tewkesbury

Those of you who know me , know I always refer to my previous employer as B****** Airways, and I have have had a little bit of flack from individuals over this reference, but after reading an article in the ALEA, that first appeared in The SocialistWorker, never again will this be light haarted. Next time I say it will be with real venomn. Please read and prepare to be sick and disgusted that the said individuals at B*****d Airways(especialy Chicken shit Fred & McDonald) could behave like this, I hope they all rot in Hell.

BA management and ‘lighter side’ of job cuts|31May08|Socialist Worker

Mr.Brown

I was actually shocked when I read the article in this months Tech log issue. I could not believe that they would act in such a manner when whole families suffered as a result of their actions.
I'd even venture to say that BA management are not the only one's with this attitude!

Toolman101

Twenty years after I left from the merger carnage at LGW they haven't changed. The people may change but the culture doesn't

Ned Coates

I've been gone over ten years and cannot understand how anyone not desperate and with any self respect, could work for an organisation dedicated to screwing over engineering staff worldwide. Either desperate or terminally dim. Yep, there's only two categories.

Ned

Desk Jockey

Because we allow them to do it.

The Expert

I have no great love for Socialist Worker et al but it is good to be reminded of what a cut-throat low life shower BA management is.
Their business acumen is legendary.
In 1998 BA wanted a budget airline – so they started up Go. Less than a year later they changed their mind and so they didn’t want a budget airline, so they sold Go. With the money that raised, they then wanted a regional airline. But they already had one; Brymon. So they bought out BRAL and MANX for £78m, merged them into one. They paid millions to a firm of management consultants to come up with the name BA CitiExpress – couldn’t even spell. A first year pupil at secondary school could have come up with better than that.
They told the workers that BACX would be left well alone to do what they did best and without interference – then they immediately interfered once they had asset stripped the company and achieved their real prize – the profitable routes and even more importantly - the Manx Heathrow slots.
And when they started to close down stations, engineers and crews either had to move or lose their jobs at massive disruption to their family and personal lives.
And there were many cases where BA then moved new staff straight in again in blatant direct contravention to redundancy laws. BA couldn’t care about being taken to Industrial Tribunals and losing, the costs were small and were simply written off. BA made sure that any staff who took the company to an IndTib were bad-mouthed and black-listed throughout the industry.

When BA was sold off and privatised under Mrs Thatcher’s government in the 1980s, a no compulsory redundancy agreement was reached with existing staff. This meant that all future redundancies were carried out on staff who had been subsequently sucked in and taken over! There is a huge number of original BA staff who said that they were not offered ‘a suitable alternative’ position and then have gone off on gardening leave for years and years.

BA pulled flights out of Inverness in the late 1990s. Guess who carries out de-icing and ticketing and ground support at Inverness but who have no direct operation?
Guess who had a One World travel shop in the city centre in Inverness?
Who would all like a job for life that is bullet proof, fire proof and atomic bomb proof?
The above would be rejected as too fanciful as a script for Ricky Gervaise in ‘The Office’

Don’t mention :-

• the multi-tail colour scheme.
• Terminal 5
• discrimination against a woman of active Christian faith – because she wore a small and unobtrusive crucifix necklace.
• Richard Branson

And the first posting above on this thread clearly shows how little they higher management think about their loyal and dedicated staff.

Re-Heat

I'm not sure you could describe BA management as cut-throat...perhaps "at each others' throats" might better describe the incompetence and empire-building present in the organisation?