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Old 24th Oct 2008, 12:18
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BeGoneTFN
 
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Max1,

Could not have put it any better myself.

Dick,

ASA is a terrible mess, the writing has been on the wall for nearly three years now and the situation is getting desperate.

I love my job, I had a real passion for the opportunities that existed these however are all now non existant, the management of the place has literally driven us into the ground.

I pose the question.

Just because I am a shiftworker why should there be an expectation that I will work on my days off to keep the place running, no end in sight to this requirement because it has now become the norm due to mismanagement. How am I any different to someone who works in finance 9-5, that may want to enjoy time with the family on the weekend and not be constantly irritable and fatigued?

Why should my entitlement to enjoy my free time be any less?

Controllers have individually had enough, to be honest even if the Union did not exist the same result would transpire.

I finished a night shift a while ago at 6am and by 10am the phone was ringing to fill shifts for that afternoon, talk about sense of humour failure!

Little wonder everyone that can is leaving!

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