Management now prefer to believe that all problems are caused by over paid under worked expats and all problems will be fixed once they are all gone.
There is one expat top level manager who has found a niche for himself in corporate world (formerly in Qld. Water or similar place and is now in PX) based on attacking "high" salaries, the one and only trick in his bag.
Name that preek, and let's see what he is made of.
Some of the problems appear to have stemmed from the gradual accumulation of second rate (or lower) expats who have insidiously crept in over the years. Most have proven to be a poor substitute for the real people who they have supposedly replaced, and they have little or no interest in anything other than feathering their own nest. Some have caused employee unrest and dissention to the point where many qualified Nationals have moved on. They had considerable experience having been mentored under the old guard of previous decades, and in reality were those that the Company could ill afford to lose. (Case in point being the LAMEs who are now in WA and elsewhere through unfair treatment).
There certainly does not appear to be the degree of mentoring that took place in yesteryears. Maybe they have little or nothing to offer and are just seat polishers, who are occupying titled positions but they are semi incapable of delivering what is required.
It is a crying shame to see how the Company has slowly deteriorated from the excellent Company that it once was, such self inflicted decline being almost entirely due to the poor standard of blinkered management in most areas, where they can't see the wood for the trees.
A culture and a mentality of "it is always someone else's fault" has never done any good for any business, and it won't work here either.
Blue skies up chaps, and keep the faith. Regards to ya all, Big E.