Ironic how the wheel turns.
About 2 months ago, I made a post in response to TD's letter to Purser's. I ended my post with the following question
Who wants to support indifferent cabin crew with an attitude?
My question/statement still stands and it's encouraging to see that some, who questioned my motives, are now in support of the statement.
Before anyone jumps in the air screaming nonsensical rubbish;
1. There is no implication in my question that the terminology "indifferent" applies to all cabin crew, far from it.
2. If you chose to paraphrase the question to read "Who wants to support indifferent flight deck with an attitude?" Don't bother, but feel free to start another thread.
There will always be individual employees in any large organisation that need to be retrained or relegated. TD has been tasked with changing IFS direction and part of that change will involve dealing with (because no one else has) inept crew managers.
The word on the street from many crew is that they are pleased to see the changes and fear nothing themselves because they are not indifferent and have the right attitude. I am going to continue to support cabin crew in their role, as undoubtedly many other flight deck will because that's part of our job.
Mr Ree is right to a point. You just can't be Mr Nice Guy with everybody but fortunately for us, it's obvious who deserves our support and who doesn't. I don't think we should throw away CRM for a moment, but we are all guilty of only pursuing the most blatant of behaviour. There comes a time where CRM has been exhausted on an individual and they need to be passed to the next level up. Having reliable cabin crew management will be a great asset for all concerned and personally I can't wait for the dust to settle because I believe that we will all be better for it.