It is very depressing reading this thread as it shows history repeating itself...
We, formerly of Brymon, once worked for a profitable, reasonably content and generally decent company.
Then came the MBAs, Harvard Business school graduates and beancounters and married us to BRAL...a company where employees were used to being treated like !!!!! by managers for whom there was no respect.
So was born CitiExpress.
And, surprise, surprise, whose culture prevailed and which mangers got the top jobs in the airline?
Answer BRAL's.
As a result.....you talk about low morale.....!!! Come and visit us sometime and we'll teach you a thing or two about low morale!
The industry seems to be in the grip of people who do not understand that a company can have both a happy well motivated workforce AND be profitable.
Just what business schools do all these idiots come from which says" Work your staff to the bone, intimidate and bully them into total subservience and as a result wonderful things will flow for you and your shareholders"?
Read any Autobiography of any industrial giant and you will learn that generally they were respected and liked by their workforce and thereby the best was brought out in them.
Clearly Barbara was within that league and the idiots who lost her will doubtless have plenty of time to regret it at their leisure......
And, yes, my application is still in with EJ and I will happily accept any job offered!!