Amenity Kits!!!!
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Better yet, charge ID passengers for the kits! Come to think of it, why not charge us for the peanuts and OJ, too? This can easily be done discreetly to protect the company's 'image', just get us to sign a payroll deduction form at the check-in counter! This will give the accountants and managers the wet dream they are always hoping for AND the public won't have to find out that this company doesn't actually give a rat's ar$e about its employees!
Come (
) the next vote for best employer in hong kong, the public who don't know any better would still pick cx and management would go home to explain to their children that their daddies earned their fat bonus by being decent people - everyone's happy! But what about the employees some might ask, refer to the bit above regarding rodine posterior.
Come (
) the next vote for best employer in hong kong, the public who don't know any better would still pick cx and management would go home to explain to their children that their daddies earned their fat bonus by being decent people - everyone's happy! But what about the employees some might ask, refer to the bit above regarding rodine posterior.
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Can You Read Junior Man?
Might be nice if they offered us the OPTION to help out by refusing ammenities kits.
So that there will be no distinction between ID passengers and full-fare customers, our cabin crew will continue to offer the amenity items to each passenger seated in First or Business Class. However, from 1 August - and until further notice - we ask that our staff, retirees and their nominees, whether on duty or leisure travel - politely decline the offer of the kits and pyjamas as appropriate.
So now that you know you do in fact have the option, will you have the b@lls to decline? Or do you think that the word 'ask' means 'you will not'?
And as for you 777300ER and your
It has also recently become standard practice to not load Business / First class meals for staff even if they are listed well in advance for the flight. On my last few flights in Business, I have been told rather harshly that I'll be having an economy meal.
It must be you coz I have never been spoken to so harshly, or not given the proper meal and asking around neither have any of my mates.
Still, I mustn't whinge about all you whingers or else you will think i am a mate of the Management and I most certainly am not but can't most of you get a life and stop your constant moaning?
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Dear Amused Reader, you've got it all wrong. Myself and my contemporarys who joined Cathay in the sixties on Electras and CV880s and had no compunctions of being called out for duty during a midnight tryst, to operate a flight in the early hours of the morning, which was supposed to be your day of rest on the roster; if you could call it that in those days. We didn't whinge or whine. We were rewarded with an invitation to the Swire penthouse for cocktails , lunch or dinner where the chairman would shake your hand and enquire about the health of your family, correctly naming all your offspring and wife. Our life was Cathay and we shared happiness and grief, like the destruction of VR-HFZ, blown out of the sky by a bomb in the cabin over Pleiku on June 15, 1972 with the loss of 81 lives, ten crew and 71 passengers. Our efforts in those days have shaped Cathay to what it is today, so don't tell me we are whingeing and whining Amused Reader, for the loss of little comforts that cost the company zilch.
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I have twice recently been 'skipped' on the meal service only to eventually be offered an economy meal while traveliing ID/C.
Needless to say, both times I pocketed the amenity kit. I now purposely use one as my work 'toothbrush bag' to remind me of the love I feel from CX.
MAX
Needless to say, both times I pocketed the amenity kit. I now purposely use one as my work 'toothbrush bag' to remind me of the love I feel from CX.
MAX
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Chill
Will you please work on a day off? No Thank you very much
Will you please exercise Cdrs Discretion?? No thank you very much
Will you please carry less fuel?? No thank you very much
Would you like an amenity kit and PJ's? No thank you very much
Don't get mad, get even, and enjoy life!
Health and family first!
Will you please exercise Cdrs Discretion?? No thank you very much
Will you please carry less fuel?? No thank you very much
Would you like an amenity kit and PJ's? No thank you very much
Don't get mad, get even, and enjoy life!
Health and family first!
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You're kidding right
I found out that those kits are free for CX provided by the vendor for sales of their products. This came from someone in the department that handles them!!! I think it is a ruse to make it seem either like we are saving money as I originally said, too just punish us needlessly. Always something to just keep us at bay.
Saturn
While I agree with you regarding the saving money bs from the company, Dermalogica were paid for the contents of the amenities kits. Dermalogica has never been sold on CX aircraft as it is only available from selected spas.
While I agree with you regarding the saving money bs from the company, Dermalogica were paid for the contents of the amenities kits. Dermalogica has never been sold on CX aircraft as it is only available from selected spas.
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So first it's the amenities kits, what's next ?
Could this be our future as well ?
US Airways pilots: We're pressured to cut fuel - Yahoo! News
Could this be our future as well ?
US Airways pilots: We're pressured to cut fuel - Yahoo! News
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Uniform Hat
In doing my bit for the company, I no longer take my hat to work, and in doing so, save the fuel it costs to carry it!
Anyone care to do the maths on that?
Anyone care to do the maths on that?
Sadly this is not about amenity kits but about silo-driven penny-pinching point-making...in the best Geoff Dixon tradition. The unforeseen consquences are the further erosion of morale (if that's possible) and ultimately brand destruction. Staff and retirees can be a great source of sales power for the company and yet management fails to appreciate this.
Big picture thinking is sadly lacking....although I do like the idea of no-hats
Try turning the CX/KA pax fleets into silver bullets. They would look better and burn USD10-12m less gas a year.
That's a lot of amenity kits.
Big picture thinking is sadly lacking....although I do like the idea of no-hats
Try turning the CX/KA pax fleets into silver bullets. They would look better and burn USD10-12m less gas a year.
That's a lot of amenity kits.
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HFX, unfortunately the whole silver bullet thing hasnt been working out. Apparantly now costing money as they have to keep cleaning more often and they get very dirty very quickly!!!!
Interesting to see in that bastion of great journalism news, the SCMP, China Southern have cut management pays by 10% to counter the problems they are facing with the fuel costs!!! Good one!!
Interesting to see in that bastion of great journalism news, the SCMP, China Southern have cut management pays by 10% to counter the problems they are facing with the fuel costs!!! Good one!!
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For a Fenwiscksgirl I would say cleanliness must be next to Godliness.
Whoever/whomever/whatever thought of painting KA a/c white should have his swag burned. Neither the KA nor CX livery is suited for the cr?p they have to live in.
Whoever/whomever/whatever thought of painting KA a/c white should have his swag burned. Neither the KA nor CX livery is suited for the cr?p they have to live in.
