> A senior defence source told The Telegraph that Capita was “throwing everything at it” in the hope of being selected as the recruiter to run AFRP. They added: “Capita have really upped their game.”
This fills me with so much confidence that once they do get the contract, it will be an excellent service. 🙃
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Anyone else have a sinking feeling they’re going to give the contract to fucking Capita again?
I promise to sabotage any regiment they want to conscript me for, and I urge my fellow potential conscripts to do the same.
Pay recruits properly and look after them. Provide housing people would actually want to live in. It’s not hard.
Why would you put you life on the line for minimum wage
Can’t wait until it turns out Capita is a Russian front to undermine the British state
30 years of divisive politics has destroyed virtually all pride in this country for this country. I’m loving how our elites are suddenly waking up to the fact that no-one wants to put their lives on the line for the country that they’ve destroyed.
There are plenty of people who want to join the military forces but for one reason or another they’re declined. I know sometimes they want to avoid unnecessary risks but sometimes it seems like they’re too quick to say no.
I used to work with someone whose son was declined when applying for the army because he once reported a bad back to the doctor a couple of years before, turns out it was just some soreness after playing rugby the previous day and not a serious injury. This could have easily been an addition to their ranks from a kid who really had an interest in joining.
We all know the pool of people wanting national service reintroduced for themselves is small, but has anyone asked them if they also fancy wearing body armour produced in the same way the Tories procured PPE?
How in the actual fuck is a company like Capita even allowed to continue operating when its genuinely gotten to a point where their incompetence and inability to fulfill fairly basic duties that they being paid very well to do is affecting our nation’s strategic capabilities? This is completely beyond the pale yet the commentary quoted in the article is like this is no biggie?
If the army wants a short fat scuba diver then I’ll go.
I guess all the years of discriminating against young straight white lads (the people that make up over 90% of the fighting force) and trying to attract BAME, gay, trans by giving them better offers, berceries, making spots only available for them and promoting their views really has not worked out like they thought it would.
This type of thing may work well for facebook likes but when you need a strong military force where people are putting their lives on the line for £23k a year its best not to discriminate against the very people who historically and realistically you need to sign up (young, healthy white men).
Our government need to stop stirring shit because i am not signing up to go fight their wars and they wont send their kids in my place so they need to humble their tongues and egos.
Just bring it back in-house.
It’s what military recruiters and recruits both want.
It’ll stop some nebulous “public money savings” to use serving military people though, and someone in government won’t get that cushy kickback from the private company, so it won’t happen.
It’ll be assigned to Crapita just before the election, so that Labour have to deal with it, **and** the conservatives can use it as a stick to attack them.,
Theres enough people wanting to sign up theyre just useless at processing recruitments. Ive heard of people waiting for a medical for a year then just giving up and getting another job.
Who would have thought that outsourcing this sort of thing could backfire so dramatically. Let’s be honest though, even with a competent company at the helm there’d still be a recruitment crisis, because the fact remains that very few people would want to enlist.
If they want someone to do donuts in a muddy field with a Land Rover or 6×6 lorry I’ll do it.
Conscription would never work, Capita can’t even process the current tiny application numbers never mind deal with an uplift.
At work, Capita would’ve been struck off my approved suppliers list and not be eligible to bid. How the fuck are they eligible to get the contracts again when our national security is at stake?
Oh no… The peasants don’t want to protect to put their life on the line for cunts? I’m shocked.
Literally ONE LAW CHANGE would fix this and EVERY OTHER government issue…..allow government departments…in fact compel them to look at a suppliers history & block them from biding for the contract. If no supplier is available, hire internal staff & direct contractors & deliver the project yourself.
These issues with recruitment are 100% down to Captia and their total inability to do anything right. Throw them out, bring it all back in house. Who the hell is going to wait 18 months to hear back from a job application?!!
A few years ago I was in the army reserve and applied to join the RAF as a regular (full time).
They seemed to be really happy for me to join because I was young, had reserve experience, and scored high on the entry tests.
The waiting time took literally over 1.5 years. In that time, I got a promotion at work and had a child. By the time I finally had a date for entry, I didn’t want it.
It would mean cutting my salary by over £15k and spending time away from a young family, which I didn’t want to do.
Maybe if they didn’t take so long, people would join in higher numbers.
Who would have thought turning over recruitment to a private company, something no other country on earth does, would be a shitty idea.
Rather shit in my hands and clap than join this failing countries military. You’d have to kill me if you wanted me to participate in a draft.
Too little, too fucking late. You (the government) have fucked it up so badly, now sleep in the bed you made. Tossers.
Everything that private finance/contracts touches in the military is a disaster.
Used to have proper cooks and food then it was contracted out. It’s not really any cheaper and the quality of food is abysmal, particularly when people are required due to the demands of training to eat more.
The one thing I’ve become more and more contemptuous of as I grow older is this country’s attempt to do everything on the cheap but with the consequence that it isn’t actually any cheaper and the results are always, but always, worse.
There are certain things that should never be outsourced, and recruiting for the military is one of those things. Bring it back in house, speak to the people who are seeing first hand what the issues are around recruiting and solve those issues. One of the militaries modus operandi is solving problems, let them have a crack at it since capita seem to be monumentally useless.
