PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - The current mood at AirServices Australia
Old 13th Feb 2014, 03:10
  #5 (permalink)  
Nautilus Blue
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Running up that hill
Posts: 308
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
This is entirely personal, subjective, biased and only applies to 'my' bit of ASA, but basically a lot better.

Ms Staib had some pretty small (and detested) shoes to fill, and got a lot of brownie points just for not being TFN. Mr Hood (new EGM ATC) was a known and respected quantity previously.

The new regime seems to have abandoned the policy of attacking staff and blaming them for any issues(apart from one early interview), which I think has helped a lot. Previously the most rage inducing thing wasn't the problems, but the constant stream of "I'm a genius, the are no problems, and if there are its not my fault, it will all be fixed by Christmas, by the way did you know I'm a genius" in the media. It was almost as if senior management didn't think we saw their interviews and presentations to industry. In some ways they have improved morale but just stopping talking.

The last CA (pre Staib but post TFN) was an anticlimax where I was expecting a bloodbath.

It seems to have gone quiet on the SDE and Endorsement Reform front, both of which are unpopular. ASA never announces policies being dumped, preferring to let then quietly wither, so there is hope on that front.

There are still staffing problems, but the college, sorry Academy (also recently subjected to regime change) is pumping out trainees as fast as possible, so there is light at the end of that tunnel (how far away it is is open to debate).

In summary I think some things are better, and the things that aren't are easier to deal with when your not being blamed for them. (When your CEO goes on national TV and talks about an organised secret cabal in the workforce dedicated to undermining his brilliance you start to wonder about a lot of things.)

Edited to add : as someone on the very bottom of the organisational chart, the Truss report really doesn't look like it will mean anything to me.
Nautilus Blue is offline