Longest 2ww

[MrsSnaplegs]

Not the usual 2 week wait!! Promotion board sat this week and I have to wait now for the signal to see if I am on it! Aargh going to be longest 2 weeks ever!! Will completely out myself with this thread for anyone in the know but just need to vent some frustration.
I know nothing I do now will change the outcome but I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!!!

Sorry just ignore my ranting!!!

Good luck!

Haven't got a clue what you're on about but good luck

vintage I find out in 2 weeks if I've been selected for promotion this year or not. 2ww is the acronym used by those ttc (trying to conceive) obviously I'm not doing that again!!

At least it's a promotion and not a redundancy board!

I echo what Scary said ,we're waiting to hear about redundancy. Much longer wait though 1st tranch is Sept. We'll have a lovely relaxing summer then
Good luck to you

Good luck MrsSnaplegs - hope your wait isn't too stressful

I'm not even thinking about redundancy at the moment although I do know my branch is sort of ok because of what we do. If it comes up for me then obviously I will need to reasses but will wait for that to happen!!

Best of luck m'dear, if you become more senior than me I want you to understand that we shall never correspond. Ever.

Hope it all works out :)

wingdad Promotion is to get a half stripe not sure where you are in the ladder but I am sure I can lower my standards to communicate with you if required

Good luck, friends husband in same situation.

Hopefully not same branch as me otherwise he is competition

Half a stripe? Plt Off? Or am I in the wrong service altogether? :P

I'm dark blue but it would be upto equivalent of Sqn Ldr

I see, I see. Well I hope it all goes swimmingly (har-har, you see what I did there? Dark blue? Sea? Swimming? ) and you get the half-stripe. I'm sure you deserve it!

No competition then.

wingdad you funny man !! Of course I deserve it!

That's the spirit! One day you must come over to one of our splendid messes to see how we do things on terra firma :P

Might have to ditch the dark blue uniform though, people would only stare and we certainly wouldn't want that.

Ah already initiated by light blue as I did 2 yrs at halton!
My job is very purple!

Good luck! DH just had a similarish thing - rang up by desk officer to ask whether he wanted to be 'boarded' for command of a Sqn. Not really the one he wanted but felt beggars can't be choosers these days... (Not sure if the 'dark blues' have the same system or not.)

I have also just been for 2 job interviews and waiting for the results is always nervewracking.

No it's a different system for me - selection board once a year, promotion dependent on who/how your reports are written and if you are "in zone" for promotion. Also dependent on how many they need to promote for the year, they only need 3 this year for my branch. Not going to hold my breath but may be doing a rethink of life next week if I don't get it. 3 years until my 22 and 8 years left on this contract - might have to start thinking of an escape plan

Testing

My db is crossing everything for his brass hat this year. He has done all the major jobs in his branch and six months in a hot and sandy spot, and is now at Fleet. His reports are great, so he is wondering what else he needs to do.

Scary ooh best of luck to him! Are you Pompey based as well?

1 week and counting, I even bumped into my career manager earlier and he wasn't giving anything away it's going to be a long week

No, we are currently slumming it in Brussels (again - dh's 3rd consecutive appointment here), my brother is at Fleet.

scary sorry misread db as dh too much or not sure which

I do remember now you are "slumming it" in europe