19th July 2006, 02:26 PM
Have finally been paid and have been lucky enough to soak up some down time.After plenty of thought-I`m still going to apply for affiliate membership.My main gripe is over extremely poor standards and the application of such.If we were to join the IFA en masse-everyone then is subject to IFA disciplinary procedures and arguably, contraventions would be reported more often.There have been plenty of occasions in the past where over zealous supervisory staff have insisted that site assistants do something intrinsically stupid.Stand up rows over simple best practise get nowhere in a work environment fuelled by time and budgetry constraints.Asking a site assistant(IFA member of any grade) to carry out a task that would clearly breach an IFA standard or guideline would be something else altogether.What I am suggesting is a workforce that signs-up to and adheres to the codes of practise and guidelines of the IFA...a workforce that gets into the habit of using those guidelines/codes in the work place.Level of membership I feel is largely irrelevent-surely the consensus is the most desirable first step.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)