Thread: IiP falls by the wayside - what other useful cost cutting measures can we make?

http://www.arrse.co.uk/intelligence-...e-bye-iip.html

Investors in People has been axed as a cost-cutting measure. Is it just me or was this one of those great initiatives that gave nothing of value to the REME apart from a little crest on paperwork and a nice little plaque to hang in Headquarters?

Call me cynical but if IiP was such a critical part of the workplace then the cost of accreditation would have been recouped many times by the higher standard of training our tradesmen received at the schools. How will our great Corp survive without a third party to externally validate how our training is delivered?

What "Crucial Initiative" (or "Emperors New Clothes Strategy" as I prefer to call them) - will be next to be axed, or will the REME always need to carry out such fine examples of the self-licking ice-cream cornet in order to justify the existence of many of our non-productive workforce?

Answers on a postcard to : Verticalgyro, 22 Smug Street, Arborfield, Berks.

After driving past a roadside repair agency having a look at some Green Fleet today on the M5...Recy Mechs are on the way out just like the Chefs are being squeezed because of contractorization over on the RLC side of the fence. Add up how much your Recy Section costs/delivers. You wont be the first to do it. REME Bns up and down the land are looking at other ways to save some cash. Techs will have to augment their Billy Blue Hat brethren too. Its all happenin' or it was a dream one or t'other. Same reality?

Catch, your not far wrong. Had a CST doing some driver training on SPTA. Broke down on the Plain but on a track, ie not in mud etc. Driver called the number and of course its a civvy firm as first point of call. But they say they wont recover it until its on tarmac/public road. Driver then rings up home Unit (Aldershot) who say "sorry, all 3 of our Fodens are VOR". Loads of phonecalls later, and some pleading (Weds sports afternoon!) to some local Warminster mil (Foden recovery) Units and it gets recovered to the road.
And not quite the same but you can see where im going...2 low-loaders on the M3 on Tues, each with CH2 on the back....both civvy!

Some contractors will recover from a ditch on the training area if they have the facilities but you have to have the pre agreed NRRRC control number from your Bde.

I doubt you can task these guys in Afghanistan even the ANA's recovery trucks are crap.

Dave

Originally Posted by Devilishdave

I doubt you can task these guys in Afghanistan even the ANA's recovery trucks are crap.

Dave

But that's the problem being faced in many areas, not just RMs. Vermin can be replaced by civvy fitters in the UK, RLC 'chefs' by contractors, etc, etc. We do not need most REME while in the UK - nor most RLC or AGC, come to that. The pressure is now on for all these roles to be contractorised not just in the UK, but on Ops as well - and this is the way things are going to have to go, if the savings are to be made.

There is undoubtedly a case to be made for more contractorisation, even on HERRICK - and as it finally, finally, sinks in to people just how skint the MOD is (take it from me, it is really, toally screwed) expect to see more of this in the SDSR.