let's try chinese instead...................Youhou
Is that Captain Youhou or First Officer Youhou?
Always remember 1thing with netjets: if things improve, it might not last for long. You are happy with the 6/5, fine ...but I already had it in my contract when I joined more than 3years ago!
As you might imagine falconbiz I've spent an hour or two wondering how and why the company behave like this and I realised the best way to understand is to put myself in their shoes. So, here I am (theoretically) running the place, ok? I'm in charge.
Unfortunately I have a few problems. A few years ago for example I had to stop losing money so I thought I would make the crew work harder. Change their roster from the contracted 6/5 and have them work more days a month. Sure, they'll bitch and I'll lose a couple but the net result will be more flying hours per crewmember and that will offset the cost of replacing those who resign. I forced the new arrangement on them, after all there was nothing they could do as their contracts were worthless, and got away with it for a few years. Certainly long enough to recoup the extra training costs but after a while they began bitching that I was flogging them too hard.
So I gave them back their 6/5 and looked for another way to squeeze them. Now fortunately my crew are scattered across Europe which, despite what the EU would have you believe, is a fractured mess. I've been using this to my advantage for a few years so why not do it again? I'm going to have to give them something but I'm damned if I will do it until I have to so I'll pay a fancy consultancy to come in and conduct a survey. I doubt I'll pay much attention to what they tell me because I already know what my crew want and I'm ignoring them already but I shall make sure they drag the process out to buy me a few more months. During that time the experienced crew can train up the new hires (I'll need to ramp up the recruitment process) so that when people catch on to what I'm up to and resign I'll have enough crew to take up the slack.
That worked, and I'm now ready for the next stage. These annoying people want me to make their employment legitimate, tax and pensions sort of thing. Now this is a biggie, if I get this wrong I could lose a lot of crew so here's what I'll do. I'll fabricate something like a tri-lateral agreement and impose ANOTHER new contract. It won't hold up under scrutiny but it doesn't really have to because what I'm again is casting my bait and judging the response. I shall give it a nice long lead in time with a deadline of, say, December. I will carefully watch the rate of resignations and if the buggers start to become organised and set up a union I will have to do something else. In the meantime though it's buying me time and saving me lots of money.
All purely theoretical of course and any resemblance to actual events is entirely coincidental
