Originally Posted by
ANTIPHOLUS
Kahooha. Lowering the tone, admittedly from a very low base in the first place. Looks aside, the current DFO is probably the smartest adversary we've had on the opposite side of the desk in a long time.
Not so sure about smartest, I would say Rhodent is every bit as bright, but Anna is certainly more sly. She uses her female nurture to give big hugs while stabbing you right through the kidney with her dagger. The lies are still there, just more craftily veiled. CX realized that the pilots had finally figured out the previous, sledgehammer, intimidation-tactic type of DFOs.
She is a hard-nosed, sharp-pencilled bean counter just like the others. Don't let the absence of male genitalia fool you into thinking she is in any way different than what we have seen in the past. She is taking orders from the same people her predecessors did. Her remit is the same, to cut costs to remedy this management manufactured crisis caused by horrific fuel gambles. In the past, it was SARS, 9/11, GFC, etc.
CX never lets a good crisis go to waste. Make no mistake, we all are being asked to pay for decades of CX HR mismanagement and billions in fuel hedging bets gone bad. Subtract out those losses and CX is still very profitable despite the mismanagement. There is a way to manage better without slashing and burning the CoS. The CMP is a start, but I can guarantee even that will be bastardized and abused to the point of lose-lose, even though win-win is entirely possible.
Our response should be to stand up to the bully. Even though she doesn't look, talk, or act like one; that's all she is. Make no mistake, there is nothing different this time around except that the "crisis" is self inflicted.