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On 10/29/2002 6:44:28 PM chipmunn wrote:
I am starting this thread as a grass roots campaign to find any way possible to reduce corporate costs. I would like you to post your idea here, with as much detail as possible. I am certainly not an expert and we need your help, but I want to learn about each department within our company to help our company not only survive, but thrive.
I have self appointed myself as a facilitator of this effort and if you provide a well thought out idea, I will insure it gets reviewed by senior management.
Thanks for your anticipated support and efforts. We need a team approach and I believe nobody knows how to fix problems more than the front line employees.
Thanks.
Chip
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The Tampa hangar is open on the weekends to accomodate approximately twenty mechanics each night working one airplane. We are spending an enormous amount of money to accomplish very little work. If they closed the hangar on the weekend, the manpower would be more eventy distributed and productive.
That said, I suggested it to management - who agreed with me in theory, but didn't think it could be done. Probably the whole idea of giving peon employees the weekend off is a deadly sin to some in management. Weekends off is THEIR little perk and they almost seem to enjoy seeing others work it.
Also, they just moved the maintenance planners off a compressed work week to five-eights. This was management and the IAM's retarded idea. (No, that wasn't a poor choice of words - it was downright moronic.) It created a personell shortage that didn't exist before hand, to begin with. It added in an additional turnover each day, which is an hour of lost productivity (at least). Plus, it really pissed off the employees, who made a heck of a lot of noise about it. Duh, it keeps us happy and saves money?! Why are we changing it.
Again, I think it comes down to some in managment who like to d-ck with employees with contracts in any way possible. They view a compressed work week as a special perk that should be taken away even if it costs more to do so.
Anyway, as you've all pointed out - this company is taking on water through the thousands of holes in it, but the answer is to throw us overboard. It may delay the sinking, but the holes are still there and the ship will sink.
However, our management corporate culture doesn't like change. Perhaps even moreso than the union employees. I've made my suggestions clear to management, even going to the point of writing to Siegel and several VPs about the compressed work week issue. No one really seemed to care.