That attitude seems to me similar to finding yourself as a crew member on a cross channel ferry that has just collided with another ship because the captain was asleep in his cabin and is now taking on water. Do you then decide to let the ship sink to show the captain how bad he really is or do you help to man the pumps to save the ship? Common sense to me says that it would be in your interest to save the ship and wait till later to sort out the captain. Apparently not! Let's all sit back and watch a catastrophe unfold so that Cor and his mates get fired. I am a simple soul when it comes to this sort of thing. I actually want to see easyJet customers getting on the flights they booked and not have them go elsewhere.
Norman, I always appreciate your well thought out posts. But I think this does not do justice to what's happening in our company. We are not on a sinking ship. We have many many options.
I'll use part of you nautical analogy if I may. We are on one of those Roman warships, you know, the kind with peddles at the side for rowing when there's no wind. The officers in their infinite quest for eliminating cost have sacrificed a pig before setting sail to fight a war, believing the windgods will favour them with tailwinds all the way to battle. Hence they leave with 'optimised' levels of rowing crew..
However, the promised tailwinds do no materialise and now the ship is so slow and underpowered that they risk missing the war completely, and no war means no plundering. So the officers are now handing out bags of silver coins to volunteers who want to row non-stop for a week. The crew also realise that they might miss all the good plundering if the don't get on with it, but wonder if it is worth the extra silver coins if they work themselves to death. They call the officers and tell them that they are all willing to be flexible to a certain extent for a certain price. This might cost a bit more, but surely this is better than bribing a few greedy crew to overwork themselves? And who will need to take over when the greedy ones burn out? Exactly.