Pma - Rip

[FOMz]

I've just seen this (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=270195) over on Pprune.

Not good, not good at all.

[rugby then work]

For ground trades there will be no more hasteners for outstanding appraisals, and there will be no further Missing Assessment Boards. If your appraisal has not been completed on time, you will miss out on the promotion board. MESSAGE: take responsibility for your own appraisal and ensure your ROs are doing their job on time.

so if we have a slack boss we pay the price!

As for the rst of it; think we could see this coming but it's just another nail in the coffin, the RAF has managed to make it harder for us to manage our careers and for the drafters to help (did I just say that drafters help?)

[Humble Scribe]

Once again the communication of this major change has been, well.... non-existant! I found out about it from a colleague who had recieved a brief whilst on an AMLC course, my Chf Clk knew nothing!

In realistic terms I can't see much changing immediately apart from the written careers briefs disappearing which, to be honest, wern't worth the paper they were written on. There has been some internal re-organisation at PMA but I think the 40% manning reduction, in PMA6 is exagerated, but changes were obviously going to happen with the (ill conceived) move to HW, JPA and the drawdown of the RAF.

More changes will come into effect next year when the move to HW occurs; what they will be are beyond me but it appears that discussions between your Career manager/Desk Officer will become a thing of the past. It's just another 'change' that we'll all have to get used to I'm afraid.

[FOMz]

I 'like' the way that the only way you can communicate with your desk is via email.......so, if you're not a cunning wordsmith and able to get you meaning across, your buggered.

So we only can communicate with them via email and apparently when DII comes in, there's to be a 33% reduction in IT. People queuing up now for IT to check JPA, email the desk, etc etc etc.

[True Blue Jack]

Did anyone think this was going to happen smoothly? As soon as they decided to base the CHQ at HW it was going to go wrong. As for taking personal responsibility for appraisals, anyone who was hoping for a career already did so.

I see the orifices are getting twitchy about the job specifications/competencies. Back in the days of OCMIS when it was a PSF responsibility we could never get the bu99ers to do it, so it's about time they realised the consequences.