A/C Slave is spot on!
FLS is not far off having the 'last rites' read to it.
The proliforation of 'management schemes' such as 'Formula 1' (great, until an inspection gets missed, and the results are seen on the TV news)....it's all been seen before, TQM, Investors in People (ho, ho, ho, sick joke).
FLS will never get anywhere if it can't attract the engineers, and it won't help it's cause by pulling stunts like opening GLA line, then closing it a month later...who the hell would want to drop everything to go and work for a 'management' so clueless???
This particular incident is just plain cruel, it simply sums up what most of us already know, that FLS has got just about the same prospects for survival as Tony Blair's Millennium Dome (doom).
As for the Maintrol situation, the feedback is that the individual doing the line planning has now progressed to the engineers desk, going beyond 'very dangerous' to '****ing suicidal'.
Yes, FLS is in it's death throes, the incidents listed here are just a couple of many, low morale, gash management, cronyism...and so it goes on.