He was appointed to deliver the "Two-Centre Strategy", and deliver it he will, (On time and on cost)!
Allegedly, he has already purchased a tartan bow-tie for the opening ceremony.
That's probably why there is the big rush to move Oceanic across the road, so that he can trumpet that the new Centre is officially open. Even although there will be no presence from Scottish and Manchester at that point.
There's a couple of things our esteemed leader seems to have overlooked - firstly, he has no clear idea about how many MACC folks will be coming up the road, and therefore how viable it will be to make that part of the Ops Room operational. Secondly, he (through his management) seems to think that everyone at Scottish will be falling over themselves to give their rostered days off up and come in for OCT for some time in lieu (wow, what an offer, how can we refuse) or maybe a few hundred pounds bung (non Op AAVAs = cheap labour). We're almost in the planned year of opening and the management still haven't come to the unions to put all this to them formally (and be told to get stuffed I bet) or to publicise their great master plan of how they are going to lead the horse to the water and make him drink.
You can expect a lot of resistance to any poor OCT 'deal'. There is precedent with Swanwick and TC regarding appropriate remuneration. Something similar for us or forget it on days off. Alternatively they could try and take half of the staff out of the Ops Room on each rostered day and fill the blanks with AAVAs. Again, one would hope that they would find a lot of difficulty filling those spaces up, not only because we are selling ourselves cheaply if we do, but because many folks might be approaching their AAVA limit by then anyway. The final alternative is to accept massive delays and a hit on the managements bonuses ... but we couldn't possibly have that happen could we ??
There could be trouble ahead ..... and a late opening of the full Prestwick Centre capability.