Agreed Captplaystation, all very true. Its a horrible set up in Ryanair. Divide and conquer tactics imposed by management promotes selfishness. Short term summer contracts to get home for a while,accepting floating positions 'for the money' which promote a lack of unity,going BRK to earn 15000 more per year while swindling the tax man in iom,gibralter,malta etc,accepting terrible terms because 'im near home'(until the base closes/downsizes),people trying any approach to get a base,plugging man power deficiencies and working off days 'for the money'(ryanair then spew the 'no crewing issues' mantra and don't have to improve the terms because they have 'enough pilots' and can continue the status quo)...on and on and on
Nobody in Ryanair has a common goal.Look at BA for example. Everyone on the same or similar terms as seniority rises. A common cohesive body. In ryanair you have 48 different full time contracts or 'negotiated base agreements'(ha ha), a brk floating contract,an old brk contract, a new brk contract with accountants, a new new brk contract just launched, temporary summer contracts (and then no guarantee to get back to your original base), temporary winter contracts etc etc.
And thats just the pilots. Its worse for engineers and cabin crew. Amazing tactics.Most people are too stupid to see it..not savvy enough for this management i'm afraid. Just the type of people ryanair love to exploit. The needy selfish kind with no understanding of the crucially important word - loyalty. We know modern day corporations have no loyalty towards their staff however to fight this the staff have to be loyal to each other,its inexplicable not to be in this aggressive environment in which we work.