Originally Posted by
Trevor the lover
It's not often that I'm right, but.............troll back a few years ago on these threads when JB first took over and started his dramatic restructure. He was lauded like the second coming of Jesus Christ. The threads prove it - he was the hero.
The more I read all the huge masses of praise the more I said "I'll call him the saviour when the Virgin group returns a profit. Let's wait and see how this goes before we make JB Sir JB."
Things on here seem a bit different now!
Trevor, spot on... unfortunately the industry in many cases now is headed not by people with leadership ability combined with operational background (which despite the rhetoric JB does not have, he never worked on check in in his life or at an airport regardless of what he says publicly)... and is instead dominated by people who speak are as slick as a bad lawyer and use all the current management jargon (Don Watson is an unsung national hero...) - some of the gems that I hear every day are "Going Forward", "What's happening in your SPACE", "Now that's the discussion AROUND the restructure, let's talk about the communication PIECE", "REACH OUT to your manager" and other such nonsense that feebly attempts to pass for English these days... it's all completely sanitised and meaningless twaddle... read anyone of their announcements and I defy anyone to determine what they actually are saying in amongst the jumble of reaching out and going forward crap. There is probably a reason why JB didn't get the QF gig and I think that's probably becoming obvious now... salesperson unfortunately who appears to simply not be able to run a profitable business... I read his book also and thought it was embarrassing. I was around in some of those times and I'm not convinced there isn't an element of salesperson rhetoric in their also, I thought particularly ordinary his comments about VH-OJH - not the words a leader would write about the competitor... I contrast that with the likes of Rod Eddington who ordered newspapers off AN aircraft the day after QF1 overran the runway at BKK because that's what a leader does, that's professional... casting aspersions over the repairs to the aircraft afterward is the act of a less than professional person in my view. I'm glad I didn't buy shares.