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[miggy]

Boss wants me out in Canada by mid week next week, it could be a long stay....he says its up to me, if i wanna give it a miss then thats up to me.

You see i am in a spot...............I have a very important reunion coming up in April (1982 Falklands conflict), and cannot afford to be in Canada when it happens, boss says it could be a month, maybe 2 months in Canada.

I have never missed one of these reunions in the last 20 odd years, it is something close to my heart, i need to be there.

The boss does understand but thinks the 1982 conflict is dead and gone and i should have moved on by now..when he made these comments i went off on one, and told him that is just what it does not need, it should be remembered, a lot of my buddies gave the ultimate sacrifice during the conflict.

After a few very strong words he did apologise to me and left the option of going to Canada up to me.

Least to say i will not be going, I WILL be at the reunion, head held high.  

[Vamps]

Can you not go to Canada and come back for the reunion, I can understand the importance to be at this event, seems to be the last conflict where our guys, and girls, came back as heros, but that is another story.
Your company obviously feel you are important to this project, surly you would not need much time off to come back. Good luck in your negotiations.
 

[miggy]

Can you not go to Canada and come back for the reunion, I can understand the importance to be at this event, seems to be the last conflict where our guys, and girls, came back as heros, but that is another story.
Your company obviously feel you are important to this project, surly you would not need much time off to come back. Good luck in your negotiations.
 

Yep, your right there, but the company have given me a pasteing this past few years, I have completed 6 major projects in the past 18 months and I have 3 on the go in the UK at the moment which need me here to see through.........If i had been given a few weeks notice about Canada then things may have been different,, but as usual the call came out the blue last week, as always he wants me to change everything at the drop of a pin, and in the past i have oblidged, on this occassion I will be giving Canada a miss, he gave me the option and i took him up on it........Top and bottom of it is that he retires in May and he feels i should be running with his work load, well i am happy with my positon as it is, he can send someone else to Canada.
I will be at the reunion, and he understands that now.

   

[MikeDundee]

at least you had the option , if you did'nt then it would be another story

[Bacon Butty Man]

Boss wants me out in Canada by mid week next week, it could be a long stay....he says its up to me, if i wanna give it a miss then thats up to me.

You see i am in a spot...............I have a very important reunion coming up in April (1982 Falklands conflict), and cannot afford to be in Canada when it happens, boss says it could be a month, maybe 2 months in Canada.

I have never missed one of these reunions in the last 20 odd years, it is something close to my heart, i need to be there.

The boss does understand but thinks the 1982 conflict is dead and gone and i should have moved on by now..when he made these comments i went off on one, and told him that is just what it does not need, it should be remembered, a lot of my buddies gave the ultimate sacrifice during the conflict.

After a few very strong words he did apologise to me and left the option of going to Canada up to me.

Least to say i will not be going, I WILL be at the reunion, head held high.  

 

I was a boy when the falklands conflict was on, and the bit i can remember is is the belgrano and my dad coming up the stairs when my mum was in bed, she had Cancer and he simply said, "looks like war, luv", Thats it, i was 12ish then, I think its important to remember all the Brave people who fought for ME and my children so we can be free, in which ever war, remember not just the dead but the living too , the soldiers who came home, I think you should go with your heart, Pull up out side in your mig and like you say hold your head up and smile, cos you may notice the odd person may drop off each year and eventually there will only be a few left, but at least you will be there. go with your heart on this i say go to the reuniun, you damn well deserve it. (besides its too cold to go to Canada)

[Martin_1962]

I was 19 and it seemed strange to think there were people my age out there

[The Cambelt Kid]

Can you not go to Canada and come back for the reunion, I can understand the importance to be at this event, seems to be the last conflict where our guys, and girls, came back as heros, but that is another story.
Your company obviously feel you are important to this project, surly you would not need much time off to come back. Good luck in your negotiations.
 

I agree, get the company to pay for the extra flights...  If i was in the same situation i would highlight that travel outside of the UK wasn't part of my contract and they need to give a little in order to take a little.  

[Markjay]

Miggy, this is how it is, and always has been... those who weren't there have no idea what it is all about... and sadly we see the same today with servicemen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.  

[bertiecbx550]

what regt where you in? i had a mate in 2 para who was there...though i have never served i respect our armed forces and i know what a lot of em go through when they come out my mate still has flasbacks to this day..

[miggy]

what regt where you in? i had a mate in 2 para who was there...though i have never served i respect our armed forces and i know what a lot of em go through when they come out my mate still has flasbacks to this day..

I was in the Coldstream guards, i voluteered to go there and was attached to the Welsh Guards, as your mate does, i still get my bad days, especially at this time of the year as its getting close to the time i went out there.

[zippo]

i gave a friend a lift home last night as we were walking to her door a neighbor of hers stopped for a chat i recon he's about mid to late 70s
a really tough looking fella after a bit of banter i worked out he'd been the army .it came out during the conversation he'd been in 2 para Ive never been so ashamed of our country the way i was last night
here was a man who'd fought for his country in every conflict since the mid 50s earned loads of tin as he called it and i was talking to him outside a 1 bed roomed council flat surely we can look after our retired armed forces personal better than that.