I also think that what goes to the core of the problem is the complete lack of appreciation from a co.optics perspective of the good job that we do.
We are one of the hardest working long haul pilots in the market...month in month out 90-92.
The tone at wash ups, in co. emails etc always seems to focus on the issues of what went wrong last week and how we need to improve our game...cue lost Comms.
They need some salesmen in there to focus on the 95% that do good ???
It really is low hanging fruit for a new manager wannabee because of the cost of that....zero.
But perhaps it's by design ... ie that would be seen as some sort of empowerment.
The tone issue is a real head scratcher as it's 101 in mgt school.
Ah well...what would we know...not allowed even open an aircraft door ...now there's some empowerment for the skipper .
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