Wakey wakey guys and gals of easyJet, smell the coffee. It’s a new day and from now on Webster can throw anything he likes at you because he knows that you are all too apathetic and frightened to do anything about it. Perhaps he may now even renege on the terms of your recent wonderful pay and conditions offer, using the “imminent war” card as a requirement to cut costs. What would you all do about that, other than whimper, chase your tails and snap at each others’ heels? And please don’t all say you’re going to the land of the golden harp when the next up-turn comes – he’ll just replace you with a further bunch of minimum qualified wimpy wannabees. Only way you’ll get improvements to your t&c’s is to fight for them.
So NoJoke and others of a similar persuasion, “there will NOT be a day. The management WILL NOT listen.” Can you give me one simple reason why they should? You have consigned yourselves to absolute irrelevance in the scheme of things.
Few Cloudy
Re your moronic dig of 23 Feb. You may be interested to know that Mr Schroeder's subjects (perhaps “fellow citizens” until he’s crowned King Gerhard) feature in a current Time Magazine article, page 34, dated 24 Feb:
“But the scarcely concealed American assumption that Europeans are wimps when it comes to military power does not stand up. Just because many European soldiers concentrate on peacekeeping doesn’t mean that they’re cowards. France lost 57 peacekeepers in the Balkan war and Britain 27. (So far 61 members of the US armed forces have died in the war on terrorism.) Germany contributes more soldiers to all peacekeeping missions than any country other than the US. The 7 German soldiers killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan two months ago are just as dead as the 8 Americans who died in Operation Anaconda last March.”
Maybe you’re trying to cover up your own inaction in a recent, far smaller conflict?
Oh and before you ask, yes I do support the premiss of Iraq being disarmed by force and again yes, I’m currently ex-pat but a former BALPA member (the only available show in town) who did vote for strike action (on that occasion the Association won against the Company).