there's just far too much bullsh*t in the military right now, it's gone downhill in the 4 years i've been in and it will get worse, there are very very few perks now due to cut-backs, i used to actually look forward to going to Afghan because the UK bases were that shite.
It may have just been my previous posting, but we were getting fast-tracked engineering managers posted in with little or no aircraft experience who then came up with stupid ideas and changing everything around, usually it was a case of "go and do this", and when questioned or the reply was usually "Because im a (insert rank) and i say so",
in my civvy job at Currys if the management had a stupid idea i would tell them to get stuffed and explain why it was a stupid idea, then come up with a better idea, it was more acceptable to give feedback and less chance of getting a charge or disciplinary action.
the olympics was the last straw tbh, they were extremely crafty about how they managed to get away with not having to conform to European working laws, we were working 05:30-19:00 every day for 2 1/2 months usually just grabbing a 5-minute smoke break whenever you could, living in what was essentially a shipping container (4 people in each) in the middle of a bug-infested forest park, we were basically free labour, same thing is happening for RIAT (air tattoo) this year.
as soon as they give me my NVQs, City and Guilds and my driving licences im gone, fancy doing something bike related tbh