is the crappy [low cost] management they have.
Found this on a
VB pilot blog the other day (author unknown). Nothing appears to have been done about it (despite formal complaints to a Lead Ostrich) so I thought it prudent to make the
VA Management Philosophy Towards Pilots more widely known......
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just for those tempted to go and work for V here is a look at who you will be dealing with. About 3 weeks ago the V HR manager stood up in front of a classroom of new employees, new Development Managers and new cabin crew instructors, and told her captive audience how much she loved people and their individual qualities yadda yadda yadda... she didn't waste to much time in proclaiming that V prefered to not to deal with unions in their workplace. They felt that it made for a better relationship to deal directly with their employees instead of having to go through a third party for every exchange. Eventually within the context of this particular rant her eyes rolled and she declared to all the new staff that "pilots.... well lets just say that pilots live a world of their own." The message was that pilots, in her not even remotely humble opinion, thought they were special and above all other employees. There were three further subtle, less overt remarks made during the drab presentation which also undermined the pilots in the company and set a foul tone towards the pilot group with these new employees ....."
Could this be the norm for Management behaviour at VA?
Do VA Managers have to abide by fair workplace policies? Judging by the comments of this particular manager, it looks as though they are exempt.
Aren't HR supposed to embody the 'culture' of a company? Scary stuff if this one does.
Aren't HR Managers supposed to be advocates of the employer AND the employee? Maybe VA HR is exempt from this particular traditional role.
What did the VA Flight Ops Manager have to say about this? Or was he/she the Lead Ostrich mentioned above?
Sounds to me like a good place to avoid.