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True Blue Jack said:
I remember one testimonial passed across my desk a while back which covered in detail the support given by the individual to the RAF Volleyball team over the previous 22 years and not much else. Without an admin input that would have been signed, sealed and delivered unchanged.
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And whats wrong with that if it's factual ?

Crack on..............:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
Well after 23 1/2 years...................... so far - I recieved bugger all.

No validictory letter, no certificate... didn't even get a leaving interview with the Boss..

Sort of left a bitter taste after all that time served.
 
FOMz said:
Well after 23 1/2 years...................... so far - I recieved bugger all.

No validictory letter, no certificate... didn't even get a leaving interview with the Boss..

Sort of left a bitter taste after all that time served.
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That is because they rimmed your mugcup of corrrfeee
 
FOMz said:
Well after 23 1/2 years...................... so far - I recieved bugger all.

No validictory letter, no certificate... didn't even get a leaving interview with the Boss..

Sort of left a bitter taste after all that time served.
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That sums up service life overall. "Thanks for twenty odd years of your life,and don't forget to shut the door on the way out."
 
Even I think you should've been given one of those badges!


("Badges...we don' need no stinkin' Badges!")
 
know the feeling, just left and it's great being a civvie.
12 years and no leaving card, pressie, a rubbish testimonial that was incorrect and no leaving interview.

anyone had to redress a testimonial????
 
Frame the testimonial, hang it on the bog wall and look to the future. Best of luck and welcome to the Goat
 
shiny_arse said:
Left Mar 09 and never received a testimonial. Cetificate of Service and veterans badge turned up though.

However has never been needed or asked for
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I left in 2006 after 15 years and I received a testimonial only after writing several times to the Stn Cdr at my last station; it looked like a five-year-old had knocked it up and wasn't even signed. I never received a Certificate of Service or veterans badge.

Just out of interest can I get a Certificate of Service now, and if so who would I contact for it? It's no use for work but I'd like one.

ETA: when I left the Army, before I joined the RAF, I got all my documentation, CofS etc on the day I handed my I.D. card in.
 
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What's a Veteran's Badge? I retired in 1996 after 23 years and it wasn't around then, AFAIK. If anyone can give some info I'd be grateful. Although I know I could just Google it, I'd be interested in why it has been introduced.

TIA
 
Wear it with pride, along with your e-goat pin! :PDT_Xtremez_14:
 
It still amazes me how ignorant and cavalier senior officers can be in their composition of poor testimonial and valedectory letters, bearing in mind the recipients have absolutely nothing to lose by sharing their work with the nearest tabloid or making public on a social networking website.

I too have a rag of one, which I had to ask for and composed by someone who might as well have worked in the mess pan room, so accurate and inarticulate were his comments.
 
I've not asked for one...If you expect nothing then when nothing arrives it's not a disappointment!
 
My experience was that the testimonial was rubbish and on pretty poor quality paper etc. The Certificate of Service was accurate and I've just had the Valedictory letter which is a thank you from the AFB wishing you all the best etc. All of which could go in your family history box for your grandchildren.
 
It has to be said that the way the RAF as an institution treats its leavers can be truly appalling. You read on this thread about people getting only half, (or none!), of the paperwork they are entitled to and there's another thread about how some medically discharged ex-RAF have to turn to the Legion to get things sorted. Why is it only the RAF that manages to cock it up?
As I've said, I served in the Army before the RAF and I got a certificate of service, a testimonial and a separate certificate covering all the courses I'd done and awards I'd received - this was in 1988. I come from a Naval family and both my Dad and Uncle received similar when they left service in the 70s.
Yet there I was in 2006, having to send letters to my old Stn Cdr at my last duty station to beg for my paperwork, and even then only getting a bad quality, unsigned Word document. But by the sounds of it I was lucky to even get that.
I hope that if anyone still serving who has anything to do with issuing this paperwork, and who is a Goater, reads this thread & ensures it doesn't happen on their Station. It does leave a nasty taste in your mouth.
 
Dixie68 said:
It has to be said that the way the RAF as an institution treats its leavers can be truly appalling.
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I think the RAF still treats leavers quite well - having left other companies since!

I left in 1999 and got all I was supposed to have (I think?) soon after I left - but then I found that no-one wants to see it anyway.

It is a far better proof of previous employment to photocopy your ID before you give it back and present that to your prospective employers.

Now waiting for the gasps of horror....
 
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