Chatted to someone coming to the end of his cash for random roster pattern - he won't be doing it again, not worth doing, too knackered - looked it too. The fixed pattern is knackering enough for flips sake, a couple of years of random...unsustainable long term me thinks
Well hopefully they'll be many more like him thinking and feeling the same!!!
The big problem is that every year there will always be new gullible idiots who will throw caution to the wind and give it a try. Throw in a command or a prospect of his/her very first 'McJob' in aviation, and a flexible roster take-it-or-leave-it deal will appear sweet enough for some...
After this summer, the thin end of the wedge is inserted and another one of Pandora's boxes has opened. Wouldn't it have been better to let things come to a grinding halt? Perhaps only then, any company (especially "career" airlines!
) will be 'motivated' enough to make sure that it won't happen again in the long run? Instead, the jello-spined workforce fell for the Doomsday scenario that the world was going to end, economically speaking that is. Subsequently, many sold their soul to the Devil for a few extra quid and pushed the fatigue envelop even further...in the wrong direction!
Two sayings spring to mind;
1) "Don't let a good crisis go to waste." (management)
2) "There's a sucker born every minute" (employees)
