So I applied for the Reserve a couple of months ago. I knew before I applied that it would be a slow process, one with a lot of bureaucratic hoops through which to leap.
Unfortunately as January began to draw closer it became clear that making it by the start-of-year intake cycle became a bit more unlikely. I finally got the appointment for my medical, and it was under the mid-January deadline by a week or so. I had been warned that my exam could be bumped if an applicant for the main forces needed to go ahead, which is fine.
Sure enough I got the call informing me of just such an eventuality, the medical bumped to January 20th or so. Which I guess means I'll have to wait till September to start training.
The infuriating part was, the message was by some bloody corporal who had apparently decided to make the call during a moment of hilarity in the office, and she was giggling her butt off, so much so it was hard to understand her (I couldn't even get her name, just her rank). The message ended without a goodbye, just a hangup.
That message was so damn unprofessional and childish, so rude and infuriating ... here I was being informed that my enrollment had been scuppered for another eight months, and she was laughing so hard she couldn't even talk.
With all the delays -- oh and an application I submitted two years ago that mysteriously vanished -- and now this damn message I'm fighting the urge to decide the show is being run by a bunch of clowns. Worse, I'm wanting to take a tape of that message to my MP, get it to the Prime Minister's Office, raise a big stink.
Am I just being overly sensitive? I just feel as though I haven't been shown any respect. I don't expect bowing and scraping, just a basic minimum.
Someone make me feel better, please!
Unfortunately as January began to draw closer it became clear that making it by the start-of-year intake cycle became a bit more unlikely. I finally got the appointment for my medical, and it was under the mid-January deadline by a week or so. I had been warned that my exam could be bumped if an applicant for the main forces needed to go ahead, which is fine.
Sure enough I got the call informing me of just such an eventuality, the medical bumped to January 20th or so. Which I guess means I'll have to wait till September to start training.
The infuriating part was, the message was by some bloody corporal who had apparently decided to make the call during a moment of hilarity in the office, and she was giggling her butt off, so much so it was hard to understand her (I couldn't even get her name, just her rank). The message ended without a goodbye, just a hangup.
That message was so damn unprofessional and childish, so rude and infuriating ... here I was being informed that my enrollment had been scuppered for another eight months, and she was laughing so hard she couldn't even talk.
With all the delays -- oh and an application I submitted two years ago that mysteriously vanished -- and now this damn message I'm fighting the urge to decide the show is being run by a bunch of clowns. Worse, I'm wanting to take a tape of that message to my MP, get it to the Prime Minister's Office, raise a big stink.
Am I just being overly sensitive? I just feel as though I haven't been shown any respect. I don't expect bowing and scraping, just a basic minimum.
Someone make me feel better, please!