Your mother!

[army]

Your mother!





Posted by Michael A. Dorosh from Canada on April 27, 1999 at 09:44:03:


In Reply to: Who da **** voted him in???? posted by An everyday kinda guy on April 27, 1999 at 05:37:39:



And mine, probably. The trouble is, politicians just don‘t live on the same planet as we do, and it doesn‘t seem to matter what party they belong to.

And they don‘t seem to want to enact legislation that will make it easier for the Forces to do their jobs - ie making it illegal to publicly discuss the whereabouts of the JTF don‘t get me wrong - the government should still run the country, but if they want to discuss the JTF let them do it in closed session, or making it mandatory for civilian companies to give time off for reservists.

 

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Re: Your mother!





Posted by Greg from Abbotsford BC Canada on April 29, 1999 at 13:41:12:


In Reply to: Your mother! posted by Michael A. Dorosh on April 27, 1999 at 09:44:03:



The only proviso that would seem to make sense on your
proposed law regarding discussing the whereabouts of
JTF2 would be to add the words "in the present". In
other words, if the politicians feel a need to discuss
the activities of JTF2, it should be done in the past-
tense ie: Last week, we sent the JTF2 to Blogistan to
repossess some very bad people‘s birthdays. They are
no longer in Blogistan, here‘s what happened...

As for mandatory time off for reservists, I agree
wholeheartedly. I‘ve been interested in joining the
reserves for quite some time, but with work and school,
the time just isn‘t there. A common complaint that
employers have is that if the reserves got extra time
off, people would use and abuse it too much. There is
also the perception that this would mean that people in
the reserves get extra "vacation time". I think the
best compromise solution would be that the reservist
gives up a week of his annual vacation time to offset
the time off given for training. I know that the average
reservist would still be away more, but it‘s a somewhat
fair arrangement that way.

 

[army]

Re: Your mother!





Posted by Greg from Abbotsford BC Canada on April 29, 1999 at 13:42:06:


In Reply to: Your mother! posted by Michael A. Dorosh on April 27, 1999 at 09:44:03:



The only proviso that would seem to make sense on your
proposed law regarding discussing the whereabouts of
JTF2 would be to add the words "in the present". In
other words, if the politicians feel a need to discuss
the activities of JTF2, it should be done in the past-
tense ie: Last week, we sent the JTF2 to Blogistan to
repossess some very bad people‘s birthdays. They are
no longer in Blogistan, here‘s what happened...

As for mandatory time off for reservists, I agree
wholeheartedly. I‘ve been interested in joining the
reserves for quite some time, but with work and school,
the time just isn‘t there. A common complaint that
employers have is that if the reserves got extra time
off, people would use and abuse it too much. There is
also the perception that this would mean that people in
the reserves get extra "vacation time". I think the
best compromise solution would be that the reservist
gives up a week of his annual vacation time to offset
the time off given for training. I know that the average
reservist would still be away more, but it‘s a somewhat
fair arrangement that way.

 

[army]

Leave MY mother out of this





Posted by Michael A. Dorosh from Canada on April 29, 1999 at 21:31:03:


In Reply to: Re: Your mother! posted by Greg on April 29, 1999 at 13:42:06:



The deal I usually worked with my employers was asking for the time off for courses, without taking civvie pay for any of the time off since the Army was paying me anyway. That‘s easy to do if you have a crappy low paying civvie job. Not so easy if you don‘t.

I don‘t know if I agree with you that reservists should forfeit a week of vacation time. Personally, I have no problem with it - I‘ve gone two years at a time without taking a vacation. But if a person is devoting two or four weeks to serving their country by learning a trade or attending a militia concentration, why penalize them by also taking away vacation time? It hurts the employer, but if a troop can sacrifice for his country, so can the employer.

The real issue is that employers would be shy about hiring reservists, and what is sometimes seen as an asset on resumes would become a big liability. I believe this point has been raised elsewhere on this message board, and it is a good one to discuss.