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So My Step-Daughter just signed off for the last time.
13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
juice said:
So My Step-Daughter just signed off for the last time.
13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
To be fair i don't know too many companies that would buy you a leaving gift either. Whip round of colleagues yes but the man isn't going to do anything for sub 20 years and even then not too common.13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
I told her to get a Tank as a momento ! 
Anyway - her fiance is in the rifles stationed at Catterick. He's a sniper by trade and was moved from Chepstow and stationed there to train the new recruits. He has also signed off and will be out later this year.
That's 2 decent soldiers gone because they couldn't stand the BS anymore. It's very worrying to me.
Anyway - her fiance is in the rifles stationed at Catterick. He's a sniper by trade and was moved from Chepstow and stationed there to train the new recruits. He has also signed off and will be out later this year.
That's 2 decent soldiers gone because they couldn't stand the BS anymore. It's very worrying to me.
trickywoo said:
juice said:
So My Step-Daughter just signed off for the last time.
13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
To be fair i don't know too many companies that would buy you a leaving gift either. Whip round of colleagues yes but the man isn't going to do anything for sub 20 years and even then not too common.13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
We occasionally get expenses claims for leaving presents/new baby shower/sorry your cat has died gifts for colleagues. They get knocked back - if you care so much about your colleagues YOU pay for the gift.
Why are they leaving?
If they're not enjoying it them it seems sensible that they leave. The army isn't going to change, and I doubt it's changed much since they joined.
I left the RN when I'd had enough, however I was a massively different person to the one that joined. Was still the best period of my life though.
If they're not enjoying it them it seems sensible that they leave. The army isn't going to change, and I doubt it's changed much since they joined.
I left the RN when I'd had enough, however I was a massively different person to the one that joined. Was still the best period of my life though.
juice said:
So My Step-Daughter just signed off for the last time.
13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
Snowflake 13 years with the Signals, 3 tours (one at a FOB in Lash, one doing ECM for the paras and one at Bastion)
Apparently - If you want a leaving gift you have to buy it yourself...quality treatment. No wonder they are struggling to retain soldiers !
griffin dai said:
We used to have a whip round to get something for our guys
I had one of these when I left
I got similar - a MP5K from the Cpls Mess back in the 90's!I had one of these when I left
Jesus, what a petty moan. Leaving 'gifts' are given out by a persons respective Mess.
If she was a Cpl or Snr rank then yes, she should have got a leaving gift as she would have been paying out for everyone else on her Mess bill. Did she let her Mess commitee know that she didn't have anything?
If she was a signaller then she may be at the mercy of a 'whip-round' and if that's the case, perhaps she wasn't too popular...
OP - you have a funny idea about what the British Army is.
Everyone leaves. Sometimes it's when they choose and sometimes the time is chosen for them. But where do leaving gifts come into it and who GAF anyway?
(I was given an ice bucket which I still use....)
Everyone leaves. Sometimes it's when they choose and sometimes the time is chosen for them. But where do leaving gifts come into it and who GAF anyway?
(I was given an ice bucket which I still use....)
Edited by lockhart flawse on Thursday 24th January 18:13
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