HeavyWrench, you obviously haven't figured out how things work here at Cathay Pacific. It is one of the genius aspects of the airline that behind the seeming chaos and incompetence around you, it is actually a finely tuned machine...reminds me of an expensive swiss watch! Once you have been here many years, you start to appreciate that the ability to make a complete mess of every area of a pilots career is actually the way managers grade themselves. In their morning meetings, they compare the latest disasters in their departments, and then give each other hardy congratulations based on the most misery caused. It is a very satisfying way to go through a management career, knowing that you have created the most ubelievably inept system possible. Very edifying, and something to which we should all aspire. Remember, it's not the chaos caused that's important, it's the misery that results from it that is the true measure of managements greatness.
