.......A Captain retires with 35+ year's service. He gets a photocopy of his retirement letter, endorsed with a stamp from HR acknowledging same. An office person of less than two year's service a big write up in the newsletter and a send off...What does that tell you??
Virtually nothing. I believe that any retirement send-offs have always been arranged by the prospective retiree's colleagues. Qantas does not and did not fund retirement bashes. Perhaps AIPA needs a 'social set' to arrange farewell functions for departing colleagues, or is the AIPA membership too self-centred to really care what happens to the work-mates once they stop paying membership fees?