Originally Posted by
Air Profit
Wasn't it AT who said that if "we were mainly here for pay and benefits" we should probably look for employment elsewhere? What on earth other reason would be here for AT?, the clean air, large living space and pleasant locals?? I think I will be taking her advice, very soon.
I think ONE thing that kept people here was the sense of teamwork and camaraderie that had existed. One had a sense of justifiable pride in ones' airline and the people who made the product happen. We did it better and were the folks who made things happen. Striving for excellence.
With a potential side benefit of seeing parts of the world you might not otherwise get to see.
And enjoy coming to work and doing what you do.
Sadly much of that HAS been destroyed over the years--and to me has accelerated recently. Largely due to loss of confidence and trust; chiseling away at the pay and benefits being one particular breach of trust. As well as incoherent rostering making a relatively simple task unnecessarily difficult and fatiguing. So now you're stuck with something that's at best just a job. Hence the large amount of folks looking elsewhere. I think one strives for professional development and having a satisfying career. ONE aspect of this might be money, but there are so many more factors that are important. To me at least the job has lost much of what it might have had going for it.
When I hire someone to work on something I care about (whether that's car, house, or even me or a loved one) I want someone I can trust who cares about what they are doing. And I do whatever I can to hire the best and take good care of them. If I don't particularly care ABOUT product (and don't mind a sh!tty car that is unreliable) then maybe not as much. But most of us don't want this in things we care about.
So we take good care of the help. Knowing that WE have to live with what THEY do and the quality of it.
Not to mention it's the right thing to do. I want happy and grateful folks in what is my home. If I cheat them, chisel them, or am a cheap bastage (and hound and berate them, lie to them, or discount the job they've chosen as a career) my result is probably going to suck. And I'm the one stuck living with it (as well as with having a reputation of being a
pr!ck who people don't want to work for).
This isn't where I want to be or the person I want to be.
Perhaps others don't care.