The Axe Begins to Fall at Qantas
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Why Self Destruct?B.P..an explanation
Dixon has had three intentions during his tenure...break the unions,destroy the culture and drive down costs.
The consequences of this agenda are being seen now....Self destruction.
An unforeseen reality of an absolutely incompetent mangement team driven by a domestic airline mindset.
Dixon discovered the golden goose that has lead to an obscene creation of executive wealth to the detriment of Qantas corporate health.
Does anyone in their right mind think that 36000 employees are wrong and one geriatric is right?
Tell 'em they're dreamin'.
The consequences of this agenda are being seen now....Self destruction.
An unforeseen reality of an absolutely incompetent mangement team driven by a domestic airline mindset.
Dixon discovered the golden goose that has lead to an obscene creation of executive wealth to the detriment of Qantas corporate health.
Does anyone in their right mind think that 36000 employees are wrong and one geriatric is right?
Tell 'em they're dreamin'.
Last edited by packrat; 16th Aug 2008 at 23:29.
BP, the reasons employers don't get loyalty any more is that they don't give loyalty. It's a two way street. I once worked for a manager (in the public service ferchrissake) who commanded the absolute loyalty of all of us. We would have walked across broken glass for him - and he was also an extremely tough boss with very high standards who demanded the same from us.
The most important thing he did was ensure we were all recognised for are contributions, plus his social skills and sense of play made coming to work a pleasure, you never knew what would happen next.
The most important thing he did was ensure we were all recognised for are contributions, plus his social skills and sense of play made coming to work a pleasure, you never knew what would happen next.
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Four of the visitors no longer have tenure at Qantas.Interestingly these four were the ones,the only ones who applied for positions in the LHR base.
I have not hear one person shown the door yet, have you?
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The Four Mouseketeers
One of these people was my manager.
Escorted from the building in tears after a meeting with AW
Must send a message to the other visitors.
You ain't here for a long time
Escorted from the building in tears after a meeting with AW
Must send a message to the other visitors.
You ain't here for a long time
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If you go into the history of the company you will find that QF does a "purge" every four years or so. Like lemmings they fire all the good and reliable staffies, and keep the dobbers, the lazy, and the well connected. Nobody has ever been able to work it out, and I can well remember back in the eighties, they hired a company, called by staff "munch and crunch" who fired just about anybody who had achieved anything. I often wonder if it is instigated by a poor quality middle management, who stuck half way up the ladder, make sure nobody with any brains or knowhow comes after them. It is a mystery, that the QF1 (and the rest) takes off every day, QF really does fly in spite of itself. I can only put it down to the loyality of the good survivers, who know that the QF management motto is " you do the right thing by us and we will stick the bat up your a#se everytime" just keep on keeping on. This is just history repeating its self.
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you have been very quiet speedy 
i hear that the visitors are feeling greatly relieved that the angel of death has passed them by.
I noticed sheeps blood at their work stations this morning. Had a very hebrew feel to the place.
Perhaps it wass the blood of sacrificed visitors ?
i hear that the visitors are feeling greatly relieved that the angel of death has passed them by.
I noticed sheeps blood at their work stations this morning. Had a very hebrew feel to the place.
Perhaps it wass the blood of sacrificed visitors ?
Teresa Green:
Actually "Crunch, Munch and Punch" - Cresap, McCormick and Paget. Such dear fellows, that brings back memories.
Every four years or so a new set of management buzzwords are released in the form of a book from Harvard Business School and management consultants around the world dutifully transcribe them into management babble and then begin selling their services to the easily gulled as a way of improving their business. I know. I've done it.
I'm not up on the latest buzzwords, the last I heard was "emotional intelligence". Then there is the whole "empowerment" thing. Then there are huge and complex computer systems sold as "decision support systems" allowing senior management to "drill down" through layers of complex data - a micromanagement facilitation tool.
Then we have "knowledge management" - systems designed to allow companies to suck the knowledge out of their employees brains so they retain it after they sack them. "Core competencies", "Business process re-engineering", "Lean sigma" and on it goes.
The list is endless, only limited by the fertility of academic minds at Harvard.
Then of course we have had three waves of centralisation/decentralisation.
Centralisation was the thing in the 60's - economies of scale and all that, plus the need to use the new IBM computer for something useful.
In the 70's and 80's it was all about decentralisation into strategic business units, devolving decisionmaking downwards, demerging, getting rid of "non-core" activities.
..And of course in the 90's, it's all about centralisation again, driven by the possibilities of the internet and wet dreams of the CEO being able to detect the lowliest employee skiving off for a few minutes.
It's a wonder that you all aren't being required to be microchipped...
Nobody has ever been able to work it out, and I can well remember back in the eighties, they hired a company, called by staff "munch and crunch" who fired just about anybody who had achieved anything.
Every four years or so a new set of management buzzwords are released in the form of a book from Harvard Business School and management consultants around the world dutifully transcribe them into management babble and then begin selling their services to the easily gulled as a way of improving their business. I know. I've done it.
I'm not up on the latest buzzwords, the last I heard was "emotional intelligence". Then there is the whole "empowerment" thing. Then there are huge and complex computer systems sold as "decision support systems" allowing senior management to "drill down" through layers of complex data - a micromanagement facilitation tool.
Then we have "knowledge management" - systems designed to allow companies to suck the knowledge out of their employees brains so they retain it after they sack them. "Core competencies", "Business process re-engineering", "Lean sigma" and on it goes.
The list is endless, only limited by the fertility of academic minds at Harvard.
Then of course we have had three waves of centralisation/decentralisation.
Centralisation was the thing in the 60's - economies of scale and all that, plus the need to use the new IBM computer for something useful.
In the 70's and 80's it was all about decentralisation into strategic business units, devolving decisionmaking downwards, demerging, getting rid of "non-core" activities.
..And of course in the 90's, it's all about centralisation again, driven by the possibilities of the internet and wet dreams of the CEO being able to detect the lowliest employee skiving off for a few minutes.
It's a wonder that you all aren't being required to be microchipped...
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It's a wonder that you all aren't being required to be microchipped...
Well how else do you ensure staff are not spending too much time in the toilets?....
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Blimey Sunfish, thats all to much for us simple pilots, whose only job was to steer the thing from A to B. and hopefully back again. All this emotional claptrap and stuff out of Harvard, does'nt it really all boil down to personal dislike for some hapless employees, and whose up who and who has'nt paid? All disguised in double talk. I came from a simple world, i'm glad when I was check and training I did'nt have to deal with that stuff, looking at some blokes "emotional needs" you could either fly the bloody thing or you couldn't, black or white, bring it back.
