Top 2 Air Force Officials to Resign

[Lauri]

Ok let me put this to you in the form of a question.

Your boss tell you that you can either "resign or be fired".

Which do you do?

Which one do you tell your potential future employer when you apply for another job?

well, that's what i'm saying.. the Air Force is allowing everyone to save face by asking for resignations. the officers can go forward and not have their lives ruined, and the Air Force can move forward without a big public inquiry. even though one should probably be forthcoming, i doubt it is.

it allows the situation to cool down and the officers to not go out and speak about it, since the Air Force didnt bring them up on charges of any sort.

[TheSarge]

well, that's what i'm saying.. the Air Force is allowing everyone to save face by asking for resignations. the officers can go forward and not have their lives ruined, and the Air Force can move forward without a big public inquiry. even though one should probably be forthcoming, i doubt it is.

it allows the situation to cool down and the officers to not go out and speak about it, since the Air Force didnt bring them up on charges of any sort.

Agreed.  But there are some that are saying they were fired...officially the resigned.

To say they were fired...with the information available...is factually in-accurate.

That's all I was trying to say in the first place.

[djones520]

In "essence", they where fired, but as far as job applications, they resigned.  Now when both of them move on to become CEO's of some major company, they won't have that nasty black mark of being removed from their previous job by Congress.

[Lauri]

well, that's what i'm saying.. the Air Force is allowing everyone to save face by asking for resignations. the officers can go forward and not have their lives ruined, and the Air Force can move forward without a big public inquiry. even though one should probably be forthcoming, i doubt it is.

it allows the situation to cool down and the officers to not go out and speak about it, since the Air Force didnt bring them up on charges of any sort.

Agreed.  But there are some that are saying they were fired...officially the resigned.

To say they were fired...with the information available...is factually in-accurate.

That's all I was trying to say in the first place.

ok, i understand your position. i guess i never heard they were asked to resign.. but it still means they didnt just decide to resign on their own. they were put in that position by the higher ups.

but i get what you're saying..

[Lauri]

In "essence", they where fired, but as far as job applications, they resigned.  Now when both of them move on to become CEO's of some major company, they won't have that nasty black mark of being removed from their previous job by Congress.

why would Congress have to remove anything from their records? If they are civilians soon enough... why would Congress be involved at all? Not being snarky... just dont know what the correlation is.

[djones520]

In "essence", they where fired, but as far as job applications, they resigned.  Now when both of them move on to become CEO's of some major company, they won't have that nasty black mark of being removed from their previous job by Congress.

why would Congress have to remove anything from their records? If they are civilians soon enough... why would Congress be involved at all? Not being snarky... just dont know what the correlation is.

No, they could only have been forcibly removed from their positions by Congress.  So if they where to have been officially fired, then Congress would have been the one dropping the axe.  You don't want it on your resume that it took an act of congress to remove you from your last job.

[Lauri]

In "essence", they where fired, but as far as job applications, they resigned.  Now when both of them move on to become CEO's of some major company, they won't have that nasty black mark of being removed from their previous job by Congress.

why would Congress have to remove anything from their records? If they are civilians soon enough... why would Congress be involved at all? Not being snarky... just dont know what the correlation is.

No, they could only have been forcibly removed from their positions by Congress.  So if they where to have been officially fired, then Congress would have been the one dropping the axe.  You don't want it on your resume that it took an act of congress to remove you from your last job.

ahhh, i didnt realize that was the actual term for it.. and again, i learn so much on message boards.