Armchair Bob

Hi Bob, just stumbled across this. Sorry, I'd sodded off again before you messaged me. I'm sure it's moot now, but my answer would be that the policy side of AFRC is alright, but I wouldn't go near RPID for love nor money. It's profoundly dysfunctional, it's a collection of different cultures, most of them strange, and it has been lacking in leadership for a long time. The current head, David Barnes, is an excellent guy, but I think he's taken on a thankless and impossible task.

Hopefully you're not going to respond by telling me you've been working there for the past year!

Hope things are good with you,

CM.

Thanks. I managed to get out in March this year after realising fairly quickly that it wasn't for me! I've got Government friends who all seem to love what they do but they are either policy or ministerial support. Instead I was working for the contractor CGI on the Futures Programme. Horrendous. I'd share some stuff if you like. I left a reasonably good job at Parliament for it. They actually interviewed me for a job in Edinburgh Council that turned out not to exist and weren't sure what to do with me when I reported for duty back in June last year! But by all accounts they are also failing to deliver at Edinburgh Council, and probably will do for the forseeable future. One of those chalk it down to experience things.

Can't believe the TAMB is ending!