Agreed. I posted earlier that we shouldn’t be surprised when a snake behaves as one. That includes in response to actions by various groups of employees to shame Qantas into taking the reasonable and sensible steps they should have taken in the first place.
Having made this dumb decision now, what in Qantas previous history suggests they’ll think to themselves ‘oops, got that wrong’ instead of doubling down on their idiocy and going hard at those who point out the underlying callousness of their actions. To be honest they’re probably still trying to work out why everyone is being so ‘ungrateful’ at the largesse they’ve handed out.
The stupidity of this own goal is that as somone else pointed out, instead of the media (both mainstream and social) narrative being about a record profit (and ‘awesome management’), it’s all about this duplicitous act. It’s further confirmed in the public’s eye the image of Joyce and Qantas as being a bunch of callous dills.