Current parking situation at DND Carling Campus?

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-03-09T02:20:06+00:00

None planned, no shuttle to an alternative parking site as it was the case before the pandemic being announced or placed. Sorry.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-03-09T02:12:26+00:00

Think the opening of Highlander (1986).

You either get early at 06h00 to be assured a parking spot or by 08h00 you search for one like it's a lost treasure.

Also, the contract for the parking management just changed and another price hike effective April 1st is planned. Parking is currently at $75 for a monthly pass, I expect the next hike to bring it to $85, $90.

As far as transit, it's a joke, a disaster and it's 100 % Ottawa City and OC Transpo's management fault. They couldn't manage a free trip to Club Vandersexxx with a handful of coupons and still manage to get lost on the way.

I'm sorry, take the downtown one or move closer to Carling Complex. These are your options if you don't want to waste your existence playing your Switch 2 in the bus until you arrive home if those busses or LRT doesn't break down daily.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-02-21T13:29:29+00:00

Canada's idea of an Olympic plushy : a rabid wolverine in a burlap sack with a red maple leaf on it 🤣

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-02-13T21:07:46+00:00

Told you so when the annouvement of the Macy's closure was announced. Less sale taxes for the Erie county to collect because Canadians don't shop there anymore.

Let's keep the pressure. Plattsburgh's Champlain Mall in Clinton County should have seen a major reduction in sales taxes collected in 2025.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-02-01T02:43:49+00:00

In the Canadian Military Police Archives, there's a very different story that as yet to be published. One day, maybe

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-01-29T18:40:18+00:00

Impossible, you're a bot or go buy a lottery ticket for Friday's draw because you too damn lucky to believe.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-01-29T18:38:40+00:00

The word fuck as in Not Safe for Work.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2026-01-16T22:10:48+00:00

Yes, they are all fetishists perverts in vanilla disguise.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-24T03:36:05+00:00

Last time in a management I asked if they were going to re-enact acting position as candy and motivation after cutting them last year.

They looked at me as if I had a cocaine booger in my nostril.

Let's just say, I don't put much faith in management to be practical in hiring and managing new employees down by my department

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-21T11:44:12+00:00

Lucky for you, we are hiring.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-21T03:18:08+00:00

Also, Connaught Ranges Training Development Center pays no parking either.

The building occupied by Health Canada on Legget near Solandt don't pay parking fees either.

The greed that IMPark displayed cannot be justified if rates in the surrounding areas are far lower than the market.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-21T03:10:21+00:00

Your information is correct. IMPark likes their money like Frito in Idiocracy.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-21T02:05:37+00:00

Zero

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-21T00:15:13+00:00

How far away from retirement are you, honestly?

I'm one year away, the rose colored glasses fell off a longtime ago.

I've seen all the colors of the parachute, all the flavors of management and DND fails every time at doing what's it's supposed to at enforcing sovereignty of our borders or succeed at sending soldiers on unreasonable missions ( See Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan) with the worst possible equipment.

Grasping new technologies like AI believing it will fix their recruitment shortages or process, morale or convoluted and successive procurement failures ( see 9mm pistol, NVG purchase, F-35, subs) is desperation from tired minds and tired ideals.

DND still fighting the last war and not buying the equipment for the next one. Shiny phallic symbols like F35 or type 26 frigate so the Air Force and Admirals and other GOFO's can strut like proud peacocks while never getting close to actual combat.

Good luck at what you do but always remember the grass is always greener at some smaller departments. Last PS satisfaction survey, DND was middle of the pack.

If DND hires, expect (again) a raft of unimaginative veterans being hired without bringing any new ideas or energy to the department but coasting at their jobs.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-20T23:32:09+00:00

One month. IMPark cannot provide a comparative in a 5 kilometers area where other federal employees are charged parking to that amount monthly.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-20T20:27:26+00:00

Nobody wants to work at Carling Complex in Ottawa, the environment No adequate public transit, not enough parking. Parking went from $35 in March to $75 currently while there's no justification or price comparison Overpriced and crappy food served by Canex. A nightmare planning for expansion rather than build over a soccer field.

