Originally Posted by
ChrissyPrezzie
It's really funny to see how FM responded on the current selection process, and you can't help but start wondering if FM is one of the management guys, coz his view is pretty much in line with CX leadership. Yes, by spreading the net you will get as many fishes as you want in a short period of time, but at the same time, you are dividing your soldiers as well. Guys in the previous system will always look down on the ones that come after them, and guys who joined the workforce now will always feel being looked down by the ones in higher rank. Whitsunday is a great example as he is a local. The workforce has been so divided for years between expats and locals. What CX should do as a leader is to unite their soldiers as one voice, instead they are using some cheeky tactics to screw them. Idiots. This will fire back. Mark my words.
It's almost as if I was trying to understand and explain the current selection process from the pov of CX Management. I am not one of the management guys, but thank you for acknowledging I did a great job.
Some of you don't seem to understand that CX Captains don't make the rules despite what the word "captain" may imply; management does. And to put it harshly, the people in management don't give a **** about your struggles. They are here to help CX make a profit, raise their stock price, answer to the shareholders, and fatten their own piggy bank through bonuses/stocks. So when whitsunday asked me what I thought CX's intentions were, I answered from CX management's pov because that's the only one that matters whether you agree with them or not. Whatever internal conflicts you mentioned and other complaints pilots raised are irrelevant to management. Besides, it's pretty clear the end goal is to replace most, if not all, expensive expats with locals, so why would management care about some temporary internal conflicts? You said the workforce has been divided for years between expats and locals, yet the company still hasn't collapsed. Perhaps unhappy pilots don't have much of an impact on their bottom line?
So what will happen when/if demand returns and they don't have enough pilots? Well they will have to increase compensations to attract and retain pilots. It's a free market and everyone --
and I really do mean everyone -- has a price. If the price is right, more than enough people will put their hatred for CX and the HK/Beijing government aside to come work for CX and live in a shoe box as they have done for many, many years. Mark my words.
This is
NOT to say I agree with them, but this is the harsh reality. I sound like one of the management guys again, don't I?