ProM
compare with criticism of the Baron for receiving a bonus and driving an Aston. Is he not just earning as much as poss?
I think you will find that the reason there is criticism is because whilst the top dog gets all the juicy treats, his workforce hardly get any scraps.
I'm all for management awarding themselves bonuses, so long as they don't try to tell the workforce that the company cannot afford to give us pay rises!
Say what you want about Mr B - he is very good at his job. Unfortunately his mandate comes from his labour cronies who sold NATS and put us in debt in the first place. He is doing everything they wanted him to do.
The problem most people have is nothing to do with his performance - he excels at cutting costs at lower levels and scaremongering - but everything to do with the fact that his mandate does not sit particularly well with the idea of being the best ATC provider... a slogan that no longer appears on NATS literature.