Mr Joyce the people who work for you have families, mortgages and lives outside Qantas. Those people are now concerned for their capacity to provide for the people in their lives who really matter - and that's not you nor is it, at the moment, the shareholders.
All the discussion upline last night was about yesterday's announcement including a young pilot who was concerned about their ability to provide for their newborn child.
So your staff now have to wait at least two months to see whether the Sword of Damocles falls on them.
... and that is exactly how Oldmeadow and Kearns want you to feel.
I'm sure at the top of their whiteboard is the phrase "
Maintain fear and confusion", because if you can do that, you can get people to do anything...