[deley]

This thread seems to have decended into some strange world where people are being "forced" to do things that perhaps they "don't want to do" or "don't like to do" .... get over it - much of life is (unfortunately for many people) a compromise between doing what we want / like to do and other things we don't

With regards to what some obviously see as an issue of "having" to flag for a few days and be assessed in order to upgrade to Experienced ..... in the grand scheme of an individuals marshalling life to be frank it isn't exactly a massive number of days to do and you are not expected to become an expert, just sufficiently capable so that if necessary you could be asked to flag at a meeting and there would be a reasonable chance you would at least get the basics right (after all you are being asked to flag in those circumstances because there is a shortage and hence a need for someone to do it). Doing it over 5 days rather than just the assessment day gives a higher chance that you will have seen a wider variety of circumstances from which to learn ...... which is the whole point of the term "experienced".

I can understand the 5 days flagging out of the suggested minimum of 15 days being seen as a high proportion - which it is if you look to u/g after that minimum - however the more days you do the smaller the proportion becomes .... and then after the u/g, if you are really lucky and select only well attended meetings then you may never have to flag again in your life

..... or in the real world you may be at a meeting with few marshals and end up with just you and a 1st/2nd day trainee on post - I would suggest that with the experience of your time on the bank / the little flagging you will have "had" to do / seeing what flaggies do in a normal day when you are doing incident on the bank / the basic flagging covered in the training days / the basic knowledge of the blue book you are supposed to have then you would be a better bet to flag out of the two people


Just a thought

Dave