I saw some pretty amazing stuff in HKATC. The majority of management including check controllers were third class politicians full of hot air. Sad lot who could remove the pleasure from having sex.
These are my comments:
• The smurfs in senior management are the biggest problem in HKATC. Poor at controlling and even worse at managing. Should not be allowed to ever set foot in a tower or control center.
• These so-called senior managers love gossiping about the controllers (!)
• Staff morale is extremely low. Most young controllers only get a fraction of their leave and fatigue is obvious.
• Senior managements usually spend their “leisure time” watching the radar in their homes. (What else is there to do on a Saturday evening?) Speaks volumes of their trust in staff and procedures - or lack thereof.
• Whenever they begin a sentence with the word “because” you know they are trying to pin the blame on somebody. Nothing is ever their fault!
• These managers love to point their fingers at ATCOs. If you are accused you have the right to argue your case but no matter how valid your points may be they simply don’t listen. You are up against the jury and the judge and cannot win.
• Like triads they use a system of bullying and intimidation to control the workers.
• If senior management did not turn up for work one day the two main differences would be that the controllers would actually be happy doing the job and the place would run smoothly.
• Don’t have too high hopes of improvements. Smurfs clone themselves and the chief smurfs’ successors will be cherry-picked!
• Recently there has been political talk of a third runway………Not required for at least 50 years! Simply train controllers to work like they do at any major airport in the world and the pink dolphins can keep their habitat!