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> A senior defence source told The Telegraph that Capita was “throwing everything at it” in the hope of being selected as the recruiter to run AFRP. They added: “Capita have really upped their game.”
This fills me with so much confidence that once they do get the contract, it will be an excellent service. 🙃
[deleted]
Anyone else have a sinking feeling they’re going to give the contract to fucking Capita again?
I promise to sabotage any regiment they want to conscript me for, and I urge my fellow potential conscripts to do the same.
Pay recruits properly and look after them. Provide housing people would actually want to live in. It’s not hard.
Why would you put you life on the line for minimum wage
Can’t wait until it turns out Capita is a Russian front to undermine the British state
30 years of divisive politics has destroyed virtually all pride in this country for this country. I’m loving how our elites are suddenly waking up to the fact that no-one wants to put their lives on the line for the country that they’ve destroyed.
There are plenty of people who want to join the military forces but for one reason or another they’re declined. I know sometimes they want to avoid unnecessary risks but sometimes it seems like they’re too quick to say no.
I used to work with someone whose son was declined when applying for the army because he once reported a bad back to the doctor a couple of years before, turns out it was just some soreness after playing rugby the previous day and not a serious injury. This could have easily been an addition to their ranks from a kid who really had an interest in joining.
We all know the pool of people wanting national service reintroduced for themselves is small, but has anyone asked them if they also fancy wearing body armour produced in the same way the Tories procured PPE?
How in the actual fuck is a company like Capita even allowed to continue operating when its genuinely gotten to a point where their incompetence and inability to fulfill fairly basic duties that they being paid very well to do is affecting our nation’s strategic capabilities? This is completely beyond the pale yet the commentary quoted in the article is like this is no biggie?
If the army wants a short fat scuba diver then I’ll go.
I guess all the years of discriminating against young straight white lads (the people that make up over 90% of the fighting force) and trying to attract BAME, gay, trans by giving them better offers, berceries, making spots only available for them and promoting their views really has not worked out like they thought it would.
This type of thing may work well for facebook likes but when you need a strong military force where people are putting their lives on the line for £23k a year its best not to discriminate against the very people who historically and realistically you need to sign up (young, healthy white men).
Our government need to stop stirring shit because i am not signing up to go fight their wars and they wont send their kids in my place so they need to humble their tongues and egos.
Just bring it back in-house.
It’s what military recruiters and recruits both want.
It’ll stop some nebulous “public money savings” to use serving military people though, and someone in government won’t get that cushy kickback from the private company, so it won’t happen.
It’ll be assigned to Crapita just before the election, so that Labour have to deal with it, **and** the conservatives can use it as a stick to attack them.,
Theres enough people wanting to sign up theyre just useless at processing recruitments. Ive heard of people waiting for a medical for a year then just giving up and getting another job.
Who would have thought that outsourcing this sort of thing could backfire so dramatically. Let’s be honest though, even with a competent company at the helm there’d still be a recruitment crisis, because the fact remains that very few people would want to enlist.
If they want someone to do donuts in a muddy field with a Land Rover or 6×6 lorry I’ll do it.
Conscription would never work, Capita can’t even process the current tiny application numbers never mind deal with an uplift.
At work, Capita would’ve been struck off my approved suppliers list and not be eligible to bid. How the fuck are they eligible to get the contracts again when our national security is at stake?
Oh no… The peasants don’t want to protect to put their life on the line for cunts? I’m shocked.
Literally ONE LAW CHANGE would fix this and EVERY OTHER government issue…..allow government departments…in fact compel them to look at a suppliers history & block them from biding for the contract. If no supplier is available, hire internal staff & direct contractors & deliver the project yourself.
These issues with recruitment are 100% down to Captia and their total inability to do anything right. Throw them out, bring it all back in house. Who the hell is going to wait 18 months to hear back from a job application?!!
A few years ago I was in the army reserve and applied to join the RAF as a regular (full time).
They seemed to be really happy for me to join because I was young, had reserve experience, and scored high on the entry tests.
The waiting time took literally over 1.5 years. In that time, I got a promotion at work and had a child. By the time I finally had a date for entry, I didn’t want it.
It would mean cutting my salary by over £15k and spending time away from a young family, which I didn’t want to do.
Maybe if they didn’t take so long, people would join in higher numbers.
Who would have thought turning over recruitment to a private company, something no other country on earth does, would be a shitty idea.
Rather shit in my hands and clap than join this failing countries military. You’d have to kill me if you wanted me to participate in a draft.
Too little, too fucking late. You (the government) have fucked it up so badly, now sleep in the bed you made. Tossers.
Everything that private finance/contracts touches in the military is a disaster.
Used to have proper cooks and food then it was contracted out. It’s not really any cheaper and the quality of food is abysmal, particularly when people are required due to the demands of training to eat more.
The one thing I’ve become more and more contemptuous of as I grow older is this country’s attempt to do everything on the cheap but with the consequence that it isn’t actually any cheaper and the results are always, but always, worse.
There are certain things that should never be outsourced, and recruiting for the military is one of those things. Bring it back in house, speak to the people who are seeing first hand what the issues are around recruiting and solve those issues. One of the militaries modus operandi is solving problems, let them have a crack at it since capita seem to be monumentally useless.