NATS Destinations - YOU DECIDE
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From: Costa del Hampshire
NATS Destinations - YOU DECIDE
Hi all, but specifically NATS controllers... 
Pop on to the Nats Net site, check out the new "21 destinations" micro site and use your perogative (sp?) to let them know whether you think they are useful, not bothered or, and I don't want to sway your vote here, IRRITATING....
Merry Christmas to all, whatever your destination, religion, sexuality or politics. Let it be a peaceful one, and may Santa bring you a big sack of pressies
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(Come on guys, we're up to 27% now....)
Pop on to the Nats Net site, check out the new "21 destinations" micro site and use your perogative (sp?) to let them know whether you think they are useful, not bothered or, and I don't want to sway your vote here, IRRITATING....
Merry Christmas to all, whatever your destination, religion, sexuality or politics. Let it be a peaceful one, and may Santa bring you a big sack of pressies
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(Come on guys, we're up to 27% now....)
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From: Costa del Hampshire
Niteflight, If they don't like the answer, don't ask the question...
And what is all this "you're either with them..." bos? The company are not some tyrannical regime run by a despotic crackpot out to make as much money as possible before the people cotton on to them, are they? 
And what is all this "you're either with them..." bo
s? The company are not some tyrannical regime run by a despotic crackpot out to make as much money as possible before the people cotton on to them, are they?
LHR atc vote has been cast! I really want to know who are the people that are intrigued by them....surely the Red Barron cant cast that many votes???
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niknak
The NATS private forum doesn't have much on it. and is not well read.........all relevant stuff apart from "house-keeping" is on main page.
The "natsnet" might be the internal NATS office type system that staff use within NATS. It is supposed to be accessible by all staff, but I know several of us just can't get to grips with it........every time some-one shows me how it works the system seems to change my log-in .....so I give up. Last time I got "in" there were 1857 unread messages, nearly all were utter garbage.
It is used very much like our staff paper as a management propaganda tool.......so you're missing nothing.
The "destinations" refers to some newthink strategy by a growing team of ex-railway management hirelings who are anxious to impress people....this has backfired bigtime.....they appear by evidence of their actions to be shallow, superficial and [most relevant] short term.
As long as NATS holds a monopoly in Area service provision there will never be a "real" need to change the status quo....talk is cheap.
The "natsnet" might be the internal NATS office type system that staff use within NATS. It is supposed to be accessible by all staff, but I know several of us just can't get to grips with it........every time some-one shows me how it works the system seems to change my log-in .....so I give up. Last time I got "in" there were 1857 unread messages, nearly all were utter garbage.
It is used very much like our staff paper as a management propaganda tool.......so you're missing nothing.
The "destinations" refers to some newthink strategy by a growing team of ex-railway management hirelings who are anxious to impress people....this has backfired bigtime.....they appear by evidence of their actions to be shallow, superficial and [most relevant] short term.
As long as NATS holds a monopoly in Area service provision there will never be a "real" need to change the status quo....talk is cheap.
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I actually sent an email (ironically enough!) to Corporate Comms the other day explaining that most operational staff (certainly at Heathrow) don't have time to log on to a computer to check their email account or read the intranet. In fact many don't even realise they have an email account.
That method might be fine for communicating with office staff who work at a computer desk, but the only way to be sure that ATCOs, ATSAs and ATCEs read any information is to leave a hard copy in the pigeonhole.
That method might be fine for communicating with office staff who work at a computer desk, but the only way to be sure that ATCOs, ATSAs and ATCEs read any information is to leave a hard copy in the pigeonhole.
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From: Costa del Hampshire
Niknak, I appreciate that there are more than NATS controllers on here, I was just trying to reach everyone on every possible board...
Keep up the good work, though, NATS people. We were up to 39% this morning. Still, I am sure the balance will be redressed when all of the office wallahs return from the Christmas/New Year break that they all seem to be on.
Keep up the good work, though, NATS people. We were up to 39% this morning. Still, I am sure the balance will be redressed when all of the office wallahs return from the Christmas/New Year break that they all seem to be on.
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Flowman, a brief history....
Our new Chief Exec has 'imagined' where the company will be in April 2007, and come up with 21 targets, sorry, 'destinations' that we should be achieving by then. Although he admits he doesn't know how we can do it yet.
Anyway, these destinations have been promoted in a number of silly ways, giving everyone a template for a paper aeroplane with them on the back, handing out pseudo boarding cards inviting you this 'journey' we're on going towards our 'destinations'.
There's a page on our company internal intranet where we can vote on how we feel about the destinations, from excited to irritated.
Irritated is the one we're talking about here.
Our new Chief Exec has 'imagined' where the company will be in April 2007, and come up with 21 targets, sorry, 'destinations' that we should be achieving by then. Although he admits he doesn't know how we can do it yet.
Anyway, these destinations have been promoted in a number of silly ways, giving everyone a template for a paper aeroplane with them on the back, handing out pseudo boarding cards inviting you this 'journey' we're on going towards our 'destinations'.
There's a page on our company internal intranet where we can vote on how we feel about the destinations, from excited to irritated.
Irritated is the one we're talking about here.
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Vlad/Over + Out : The date for announcing the window for the possible date of the move of TC to Swanwick has been put back to February. Window is supposed to be Jan 1st to March 27th 2007.
The date for announcing the date has been put back to May/June... Expected date was 9th Jan 2007.
However, apparently the boffins have said that there is no way we can make any of those dates, which makes the Red Barons statement of "March 27th 2007 OR ELSE" sound like an AC to Swanwick 1996 farce all over again...
So the Red Baron has given them some more time to think about it!!!
The date for announcing the date has been put back to May/June... Expected date was 9th Jan 2007.
However, apparently the boffins have said that there is no way we can make any of those dates, which makes the Red Barons statement of "March 27th 2007 OR ELSE" sound like an AC to Swanwick 1996 farce all over again...
So the Red Baron has given them some more time to think about it!!!