I grant you that; the are many jobs in this company requiring a lot of training and specialist knowledge over and above what we, as crew, hold.
However, I'm talking about TEMPORARY staff. Temporary staff filling, essentially, gaps.
I have no doubt I could do a lot of the work in :
-Revenue Management
-Financial planning
-Employee development
-IT network maintenance
-Developing brand positioning
-Purchasing negotiating
oh yes, and Engineering??
I'm sure many of these departments endure more menial, tedious paperwork than we do, as crew. And if I'm told what to type into a database, I'll type it. How much training will I need?
I don't think I could walk in and be a Revenue Manager, a Financial Planner or an Employee Developer without significant training, but I bet I could do enough of the job to let those still working in those departments do twice the amount of actual planning/developing/managing that they might normally do.