Fine - I think you got it in one - selfishness.
BACC/BA implanted secondees at GSS because they felt they could. The secondments don't directly affect me significantly, but I have sympathy for our f/os well down the list for whom the secondments are thoroughly demoralising. BACC/BALPA lacked any such empathy for them when the secondments arrangement was conceived.
Of all the solutions possible to address scope's aims, this one really was atrocious, and may have f/o crewing consequences in the coming months. I believe one chap who has an offer with a major, has said outright to ES that if the secondments are stopped then he would likely stay.
Last edited by Jack's a dull boy; 15th Jun 2005 at 12:05.