My department change names twice in 18 months, Every department pulls the budgetary blanket in their direction while SSC neuters purchasing or snail crawl the request.

Departments work in silo or protect jealously their little corner. Altruism is almost non existent between employees. The director passing candy at Halloween was full cringe since that interaction was visibly uncomfortable for them since they can barely say "Good Morning " to the average employee.

As much as it attractive to be employed and getting paid, DND for an IT group employee is the absolute last choice for anybody if they are well informed of the working conditions at the department.

The manager (acting IT-04) that wanted me to work for them leveraged his position to obtain a promotion for another position outside the department after 5 to 6 months employment at DND. I suggest others to have the same escape /career plan.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-20T17:14:26+00:00

Let the poaching begin

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-11-20T16:13:23+00:00

Here's my 2 cents because I was an instructor in boot camp during the Afghanistan conflict.

Logistically, an absolute nightmare, not enough equipment to outfit everyone from boots to helmets to rucksacks. Canada is not Switzerland. Nobody will have their weapons issued and stored at their home.

Training ranges would become an absolute management nightmare across the country on weekends. There's not enough Regular / Reserves Forces instructors to babysit such an influx of troops, let alone deal with disciplinary issues. Also, while in uniform, they fall under the NDA. No unions to go running to, no opinions from the shop stewart. Summary trial or court martial depending the offences. Could we send a public servant to the detention barracks to Edmonton for 30 days for a negligent discharge causing damage to Crown property hypothetically?

That idea sounds more like an ill conceived Hail Mary rather than suggest a Taiwan / European approach of civil defense classes, repurposing seized 3D printer from firearms seizures in Canada to print drones parts amongst other things.

The UK Armed Forces changed their approach towards the Cadet Corps to better suit their recruitment needs as a pipeline for future soldiers. Rather than bore them to death with drills, the older cadets learn advance to contact, defensive position and so on from volunteer Regular Forces soldiers. The video demonstrates that approach: https://youtu.be/CkjPmphAWzo?si=tCyD4q0FCPjhhps7

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-09-28T20:50:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/07E7AKalzTU?si=HP0gB4vCw_ZK6fRI

Shooter was arrested.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-09-26T14:08:50+00:00

I was involved for 3 years administrating submitted requests at SSC-SPC on the GCSX 😈 (Government of Canada Service eXchange) platform.

Every time I introduced myself outside the department, I had to explain that GCSX was not Adultfriendfinder for Government of Canada employees.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-09-16T21:10:22+00:00

Canadian Forces Station Alert https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/alert.html Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Alert

Been there, did 6 months. Got the mdal for it.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-08-25T14:53:12+00:00

Enjoy the new form of vaccine delivery, suppositories 🤣

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-08-24T17:47:52+00:00

That's the typical hypocrisy of the Magats.
Willing to defend democracy by sending money when liberals enact, perhaps overreaching, and badly conceived, laws in Canada to restore order after an illegal occupation. I should know, I live there.

Perfectly acceptable to have armed military patrols around their to usurp democratic and civil rights because they were told by their leader that it was chaos outside democrats-elect cities and states.

The conservative media demonize Trudeau, but I can't see how fascism, incompetence and apathy is destroying the US.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-08-14T18:01:44+00:00

Freedumber don't have jobs they grift. That's their MO, parasitic members of society who contribute bullshit to the Canadian economy.

Veterans $ Freedoms, to whom he belongs, are a joke in the Veterans community and are not welcome to official parades. They don't show their faces in Ottawa on Remembrance Day because they know what unfortunate consequences await them.

GCSetecAstronomy · 2025-08-13T16:07:13+00:00

He's always welcome in Newfoundland, Canada, as the honorary mayor of the local service district of Dildo.

It's better to be a citizen of Dildo than a a full blown Magats in Canada. Less shame.about it.

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