Where has all the moral gone?!
I have just finished my first shift on HLS, and boy do i wish i hadnt started!
I was fortunate(?) enough to be on guard over xmas and missed the start of the new lean HLS. I thought you may like a Lineys before and after view.
My last shift in Nov on A line was good, lots of happy techies doing what they love, fixing a/c. We had good comardary, morale tho not sky high was at a happy level, comms was good with everyone knowing were we where in the 'big picture' and most importantly our 'customers' were getting what they wanted.
Now to the this shift. I walked in the crew room first morning back to see not a smile or happy face. The atmosfere was darker than a mourge. I went over to control to find out the program only to be ushered out because of no sgt or c/t stripes on my arm! When I asked what work/program was going to be like the answer was "You dont need to know!"
It appears that now the only way we find out when work is needed to be done is when our team laeder finds us and tells us what to do. Gone are the trade desk diarys, the tombs of so much history, information and jobs. This now means that jobs are being forgotten about and missed. I have even heard that a/c have been flying without valid servicings! When things like that get missed something very wrong is going on!
Comms seems to have broken down completly, yesterday an a/c landed at 11am its second sortie was cancelled and this was only found out 6pm. 5 hours after it should have departed on its next trip!
We used to have a big board 20ft wide by 8ft tall with every a/c on it so EVERYONE could see what was were and what needed doing. Everything from servicings to battery changes.
Now this is all within the first month, people are losing what little is left of there moral, and a few are starting not to even care.
Sod all the lean be more flexable crap, when people start to not even care about there work the accidents will happen. People I know that used to work 7 till 7 without break or complaint, proud of the work they did are being slowly broken and worn down. I dont know about others but I am scared of what will come.
Sorry for length but I needed to say this. Remember this is after ONE MONTH, just think what it will be like when the remaining few have been broken down.
