That memo from DOB is typical FR rubbish.
Just to refresh in your minds some of the actions of fr management in the past.
1. Senior FR Capt accused of making intimidating phone calls. Person to whom management alledged the phone calls were made to said he never received such calls yet FR management pressed ahead and ended up losing big in the High Court.
2. Former chief pilots daughter (f/o) correctly offloaded herself at an outstation due to a conflict with a Capt. FR management fired her. It ended up in the High Court.FR lost and ended up apologising to her in the Court!
3.Former head of the pilot body representing the DUB pilots was too much of a handful for MOL and his cronies. One issue that the company were refusing to budge on was having confirmed seats on FR flights for positioning crew on duty. Next time the guy turned up to position on duty, mols lackys fabricated a story about him refusing to position on a jumpseat, he was offloaded and later fired. At the Labour Court, FR couldnt produce any witness that heard him refuse to position on the jumpseat.
Is a pattern developing? Putting it mildly it is no great secret that difficulties exists between DUB based pilots and management over 800 conversions and continual breaches of the working agreement by management.It is obvious whats going on here. The guy in question was rumoured to be leaving, so FR saw their chance to once again try and send a message out to the rest of the pilots as to who is in charge and what will happen if you do not do as they tell you. If he is leaving why not do this to him anyway? As for the so called 'mandatory retrospective roster change' ask any FR pilot what this means (except the ones who made it up in this case to try and nail the guy )and they ll all say 'mandatory what'. It doesn't exist, if it did you ld have plenty of other crews in the doghouse as well.
Have flown with the guy in question many times, this is not his form and he s helped the company out on many occasions in the past. FR is a place where you are guilty until proven innocent(which doesn t matter in their eyes anyway).
Get with the programme.Why would they publish that crap on the company website, GRIM REPA you hit the nail on the head, more spin and propaganda!
Going for a DUFF.