Typical techy insular view. A (T) or a Lcpl doesn't necessarily have more responsibility
Typical non-techy insular view.
SAC is non-supervisory, SAC(T) and Lcpl are self-supervisory. A difference in responsibility I'd say!
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Typical non-techy insular view.
SAC is non-supervisory, SAC(T) and Lcpl are self-supervisory. A difference in responsibility I'd say!
Have you went up a payband?
O wait, yep you've went up to supplement 3, of course you don't care.
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The tech trades are pretty binary, it's easy to identify that a rank has more responsibility bestowed upon them. It's not true across the board. For example, some of our aircrew snco have a much greater responsibility on them than their commissioned counterparts. Simply, responsibility does not necessarily constitute greater pay. I've worked in a place where the SAC was responsible for 4 LCpls.
Have you went up a payband?
O wait, yep you've went up to supplement 3, of course you don't care.
I didn't go up to anything, and of course I care, I just think it could have been much worse than some people think.
I am just disappointed that my pay isn't gonna increase in the way I had pictured. Although to be honest my pay was gonna sit still until I had hit Cpl anyway.
I dont lose out.. YET. Then in the long run Ill be worse off.
Doesn't really bother me that much but I do have a Mortgage and future plans that do rely on my income. Should my other half leave work to have children or something, we are going to be earning a bit less than otherwise.
With regards to trade responsibility. Common sense should dictate that those who are working hands-on with aircraft are opened up to far worse consequences than those who earn their supplement through their ability to use Excel.
I dont lose out.. YET. Then in the long run Ill be worse off.
Doesn't really bother me that much but I do have a Mortgage and future plans that do rely on my income. Should my other half leave work to have children or something, we are going to be earning a bit less than otherwise.
With regards to trade responsibility. Common sense should dictate that those who are working hands-on with aircraft are opened up to far worse consequences than those who earn their supplement through their ability to use Excel.
Yeah we can all make blanket statements about trades but some definitely do very simple jobs that require no real thought or specialist skills / knowledge. Trades wages needed separating but they did this really badly.
I dunno what fwiw means but yes. I'm glad there is a separation but the separation is poor and below what is needed for the so called retention they claim to want.
People who were in two minds are already wanting to PVR since this announcement.
Admin trades have a better promotion path, less people to compete against in their office and no chief tech rank to slow them down either. They have a pretty decent deal for what they do.
£29947 - £26,868 = £3079.
Sorry it would be a 3k pay loss, not 4k.
Yes it means that it may or may not. That's why I said pay is only protected for 3 years.
Level 9 SAC(T) in supp 2 who get promoted to CPL now only get an £80 pay rise. That is a joke.
If they don't get promoted within 3 years, they could well lose over 10% of their pay. They might not but it's not a great situation to be in.
You're right, it could be 'much worse' but that statement means absolutely nothing. WW2 could have been much worse. It isn't as bad for some as it is for others granted, but the two points above are huge blows for the people involved.
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Thought the armed forces might be different but we have people crying that their pay is getting when it isn't, and the "my job is more difficult than your job" mentality 
Thought the armed forces might be different but we have people crying that their pay is getting when it isn't, and the "my job is more difficult than your job" mentality
You do realise that some jobs in life are actually more difficult than others... Mcdonalds burger flipper vs Structural Engineer.
There is a reason for the mentality.
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I don't understand people finding the reasoning for all this...
At the end of the day people have been conned. They signed up to certain terms and conditions and now it has changed (for the worse).
With no way of being able to voice an opinion that will actually be heard or taken notice of.
But it's the armed forces and people have to deal with it, is that the reasoning behind everything forever and a day is it?
At the end of the day people have been conned. They signed up to certain terms and conditions and now it has changed (for the worse).
With no way of being able to voice an opinion that will actually be heard or taken notice of.
But it's the armed forces and people have to deal with it, is that the reasoning behind everything forever and a day is it?
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Yes the pay is sometimes ok for what it is. But that is not the point.
Slowly but surely every little benefit of being in the armed forces seems to be getting chipped away.
Remember that one of the aims of this so called deal was to help with retention as it states in that booklet.
Does anyone seriously think that it has and will achieve that aim? If not then surely it's a complete failure from the start
Slowly but surely every little benefit of being in the armed forces seems to be getting chipped away.
Remember that one of the aims of this so called deal was to help with retention as it states in that booklet.
Does anyone seriously think that it has and will achieve that aim? If not then surely it's a complete failure from the start
I think some people have benefited from it. I couldn't say who or by how much that is though.
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I can, any SAC who was previously on lower pay band, because at a minimum supp 1 gets a payrise.
I know techies have a reputation for being premadonnas and moaning about this sort of thing, but sorting out jpa payments and signing an aircraft fit for flight should not be reflected the same way paywise.
Is an adminner potentially going to prison for making a mistake? Because that's the risk vs reward that gets reflected in civvy street, an adminner job is 18k vs aircraft work at 40-50k
I was always of the understanding that the responsibility was on the person who signed the work off and that person was usually a sgt/chief tech or maybe the JO? Therefore the onus is on him and not his techs? Perhaps my experiences of sqns are different and other squadrons run things differently? That or I've completely made it up from fuzzy memory
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I was always of the understanding that the responsibility was on the person who signed the work off and that person was usually a sgt/chief tech or maybe the JO? Therefore the onus is on him and not his techs? Perhaps my experiences of sqns are different and other squadrons run things differently? That or I've completely made it up from fuzzy memory
Indeed, Cpl has 2nd signature resposibilities signing off on work carried out correctly. SNCO's mainly coordinate paperwork outside of the job and as said are responsible for scoping indies (finding work required) however its also a Cpl's job to raise the requirement for those, which is a massive 'do it 100% correctly' deal. Also cpl's can get special auths to carry out independant inspections.
However take swing shift as an example. This consists of 1 Cpl and 2 SAC's, possibly not even SAC-T's. The Cpl raises all the flight servicing paperwork and does the necessary NCO checks while the two lads service all the jets, which can be up to 8 per night. After all that you've got 2 lads on the lower pay band signing to say the jet is safe and ready for flight, and the Cpl's signature declaring the servicing is complete.
Chief Techs are mainly tech issues/desk managers/sort out issues and JO is mainly involved in the more in depth engineering issues.
They are, I'd imagine thats far more prevalent in your trade though, only seen it happen a handful of times in ours.