Can someone explain what this comment from the ABC website about this problem means when it refers to mathematicians? I understand accountants and pen-pushers.
The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association has been involved in an 18-month long feud with Qantas against aircraft maintenance work being moved overseas.
Union secretary Stephen Purvinis says the airline is too focused on the bottom line.
"The quality of maintenance in Australia has been second to none and when you're starting to take some of your advice from your accountants, pen-pushers and mathematicians working for the airline, rather than the experts who delivered your reputation in the first place, that's when we have some concern," he said.
I'm a mathematician by trade so just wondering where we come in.
Thanks - Michael