EK Management
31st January 2008, 12:37
Attention Emirates Pilots.
At one of our fun board meetings a few weeks ago, it was noted that there had been a slight reduction in discontented posts on PPRUNE from you, the barely tolerated and lazy pilots. This could not be allowed to continue, as we do not want you to focus your attention on matters of real importance regarding our operation. Therefore, it was decided to arbitrarily alter one of the most important facets of your working existence. Your ability to bid and plan for days off.
This will now incense you to such an extent that all other matters will be ignored. We note that complaints concerning Flight and Duty Time Limitations and standard of crew rest facilities have stopped. You are now too busy trying to make sense of the latest development.
A couple of your senior managers and superiors argued that if this policy to restrict the number of days off was to be implemented, you should be notified through official channels. They soon saw the error of their ways. (That was easy. Continued gravy train or stand by the pilot group. It should come as no surprise as to their immediate decision). We find it regrettable that occasionally some of our managers have been unable to completely shed their first world baggage vis-à-vis reasonable and civilised behaviour towards the employee group. Particularly a group potentially as dangerous as you.
You will not be getting strings of days off in a row. You joined Emirates to work, and to increase the profits of the owners. We have no interest in your families and where they may be. Everything is provided for you in Dubai. You have no need to leave. This is the best country in the world. Eventually you will begin to believe that.
One of our more senior executive managers was concerned over his lack of quality rest. Sleep was impossible knowing that some pilots may have 10 or more days off in a row to rest and recuperate and enjoy family life. That situation is intolerable. We will not have the quality of rest of our important managers adversely affected.
Do not think that you can now implement what we know is commonly called PRA’s. This practice will be vigorously eliminated. Any pilot who travels overseas on his days off and then calls in sick for a duty between two blocks of days off will have his staff travel privileges immediately terminated. You can expect a follow up interview on your return to Dubai. You had better be able to convince us that you are still happy in your work here. You are a dime a dozen. In fact, as we lower the bar, you are more like 5 cents a dozen.
We will start to implement credit recovery if it becomes apparent to us that PRA’s are being used. We will apply your sick leave provisions of two weeks, something at the moment we have not done. You will not get paid if your sick leave exceeds two weeks in any one year. If you have more than two weeks of sick leave for other than readily identifiable accidents or provable sickness, your suitability for continued employment at Emirates will be questioned. We are only interested in employing machines that will do as they are told.
Now read the title of the post again. You have been warned.
Thank you. Keep up the hard work. You have no option.
EK Management.
At one of our fun board meetings a few weeks ago, it was noted that there had been a slight reduction in discontented posts on PPRUNE from you, the barely tolerated and lazy pilots. This could not be allowed to continue, as we do not want you to focus your attention on matters of real importance regarding our operation. Therefore, it was decided to arbitrarily alter one of the most important facets of your working existence. Your ability to bid and plan for days off.
This will now incense you to such an extent that all other matters will be ignored. We note that complaints concerning Flight and Duty Time Limitations and standard of crew rest facilities have stopped. You are now too busy trying to make sense of the latest development.
A couple of your senior managers and superiors argued that if this policy to restrict the number of days off was to be implemented, you should be notified through official channels. They soon saw the error of their ways. (That was easy. Continued gravy train or stand by the pilot group. It should come as no surprise as to their immediate decision). We find it regrettable that occasionally some of our managers have been unable to completely shed their first world baggage vis-à-vis reasonable and civilised behaviour towards the employee group. Particularly a group potentially as dangerous as you.
You will not be getting strings of days off in a row. You joined Emirates to work, and to increase the profits of the owners. We have no interest in your families and where they may be. Everything is provided for you in Dubai. You have no need to leave. This is the best country in the world. Eventually you will begin to believe that.
One of our more senior executive managers was concerned over his lack of quality rest. Sleep was impossible knowing that some pilots may have 10 or more days off in a row to rest and recuperate and enjoy family life. That situation is intolerable. We will not have the quality of rest of our important managers adversely affected.
Do not think that you can now implement what we know is commonly called PRA’s. This practice will be vigorously eliminated. Any pilot who travels overseas on his days off and then calls in sick for a duty between two blocks of days off will have his staff travel privileges immediately terminated. You can expect a follow up interview on your return to Dubai. You had better be able to convince us that you are still happy in your work here. You are a dime a dozen. In fact, as we lower the bar, you are more like 5 cents a dozen.
We will start to implement credit recovery if it becomes apparent to us that PRA’s are being used. We will apply your sick leave provisions of two weeks, something at the moment we have not done. You will not get paid if your sick leave exceeds two weeks in any one year. If you have more than two weeks of sick leave for other than readily identifiable accidents or provable sickness, your suitability for continued employment at Emirates will be questioned. We are only interested in employing machines that will do as they are told.
Now read the title of the post again. You have been warned.
Thank you. Keep up the hard work. You have no option.
EK Management.