Originally Posted by
Me Me Me Me
The arrogance and blatant selfishness that's dressed up so often on here as a sense of injustice no longer angers me... I find it amusing.
"These bean-counters in CTC having another meeting!!! OUTRAGEOUS!! We are in a credit crunch and we should be tightening our belt and cutting out this useless waste!!"
Totally with you here, highly amusing to read the arguments from ignorance. I particularly enjoy comments along the lines "There are groups in the CTC having meetings and I don't know what they do but they're no doubt just wasting time because they're all dross over there." The implication being that because the poster doesn't know what someone else does that person is a waster (or dross), showing off the posters ignorance
Just as an aside on the perceptions that most of the CTC staff sit around in Starbucks drinking coffee all day. NATS CTC accomodates a large number of staff (not all of whoms primary task require them to be there, its just the central place now everywhere else has closed) and Starbucks is relatively small so it will look busy when people have their breaks (shock horror! Staff who are not mandated to have breaks also have them! Eekkk!)
Additionally all of the offices (apart from the senior executives) are open plan. Its disruptive to other staff who are working at their desks if you decide to have a meeting of only 1 or 2 people at your desk. So Starbucks and the foyer area is a very good place to have these small meetings.
Its apparent from comments in this thread how little the operational staff are aware of the pressure to reduce staff in the non operational areas is. From posts being gapped to retirees not being replaced to contractors being let go to ATCO staff being squeezed to go back into Ops and so it goes on. But there is no reduction on the demand for resources to deliver everything thats expected.
BD
p.s. There are 'support' grades within the ATSA grading as well, ATC Technical & Support (T&S)
