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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Sure. But that preference has absolutely changed over time. Especially as housing has gone up in time. Your 40 and 50 something friends who are higher up in the CAF absolutely do not have the same experience as 20 and 30 somethings new to the CAF posted here on their first or second tour.
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That is true, at least in terms of rank. Everyone that I know well started as an officer, though I was under the impression that those higher ranks are disproportionately concentrated at headquarters. For every one of them the overwhelming preference was to be posted here from the beginning of their careers versus Toronto or Winnipeg or Borden or Gagetown (there were obviously a few attractive postings elsewhere). Of course the workforce in Ottawa will tend to have more people who want to be here.
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The absolute disdain y'all have is only going to grow this trend. Keep treating complaints like this one as simply just that of ignorant plebes. You don't think this is going to impact you. But I'll take that bet. Today's angry LT is tomorrow's angry LCOL who will be remembering how bad that experience when he/she is tasked to set up a new unit or capability as a project director.
Correct. But it's the military who always gets the short end of the stick because when we show up at a building, we go to to the bottom of the pile for things like parking because "seniority". You could have 25 years in the CAF. But you don't have 25 days at the building as far as parking is concerned. Which is exactly why it's the military folks that are most vocal on this.
And you can think this an idle threat. Whatever. We literally now have internal policies that literally require extra justification to set up in Ottawa. We even have a nice excuse and term for it. "Aggregation risk". Growth is absolutely being directed away from the NCR. If you're happy to encourage that, so be it.
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I don't think "disdain" is a fair characterization of the sentiment here. From what I've read, it's more a case of people questioning whether the military has considered all alternatives before paving over greenspace for parking. Whatever the frustrations with the City and OC Transpo, those are still legitimate questions of the military or any other large organization.
In terms of priority for parking going to civilians, that sounds like an internal issue to the military. You don't have to allocate parking on the basis of seniority in a particular location - that sounds like an outdated policy and a bit of an own goal.
I'm assuming that you aren't saying that the direction of growth outside of Ottawa due to "aggregation risk" is related to parking. So you are talking about general recruiting issues due to cost of living? I'm not sure I am understanding the connection.
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