The longer you are in Qantas the more you will realise the end does not have to justify the means. Couple of years too, they did a video crystal ball thingy with bright orange deco from an outside company to Perth base, yet nothing had improved after that. So they brought in Paris cross crewing and than morale perked up. Rather then bringing in some expensive 3rd party intervention, one just needs to change the structure a little to stimulate motivation. Corporate companies like fancy training, fancy word like teamwork, exceptional etc to justify the positions of the chiefs. So far all of LG's initiation has been dismal failures. Not one customer even noticed this "exceptional" that LG invented years ago and she is still building on it with this latest "excellence" exercise. But the board loves buzzwords like that.
I think no one can do without a job at Qantas, they still overall pay above market rates for doing what the market deemed as "unskilled" work. "Unskilled" work is where you can be up and running in just a few days, CASA is happy so long as the company is happy to train EP in a few days and the strike breakers have proven this can be done, and Auckland recruitment can select suitable people within one afternoon.
The ones that can do least without the job are the very senior ones, ironically they are the most secure ones in the company. Over the span of couple of decades, these seniors would have but saved up a nice large chunk and in fact many of the seniors who opted VR are very comfortable with their own savings, and defined super payouts and the redundancies payment, but then you have to ask the union why in the face of it all, they still want to enforce the clause that would leave the junior ones who need the money most to go first.
They say this is fairness, so is virtually writing your own roster.
Also being "so angry at the company" is taboo in this forum, members here will gang up and gouge you for that very expression, they will make sure you take the QCC lift to the top floor and take medication you don't need. Sad but there are a lot of Qantas members here who want to support management decision and when there is a voice of dissent, they smother you to a virtual death.
Last edited by heads_down; 24th May 2009 at 07:52.