After the departure of
(deleted) to wreak havoc on the North Sea, I had great hopes of
(deleted), but he's either sold his soul to the 'devil' commerce at the expense of all else or the Machiavellis who have usurped the proud Bristow name and sacrificed it to commerce under the guise of 'safety', 'quality', 'integrity', 'fulfilment', 'teamwork', profitability'. The standard way of (ex)terminating employees now seems to be; decide to (ex)terminate employee, start looking for more pliant, bootlicking replacement, inform employee with half a day's notice that they have been terminated, 30 seconds later inform rest of the world that employee has decided to retire
.
Alan Bristow will be turning in his grave at what his company has been reduced to.
Now would be a good time for CHC and Caverton to pursue enquiries from Bristow pilots. Caverton got off to a very shaky start but has discovered that it will only get big contracts by put a proper, credible infrastructure in place. It still has a long way to go and is pretty low on integrity (and is still a 100% Nigerian company, with Nigerian shareholders and values), but it pays better than Bristow and is closing the gap in terms of a real safety management system and FOQA system.
Bristow is creating a pool of more and more ex high level Bristow managers who quickly get snapped up by competitors and then go all out to go for Bristow business with an intimate knowledge of how Bristow conducts its business. Fred's a great example of that and the new Bristow business model is causing declining loyalty and it will eventually lead to declining profits. Life in the Sandpit has never looked better when compared to life (with Bristow) in Nigeria.
Naming names and abusing them is not only against the T&C's, it is likely to end in tears. IB (who own this site) are based in the US of A and subject to the court orders that can have them hand over your registration details and anything else the court decrees. If we allow the abuse to remain online then we (the Mods) can get caught in the crossfire.
A depressing result of modern society, but one that cannot be taken lightly.
SP