Guard duty for this coming Chinese New Year festive session
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since this chinese new year festive session falls on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday plus New Year eve on Saturday, I believe most units won't get chinese to do guard duties for these 4 days. which makes me wonder, are there enough non-chinese personels to do guards for this period?
cos when i was in service, my unit was having trouble finding guards to cover for 2 days of chinese new year duties. this year got 4 days to cover, wonder will units face this problem... -
i think i'm having a deja vu on this..
but anyway, surely there will b some chinese tio extras.. so need not worry abt this.. -
Hmm... I remember that my brigade HQ's medical center once had a shortage of non-Chinese medics to do medical center duty for CNY.
My brigade senior medic sent a request to my battalion senior medic to spare some of his non-Chinese medics to help cover the duty there.
My senior medic wanted to send me, but I already had SAF ward duty to do.
In any case, they will try to get non-Chinese personnel to do the duty.
But if they really can't find anyone, then it's just too bad... in the end, someone has to do the duty.
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How about units which tend to have less non-Chinese?
e.g. Air force bases, Commandos, etc -
mine... Navy...
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I kena before,somemore it because the standby guards and those guards all report sick!!! Wah kao,morale of the story is,don't be too close to your CSM,cause he usually call those he know well one
Even though i was given three days off,but the 3 days is hard to compensate the spoiling of my cny mood sia. -
mine is service de.
non-chinese personnel not many leh..then some of us are called back to do guard duty during the chinese new year period.
lan lan suck thumb. -
My side used to practise a neutral system. Everyone does their duty, be it any ethnic holiday. No preferential system.
I was on standby on CNY eve before. -
my side is at least one chinese to be a guard comd, BOS, DO, orderly or cdso. at least one chinese. so cannot run.. lucky draw coming up
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Ditto.Originally posted by LazerLordz:My side used to practise a neutral system. Everyone does their duty, be it any ethnic holiday. No preferential system.
I was on standby on CNY eve before.
I've done duties on CNY eve and Day 1, and the following year, Day 2 and Day 3. LL lor. (pun not intended)
Advantage: Camp very empty. So almost nothing to do.
Disadvantage: Canteen not open. Except for Malay food, there ain't much choice. Have to all fork out money, call delivery. Also have to wait cause long queue.
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Ethnic Chinese personnel aren't spared from guard duty over the 4 day period in my unit, even though there's a significant number of guys of other ethnicities.
I don't understand it, really. What implications that could be raised are just nonsense. -
Yeap.Originally posted by Kuali Baba:Ethnic Chinese personnel aren't spared from guard duty over the 4 day period in my unit, even though there's a significant number of guys of other ethnicities.
I don't understand it, really. What implications that could be raised are just nonsense. -
duty on CNY can be good if you wan to siam the visits and the consequential houndings...
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not eat cookhouse food meh?Originally posted by CoolMyth:Ditto.
I've done duties on CNY eve and Day 1, and the following year, Day 2 and Day 3. LL lor. (pun not intended)
Advantage: Camp very empty. So almost nothing to do.
Disadvantage: Canteen not open. Except for Malay food, there ain't much choice. Have to all fork out money, call delivery. Also have to wait cause long queue. -
during my NS days, those non-Chinese were told to do 48 hours of orderly duty instead.Originally posted by Gordonator:since this chinese new year festive session falls on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday plus New Year eve on Saturday, I believe most units won't get chinese to do guard duties for these 4 days. which makes me wonder, are there enough non-chinese personels to do guards for this period?
cos when i was in service, my unit was having trouble finding guards to cover for 2 days of chinese new year duties. this year got 4 days to cover, wonder will units face this problem... -
consider this a good consolation if you have to be on dutyOriginally posted by wuming78:duty on CNY can be good if you wan to siam the visits and the consequential houndings... anyway the police, busdriver, taxi driver etc..... also have to work on cny. good luck -
Cookhouse malay food lah. Duh!Originally posted by stooki:not eat cookhouse food meh? -
Originally posted by wuming78:duty on CNY can be good if you wan to siam the visits and the consequential houndings...
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my friend who's a senior tech with the air force told me once he have to go back for duties on the 2nd day of chinese new year.Originally posted by Ponders:How about units which tend to have less non-Chinese?
e.g. Air force bases, Commandos, etc -
That applies to unmarried regulars, doesn't it?Originally posted by wuming78:duty on CNY can be good if you wan to siam the visits and the consequential houndings... -
double post
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at my side, the duty personnel (guards, officers and orderly) have chinese scheduled for the chinese new year period. and no, they are not serving any extras. i do not recall malays doing duty during hari raya puasa, or indians doing duty on deepavali. we do have plenty of non-chinese personnel.
how comforting for a chinese like me (though i wasn't scheduled to do duty during the festive period). -
during my last year of service, my unit couldn't find enough non-chinese people to do guard duty on the 2nd day of chinese new year since majority of the guards came from medic trainees and combat engineers trainees (as we all know they are very very few malay combat engineers).
so they make all the malay RPs come back and do duty on the 2nd day of chinese new year (usually the system is only 2 RPs do guard duty everyday). -
I know one case where a super chao keng Malay was intentionally asked to serve duty on Hari Raya Puasa.
He took MC.
And the CSM got scolded by CO for intentionally scheduling a person on a day which he celebrates which in turn was disobeying a standing order.
CSM got into trouble because someone chao keng.