Hear through the grapevine QLink engineering manager bad mouthing his current staff to as many other operators as he can.
What - is he scared they might leave.
Why would they do that when he runs such a happy place.
If this happened to you would you not think twice about the reason for the outburst. If they are so bad wouldn't you be happy to get rid of them and not hinder their departure - make it somebody else's problem.
Maybe he is such a good person that he wants to keep all the bad engineers to himself so that nobody else has to put up with them - what a matyr.