BEX wrote -
"The reason that so many operational people are just turning up, doing the job, and going home, is simple. They don't care anymore. They've had their say on all sorts of issues, AND BEEN IGNORED. So, they reason, what's the point? Management don't give a T*ss anyway, why should we?"
Spot on Bex. I believe we have all been shafted by incompetents who are never held responsible for their screw-ups. Micro managers on £70k+ who are too scared to do the job themselves, so they get off on spending hours poring over travel claims and getting menus faxed to them from restaurants so they can check up on people that are responsible for £100m's worth of aeroplanes. Believe it or not I hear that happened at one of the airports! The sooner liabilities like that are kicked out the better.
ATCOs deserve more respect from the management for the job they do.