Bloody Crabs!

[Jono]

RAF types that is. Son has applied to join, hoping to go in for officer training after Uni. Air Traffic Controller or Aircrew.
They invited him for a 2 hour presentation, only a presentation, today at Stoke on Trent careers office.
So, he travels home from Leeds, I take the day off to take him down, up nice and early, off we go, arrive 30 minutes early, son suited and booted, in he goes.
I set off for D&K motorcycles 2 miles away to have a browse and a coffee.
10 minutes later he phones me to say they won't allow him to sit in on the presentation, because he has forgotten his certificate for his A levels, and can't prove he has A levels!!! He has all his other docs for GCSE's etc with him, he is in his final year at Uni.
Bearing in mind THEY invited him, and nowhere in the letter they sent does it say if you don't bring document "X" you will be turned away.
He has a new date next month for Newcastle under Lyme careers office.
He is very disappointed, I am very :rant:

 

[Centaur]

Feckin stupid Jono.

How do you know about Crabfats? Were you a matlot aka fish-head?:-0)

 

[Jono]

Her Majesties Royal Marines. :bow:

 

[andyBeaker]

Ah, reminds me of the time I left home at 4am to take my son to check out Bath University only to find when we got there that the course he was interested in was no longer available. Got home at 00.45 the next morning after a nightmare journey home.

Happy days indeed.

 

[Jono]

My dilemma, do I write in to their recruiting operations at RAF Cranwell and complain, or just let sleeping dogs, and jobsworths lie.
I mean why would someone lie about their qualifications which will ultimately have to be shown at the formal interview FFS! :dunno:

 

[mick the knife]

My dilemma, do I write in to their recruiting operations at RAF Cranwell and complain, or just let sleeping dogs, and jobsworths lie.
I mean why would someone lie about their qualifications which will ultimately have to be shown at the formal interview FFS! :dunno:

Ask yourself, would the RAF really want someone whose Dad writes letters on their behalf, if you know what I mean

 

[Howard]

Thought this thread was about something you had picked up on holiday! ;-0))

 

[derek kelly]

Ask yourself, would the RAF really want someone whose Dad writes letters on their behalf, if you know what I mean

The only way anyone gets in the RAF is because their parents have written their letters for them :-0)

 

[Jono]

Back to the greenhouse then :-0)

 

[Boggymarsh]

If my experience is anything to go by, I would look upon this as a test for your lad. Those who have served in the Forces will know that low- balls, like this, are seen as tests of resolve and determination and in this case he might have been sent away to see if he will return! In this day and age when they can pick the best, by chucking in something like this and seeing who returns they can see who is serious and who is not. Many will have got the hump and many will say " fuck it!" and not bother their arses to return but by going back as directed your lad will show he is serious about going for recruitment.

Selection for any of the armed forces is hard enough but officer selection is harder - I mean it takes a lot of time and patience to train an individual to lead and be a complete cock at the same time....

Seriously, I know it's pissed you off but don't go writing letters as that might not go down well with the recruiting office. If your lad is old enough to be going for selection then he is old enough to fight his own corner and letters from Mummy and Daddy will just stay with him for ever and a day if he is taken on!

Good luck to your lad. Although I served in the Army, the life in the RAF is a far better way to go.

 

[Jono]

If my experience is anything to go by, I would look upon this as a test for your lad. Those who have served in the Forces will know that low- balls, like this, are seen as tests of resolve and determination and in this case he might have been sent away to see if he will return! In this day and age when they can pick the best, by chucking in something like this and seeing who returns they can see who is serious and who is not. Many will have got the hump and many will say " fuck it!" and not bother their arses to return but by going back as directed your lad will show he is serious about going for recruitment.

Selection for any of the armed forces is hard enough but officer selection is harder - I mean it takes a lot of time and patience to train an individual to lead and be a complete cock at the same time....

Seriously, I know it's pissed you off but don't go writing letters as that might not go down well with the recruiting office. If your lad is old enough to be going for selection then he is old enough to fight his own corner and letters from Mummy and Daddy will just stay with him for ever and a day if he is taken on!

Good luck to your lad. Although I served in the Army, the life in the RAF is a far better way to go.

I have an idea about life in the forces, 20 years Royal Marines, 8 years RM Reserves, as a cock obviously :-0), I know this bullshit would not have happened, it was just the way they dismissed him out of hand, he tells them he has "A" levels, because he has, they say prove it, to me they are calling into doubt his integrity, that isn't a test, it's a jobsworths operating above their station. Not a positive way to go about recruiting for the future.

 

[Jono]

Pen away,now safely back in the greenhouse, I'll wait for his second attempt in May h1d1ng2

 

[Boggymarsh]

Good man!

Maybe Crab bullshit is more bitchy and underhand than what we know from our individual experiences and I know that you are both be pissed off but you have done the right thing by leaving the pen alone!

Talking of bullshit... Parading my bed, bedside locker, mat, and kit locker on the drill square at Buller Barracks, Aldershot, in mess tin order at 10 o'clock at night was the worse I had chucked at me. Similar experiences as a Booty no doubt?

 

[scruffygit]

I have an idea about life in the forces, 20 years Royal Marines, 8 years RM Reserves, as a cock obviously :-0), I know this bullshit would not have happened, it was just the way they dismissed him out of hand, he tells them he has "A" levels, because he has, they say prove it, to me they are calling into doubt his integrity, that isn't a test, it's a jobsworths operating above their station. Not a positive way to go about recruiting for the future.

The Royal Marines - the thinking mans Para.

:-0)

From an ex-Crab.

 

[derek kelly]

Good man!

Maybe Crab bullshit is more bitchy and underhand than what we know from our individual experiences and I know that you are both be pissed off but you have done the right thing by leaving the pen alone!

Talking of bullshit... Parading my bed, bedside locker, mat, and kit locker on the drill square at Buller Barracks, Aldershot, in mess tin order at 10 o'clock at night was the worse I had chucked at me. Similar experiences as a Booty no doubt?

RN
Being woken at 5.30am by someone banging a baton on a metal dustbin & shouting "Hands off cocks & on socks" then having to get out of bed & being given till 6.00 am to shit shower & shave usually no hot water, then having to stand by our beds immaculately turned out, followed by locker inspection which usually ended up with all kit being pulled out of the locker & thrown over the floor, then given half an hour to tidy it all up with all kit folded to the size of our pay books then neatly stowed.
Then came the divisional muster outside our billets & march double time to the breakfast hall, punishable offence to miss any meal.

 

[americanexpress]

RN
Being woken at 5.30am by someone banging a baton on a metal dustbin & shouting "Hands off cocks & on socks" then having to get out of bed & being given till 6.00 am to shit shower & shave usually no hot water, then having to stand by our beds immaculately turned out, followed by locker inspection which usually ended up with all kit being pulled out of the locker & thrown over the floor, then given half an hour to tidy it all up with all kit folded to the size of our pay books then neatly stowed.
Then came the divisional muster outside our billets & march double time to the breakfast hall, punishable offence to miss any meal.

... no doubt this has made you the man you are:dunno:

 

[derek kelly]

... no doubt this has made you the man you are:dunno:

Probably, it pissed me right off.

 

[Centaur]

Incidently.....

does anyone else know where the name "crabfat" comes from?:-0)

 

[derek kelly]

does anyone else know where the name "crabfat" comes from?:-0)

Cos the uniforms are the colour of crab fat

 

[derek kelly]

BTW by crab fat I don't mean the fat from crabs :-0)