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Pusser said:Has anyone considered the problems of allowing people to stop their own career progression and plateau? What about the people below them who do want to progress, but can't because the plateau folks are blocking all the billets at the next rank level? I'm not sure what the state is now, but a number of years ago there was a situation amongst the MarEng Mechs where either 33% or 66% (I can't remember which) of all PO2s were career restricted (as a result of QL6 failure) and unpromotable. This meant that promotions for MS and Below were VERY competitive and quite rare compared to other occupations. It was sad to see keen, bright and competent MS & B being unable to progress because there were so many PO2s that could not. Even sadder were the cases where the MS or even LS was so much brighter and more competent than his/her PO2 supervisor. Will allowing folks to opt out of career progression create more problems?
It's too late, far too late. The day they changed the IPS policy, started what we are seeing today, along the lines of promotion numbers. With the removal of the "IPS Base Rank" followed by a steady increase in %'s of offers, to where we are today. For all intense purposes, 100% conversion rates.
Allowing personnel to "opt" out, itsn't going to create any more problems with slow/no promotions than there already are.
Or let's play devil's advocate and say that all the top performers decide to "opt out" and those whom are less than stellar decide to "opt in". Then what happens?