Greenpeace

[alistairuk]

Do you even get paid for working for em? (Clearly I am not the volunteering type)

[billwillis]

Most of the crew positions are paid ones. Have mooch at their recruitment website.

[IFHP]

Greenpeace vessels are monitored by intelligence services - not for private company reasons more TRIDENT etc, very surprised to hear that someone who once worked for them cleared security but maybe they look at working and volunteering as 2 different things plus they are not an illegal organisation anyway.

Personally I wouldn't touch them with a 6ft stick that had poo on the end of it - I find the organisation completing lacking in integrity and they have been shown to be complete lying gits (de-commissioning of shell platform).

[Clanky]

This raises questions about the competence of the Defence Vetting Agency! Unless he was an undercover agent of the authorities.

LOL What?

This guy could not have been an agent of anything other than destruction every time he lifted a spanner.

He was quite open about it when he signed the sponsored reserve papers, so it was nothing to do with the competence or otherwise of any MoD agency, it was obviously just a decision made where they decided that having been an engineer on a Greenpeace ship didn't make him a threat to national security, they made me a lieutenant commander despite a rather colourful family history (again all fully declared at the sponsored reserve induction process, although I thought the guy doing the induction was going to choke when I told him that I had an uncle who I thought might have been in the IRA!)

[Lewis]

If they started durring down people because of their politics i would imagine they would end up at an employment tribunal. I'm sure their more interested in crimes and your finance (prevents bribery). Unless your from northern ireland then you need a certificate from the police that says your not a terrorist.

[GuinnessMan]

If they started durring down people because of their politics i would imagine they would end up at an employment tribunal. I'm sure their more interested in crimes and your finance (prevents bribery). Unless your from northern ireland then you need a certificate from the police that says your not a terrorist.

*cough* national security *cough*

Plus, if it says on your CV that you worked for Greenpeace and were a greenpeace junkie, then they don't have to hire you at all....

[Clanky]

If they started durring down people because of their politics i would imagine they would end up at an employment tribunal. I'm sure their more interested in crimes and your finance (prevents bribery). Unless your from northern ireland then you need a certificate from the police that says your not a terrorist.

Have to say that I have never had a certificate from the police to say that I am not a terrorist. When I did the RNR induction there were a set of security questions that had to be answered, one of them was something like "have you or a close family member ever been a member of e terrorist organisation?", I told the guy that I had a few suspicions about my uncle and I had to go for a security interview with 2 nice chaps in suits from Whitehall who told me that because I was up front about the whole thing and because the peace process now means that we all love each other and there is no more of all that silliness that it wouldn't be a problem.

[Lewis]

When i joined the TA one of the guys who was joining at same time was from NI and could attest till he got a leter from the police saying he wasnt a terrorist.