Capot:
But whatever the rights and wrongs of your case, for f***s sake spare us the sanctimonious bull and crocodile tears of ................
Sorry if you feel I was being sanctimonious. I prefer sincerity. You can, of course, choose as you wish.
You are using your customers - the travelling public - and their anger and inconvenience as your weapon. That's what strikes are for. So cut the c**p.
Er, no Capot, BA management are using our passengers as their weapon of choice. Time & again, day in, day out, we voluntarily break our industrial agreements to keep the show on the road for the
benefit of the travelling public (and rightly so). BA are now using our 'can-do, must-do' attitude against us-they think we will capitulate in the face of bad press and public disquiet in order to beat us. Sadly, this time, we've had enough. I will shed no tears, crocodile or otherwise, but I will (sanctimoniously) feel truly sorry for Joe Public caught in the crossfire....
If you want to get on your high-horse then suit yourself. It speaks volumes to me when all that someone can retort with is a bunch of expletives.
Skydrol Leak wrote:
I can not believe all the moaning and complaints from these BA people! Face the fact that you are one of the "chosen" and more fortunate in UK more than any person working for easy, Ryanair,eastern or for that matter Air Berlin etc...
Be happy what you have,since 85% of people doing your job in this industry don't have the chance to even get their parking paid so...bugger off.
You've obviously come in to this debate and shot from the hip.
I would "be happy what you have" except that BA are going to use OpenSkies as a means of doing away with "what I have". I do consider myself more fortunate than others in this industry, but why would I want to let BA have its cake & eat it? So that I can be bitter & twisted in 5 years time wishing I'd had the backbone to stand up to these Corporate Muggers in 2008? I don't think so. I've given them increased productivity (~30% since c2001). I've given them 22% of my pension (2006/7) and I've given them licence to mess with my roster more to solve
their Work Coverage problem. I'm not going to stand by and have them take my CURRENT T&Cs and have them supplanted with OS T&Cs without a fight.
since 85% of people doing your job in this industry don't have the chance to even get their parking paid so...bugger off
I don't get my parking paid either...costs me £400/year. And what's that got to do with the price of fish? Another cogent argument. Another expletive.
You're going to have to do better than that to convince me & my colleagues that we are all wrong and you are right.
I'm beginning to see why most of my colleagues avoid this site like the plague...you need the patience of a saint. Too many people jump in without educating themselves. Differing viewpoints I can take, but ignorance.........
Regards
id