to be honest the pen-pushers
seem to win every time, one point here mate nothing ventured
nothing gained, If you do fight to stay in use the system as each service has its experts that can and will help you, If you have the misfortune to loose,
then take some time before taking, any decisions which concern
the disposal of money. As the big bad world outside of the forces is
one that ex-forces need time to adjust to .All the best and hope that the future
will be one that is right for you.
well, i have calmed down and had chance to have a chat with the missus and get some driving time in today with the agency and there is no better time to think than when on your own on the motorway with nothing disturbing you and I have decided, ■■■■ ‘me.
They are losing 19 years of experience and I’m not being big headed here but it will take some replacing. I have spoken to numerous people about it and they have all said the same thing, go for it and leave, I have my foot in the door with my driving and can get some more qualifications during my resettlement to set me up in other fields if the need arises.
My pension will be tax free and index linked so it will be worth nearly 14k a year when I am 55. I get paid until the end of sept/start of oct so have 3 months to find a job, any job to start with will do as long as it pays the bills until I find the right job. I’m not scared and feeling quite positive at the moment. Got to have a meeting with my ex navy boss on Monday so he can talk me through the process of what to do and if I want to appeal. But I’m going to take the money and run and be done with it. It’s the push I need and I am taking it with open arms.
Another point is if I do appeal and win they will more than likely send me to places that nobody else wants to go to so I can fill a gapped job (places like culdrose in cornwall and faslane in helensburgh) and I will see even less of my family than if I am on the road all week.
The main thing is that my wife Tina is behind me and that is all that matters. So beware folks, in a few weeks/months you might meet me at a truckstop or rdc and think why didn’t the navy keep him instead of giving him to our industry, what have we done to deserve this.
Giblsa:
They are losing 19 years of experience and I’m not being big headed here but it will take some replacing. I have spoken to numerous people about it and they have all said the same thing, go for it and leave, I have my foot in the door with my driving and can get some more qualifications during my resettlement to set me up in other fields if the need arises.
Hi Lee,
I know a qualification you can get on resettlement… and you’ve already visited where to get it.
I’ll be there from 3rd - 5th August running an already confirmed 2.5-day ADR refresher, so you, Stu (+ anybody else interested) and I can all meet up on on the Monday evening if that’s suitable.
dieseldave:
I’ll be there from 3rd - 5th August running an already confirmed 2.5-day ADR refresher, so you, Stu (+ anybody else interested) and I can all meet up on on the Monday evening if that’s suitable.
Stu can bring the pies…
Not sure what Im doing yet Dave, hell I dont even know what Im doing next week…
I’ll bring the pies if ou make the coffee again…
DAF95XF:
Not sure what Im doing yet Dave, hell I dont even know what Im doing next week…
I’ll bring the pies if ou make the coffee again…
This looks like another ready made get-out.
But seriously, if you can’t make it, I’ll have to deal with the edibles with only Lee to assist me.
I do hope you can make it (if the wrecker can get you back in time ) cos it’d be nice to catch up with you guys again.
I tell a lie - I know what Im doing Thursday, Im off after I pointed out to them that finishing at 19:50 then starting again at 04:30 on Friday isnt really on (they wont admit but they made an error there… )!!!
I’ll try and make it, even if I come straight from work…
Giblsa:
They are losing 19 years of experience and I’m not being big headed here but it will take some replacing. I have spoken to numerous people about it and they have all said the same thing, go for it and leave, I have my foot in the door with my driving and can get some more qualifications during my resettlement to set me up in other fields if the need arises.
Hi Lee,
I know a qualification you can get on resettlement… and you’ve already visited where to get it.
I’ll be there from 3rd - 5th August running an already confirmed 2.5-day ADR refresher, so you, Stu (+ anybody else interested) and I can all meet up on on the Monday evening if that’s suitable.
Stu can bring the pies…
I’ll make it of I can but I’m hoping I will have a job by then so will have to play that one by ear, and if stu doesn’t make it I’m sure two big lads like me and you can make a dent in a pie factory stock levels matey!!!
By the way Dave Lucy is right, it can’t be disability discrimination as it is a higher level of physical fitness to be in the forces and supposedly I don’t make their grade, but hey ho. like has been said these things happen for a reason and I am smiling all the way to the bank (and the job centre) but will still be smiling in a few months when I am doing my ideal job and they are all sat there in their offices bored to tears and being told you have to work late tonight, now if anybody says that to me I can reply “as long as you pay me overtime I’ll do it” I have never been able to say that before…
oohhh, what feeeyeeeling, it’s like dancing on the ceiling
By the way, I have to go and see old boss on Monday for a leaving chat and they want me in uniform, do you think jeans covered in 5th wheel grease and torn t-shirt will be uniform enough for them. If it’s not, what they gonna do, discharge me? Oh they already have…
It sounds like disablity discrimination to me, so maybe it’s time to get some advice from an employment lawyer.
Stu can bring the pies… 