Trouble? What trouble?
We own your lives. We will roster you how and when we wish, it is as simple as that. Didn't you realize you are at the beck and call of the Department when you signed on the dotted line. Read the small print.
Just because YOU must respect, follow and not engineer your roster for your own selfish personal reasons, so that you have a life outside work, does not mean that WE cannot. In fact we have our dedicated roster lady working every hour of the day to engineer the roster within an inch of its life. She will ensure you do not have a life and if there is any reason to suspect you are, you will be disciplined.
Problems with leave? Again, there's no problem! We will simply force you to sign a leave form then covert it to TOIL and Bob's your uncle- no more problem.
Your Union is toothless. What sort of a Union sends letters to us saying they want to work together with Management?! Unions are supposed to thump the table and make demands and threaten us with action if we don't fix things! Instead you want to help us continue to rule your lives! Fantastic!!!
Of course we know there is talk of sickies. Big deal. We have plenty of junior controllers who will come in on their day off because we will threaten them with their promotion if they do not. I must say, we laugh about how many of you are so stupid as to answer your phones on your days off when the number starts with 2910. Helloooo???
If you thought things were bad now, wait until conversion training for the new atcc starts. You may as well bring your wardrobe to work because you won't be going home very often. Oh, but when you do go home, we will be expecting you to take training material with you and study in your own time- what little of it you have left.
Anyway, all the grumbling will die down again soon with the announcement of the civil service pay rise. Of course most of you will end up with 4.5 of 5/8 of SFA after inflation but thats not our problem.
Have to go now, something about multiple resignations in my inbox. Must put a stop to that.
ATC Management