Dear CXkate
As you have clearly decided to ignore the advise of people who know the true situation here in Hong Kong I have decided to attach my previous post onto this post in the hope that you might read it and actually listen to what we are trying to say.
If you don't understand what has happened here then when you join you will be in for a rude awakening!!!!!
IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM?
I do not often feel compelled to write on this forum but after reading some of recent posts regarding recruitment with Cathay I really feel the need to interject.
Some of the advise and opinions being offered about the “recruitment Ban” are coming from people who have no idea about the realities of joining Cathay at this delicate time.
I can fully understand that when you are on the outside looking in it is very difficult to really understand what is going on in our company.
You really want the job and hate the fact that a few guys in the union are causing trouble!!!
You don’t have to be in the union anyway, your happy with the package being offered!!!!
“It’s not YOUR problem” right?
WRONG, VERY WRONG!!!!!!!!!!
How many days after you start do you think that everything that happens in this place is going to start affecting YOUR life and you start to live and breath the awful situation WE have all been living for the last couple of years. VERY VERY soon it will also become YOUR problem.
Come on and join Cathay and see what it feels like when every time you scan your ID card over the entrance door of Cathay City you wonder if it is going to let you in, or every time you have a company letter headed envelope in your mailbox you wonder if its another demotion or sacking for no apparent reason.
These are just some of the realities for the guys and girls already in the company. Now you’re thinking of joining Cathay to replace the 49 people that got sacked. Sacked incidentally en mass by the management in order scare the **** out of the rest of us and make us all roll over and allow them to cut our conditions of service as and when it suites them.
So what are the realities for you?
Never being able to join a union again as long as you live (Big Deal!!!)
How about every time you turn up to dispatch you know that people are looking at you with disgust. Sure they will be professional, but how many of them are going to have a drink with you down route? It won’t take long before you start to feel very isolated indeed.
I am not a militant person, however I won’t be socialising with you and I can promise you, not many of us will.
Have you ever stopped to think WHY this ban is in place?
It is there to send a message to management that they cannot go on treating their employees the way they are. Why do you think the united nations are now investigating the human rights violations?
By joining now you are undermining everything we are trying to achieve and turning Cathay into a Contract Airline instead of a Career Airline.
What makes you think that if you join the company you are going to be immune from all of this?
Hong Kong is a hard place to live at the best of times and takes a great deal of getting used to without any of this other **** going on. I urge you to think very seriously before you decide to come here, instead of that “dream Job, it might just turn out to be your worst nightmare”.
Just as a final note, I couldnt really give a **** about the negative comments that come back regarding this post. I am just telling it like it is, if you chose not to believe me then fair enough. You make your own bed.