For a little background, please read topics "Show me the Money" and "Area of Concession".
The point of those two topics is there are and have been means for the company to operate more efficiently, and save money. The company has not availed itself of those methods.
1. Overtime - Management has the responsibilities for determining overtime, calling it out, and administrating it. They routinely fail in all three areas. Yet they never held themselves accountable or responsible. They hated paid bypass because for once, they were held accountable for their actions, and there was a pricetag. Yet even managers that ran up some high tabs due to sheer incompetence were never disciplined. The company absorbed the costs of bypass rather than do so, and lie in wait for the first chance to abolish it. It was high on the concessions list.
You have to ask yourselves, if an employee group were costing the company millions thru incompetence, what would be the results then?
In effect, on this issue - and it is indicative of larger ones - the company is saying, we are too lazy and arrogant to perform our duties correctly, we will not be accountable to the likes of employees, and we want employees to bear the costs of our sloth. And even better, even though we are setting a piss-poor example by doing this, we WILL sit in harsh judgement of any error employees make.
2. Cross-utilization - the company loves the union bogeyman - that bad ole' union is why we're losing money. I beg to differ. Cross-utilization has been available to the company pre-and post contracts, and they have sole discretion to excercise it. They never have, yet they keep coming here and whining 'work rules.' Hey, howzabout usin' whatcha got for a change?
Again, the company is too lazy or incompetent to use this flexibility, which would save them millions.
So now, the main points.
The company is losing money for two reasons. We have a failed business plan, and in order for it to be viable, employees would have to subsidize it at a rate most would find unacceptable. And we inefficiently execute the plan that we have, witness the ot and cross-utilization issues. It has been said a well executed mediocre plan is better than a poorly executed superior plan. We have neither.
No employee wants to see this company fail. We are honorably doing our part. But we can't do it alone.
Last point. Continued concessions are like someone going back to an abusive spouse. What do you think is going to change?
OK, rant off, and thank you for your time.
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I am a former employee of a former airline
The point of those two topics is there are and have been means for the company to operate more efficiently, and save money. The company has not availed itself of those methods.
1. Overtime - Management has the responsibilities for determining overtime, calling it out, and administrating it. They routinely fail in all three areas. Yet they never held themselves accountable or responsible. They hated paid bypass because for once, they were held accountable for their actions, and there was a pricetag. Yet even managers that ran up some high tabs due to sheer incompetence were never disciplined. The company absorbed the costs of bypass rather than do so, and lie in wait for the first chance to abolish it. It was high on the concessions list.
You have to ask yourselves, if an employee group were costing the company millions thru incompetence, what would be the results then?
In effect, on this issue - and it is indicative of larger ones - the company is saying, we are too lazy and arrogant to perform our duties correctly, we will not be accountable to the likes of employees, and we want employees to bear the costs of our sloth. And even better, even though we are setting a piss-poor example by doing this, we WILL sit in harsh judgement of any error employees make.
2. Cross-utilization - the company loves the union bogeyman - that bad ole' union is why we're losing money. I beg to differ. Cross-utilization has been available to the company pre-and post contracts, and they have sole discretion to excercise it. They never have, yet they keep coming here and whining 'work rules.' Hey, howzabout usin' whatcha got for a change?
Again, the company is too lazy or incompetent to use this flexibility, which would save them millions.
So now, the main points.
The company is losing money for two reasons. We have a failed business plan, and in order for it to be viable, employees would have to subsidize it at a rate most would find unacceptable. And we inefficiently execute the plan that we have, witness the ot and cross-utilization issues. It has been said a well executed mediocre plan is better than a poorly executed superior plan. We have neither.
No employee wants to see this company fail. We are honorably doing our part. But we can't do it alone.
Last point. Continued concessions are like someone going back to an abusive spouse. What do you think is going to change?
OK, rant off, and thank you for your time.
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I am a former employee of a former airline
