As ex BA staff I frequent a forum for ex staff from the regions and this little nugget has been posted which sums up BA management to a tee.
"One of Willy Walshs' henchmen rang
Manchester on Thursday or Friday (i wont mention any names as i dont
want to get anyone into trouble)and asked if they could send as many
spare staff from Manchester as they possibly could down to T5 to help
out in all the chaos of T5,Err,there is no staff at Manchester ha
ha,the person was told all BA staff were made redundant last August
and this person was shocked as he didnt know,he then said he would
ring Glasgow Err there are no staff there either.Apparantly this
person couldn't believe there were no staff at the regionals as Willy
had disposed of us all.