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777vs330 · 30th April 2009, 04:40

skycatzSia Svp
The current SVP at SIA is the most useless, spineless, lack of leadership SVP that SIA has ever had in its history.

Absolutely 100% concurred. Evidence? If only you have attended the dialogue session he just conducted for the boys.

Now back to the topic.
King on the wing.
The way I see it, you're not in the company long enough to even smell what's coming. Gerald Y wants you to think CNPL is necessary, if you agree, why stop at 3? Why not 6? 10 is even better, that way we all will have our jobs for sure for next 10years? You know what, why don't all of us expats in SQ, come up and offer 10days CNPL each in return for our jobs, let's see what will they say shall we??

Here's what's factual. Regardless of the ALPAS position, which I seriously wont give a hood about. I know for the fact that they will continue to NOT renew the expats contract. Try asking the top performing expat captain who scored big time by fuel saving suggestion (mentioned somewhere on other thread as well), saves the company by the MILLIONS/Year, and his contract? NOT RENEWED.
If there's anything to it, flight ops is trying to push this down by imposing fear amongst its pilots. I sure know what GY & the gang want, they want to keep the pilots, at the reduced cost so that they achieve the KPI they need for their managerial bonoses/renewal. Don't be fooled, look around more intently and observe with shrewd sense. They will do what they WANT to do, not what is needed to be done.

To prove it, my own local sources tell me that there have been so many forthcoming suggestions on how more flexible no payleave scheme (Eg. Shorter work month with more no pay leave supplementing offdays for those interested) could be further explored. And guess what? Again you'd get your answers from the dialogue session. HE IS NOT INTERESTED. He wants you to go on HIS PLAN, not yours. His frivolous response made you wonder how on earth did he even get the job as SVP in the first place. There was no attempt, and even a pretended one, to consider some of the very good and relevant suggestions from the floor.

[SIZE2]It's indeed a sad era now in SIA, that the pilots have to be convinced that when the company is doing fine, we have to take the cut to sustain profitability. [/size]Swine flu is mentioned, by our beloved flt ops. Not for highlighting the care for the frontline crew health safety, but for the bottom-line of company with an opportune and timely plea to accept the proposed CNPL. Only after someone wrote a critical comment to highlight the screw up, they promptly re-issued another one, please, go search the order of the circulars issued to further verify their trend of thoughts and mindset.

Lastly, try read the book "who moved my cheese?". It's really a short and nice read. Should have been more prepared as an expat. As I certainly do. My contract renewal is coming up next year, the way I see it: NO

chance!!

30th April 2009, 04:40	#6 (permalink)
777vs330 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: SG Age: 44 Posts: 15	skycatzSia Svp The current SVP at SIA is the most useless, spineless, lack of leadership SVP that SIA has ever had in its history. Absolutely 100% concurred. Evidence? If only you have attended the dialogue session he just conducted for the boys. Now back to the topic. King on the wing. The way I see it, you're not in the company long enough to even smell what's coming. Gerald Y wants you to think CNPL is necessary, if you agree, why stop at 3? Why not 6? 10 is even better, that way we all will have our jobs for sure for next 10years? You know what, why don't all of us expats in SQ, come up and offer 10days CNPL each in return for our jobs, let's see what will they say shall we?? Here's what's factual. Regardless of the ALPAS position, which I seriously wont give a hood about. I know for the fact that they will continue to NOT renew the expats contract. Try asking the top performing expat captain who scored big time by fuel saving suggestion (mentioned somewhere on other thread as well), saves the company by the MILLIONS/Year, and his contract? NOT RENEWED. If there's anything to it, flight ops is trying to push this down by imposing fear amongst its pilots. I sure know what GY & the gang want, they want to keep the pilots, at the reduced cost so that they achieve the KPI they need for their managerial bonoses/renewal. Don't be fooled, look around more intently and observe with shrewd sense. They will do what they WANT to do, not what is needed to be done. To prove it, my own local sources tell me that there have been so many forthcoming suggestions on how more flexible no payleave scheme (Eg. Shorter work month with more no pay leave supplementing offdays for those interested) could be further explored. And guess what? Again you'd get your answers from the dialogue session. HE IS NOT INTERESTED. He wants you to go on HIS PLAN, not yours. His frivolous response made you wonder how on earth did he even get the job as SVP in the first place. There was no attempt, and even a pretended one, to consider some of the very good and relevant suggestions from the floor. [SIZE2]It's indeed a sad era now in SIA, that the pilots have to be convinced that when the company is doing fine, we have to take the cut to sustain profitability. [/size]Swine flu is mentioned, by our beloved flt ops. Not for highlighting the care for the frontline crew health safety, but for the bottom-line of company with an opportune and timely plea to accept the proposed CNPL. Only after someone wrote a critical comment to highlight the screw up, they promptly re-issued another one, please, go search the order of the circulars issued to further verify their trend of thoughts and mindset. Lastly, try read the book "who moved my cheese?". It's really a short and nice read. Should have been more prepared as an expat. As I certainly do. My contract renewal is coming up next year, the way I see it: NO chance!!