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They just don't get it.. this moronic corporate gobbledygook double speak simply ads salt to the already severe wounds THEY have inflicted continuously for 25 years. Now they think this condescending corporate crap will make it better.. 
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My concern for the future survival of CX is rooted in the disconnect the management team seems to have with reality. They see numbers on a spreadsheet and little more, as if excel can tell the whole story. They are excruciatingly slow to recognize other factors and account for them.
CMP is a perfect example. CX is only interested in the productivity and efficiency enhancements that come from the program. What they fail to recognize, typically, is that crew preferences are a critical component. Pilots flying harder, more tightly compacted patterns will only “buy in” if they observe their seniority based preferences being honored. Otherwise, “sickness” rates stay sky high, but you can’t see that dynamic on a spreadsheet so it must not exist.
CMP is a perfect example. CX is only interested in the productivity and efficiency enhancements that come from the program. What they fail to recognize, typically, is that crew preferences are a critical component. Pilots flying harder, more tightly compacted patterns will only “buy in” if they observe their seniority based preferences being honored. Otherwise, “sickness” rates stay sky high, but you can’t see that dynamic on a spreadsheet so it must not exist.
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The sad thing is, they actually believe their own 
! Someone needs to buy them a bigger shovel, as they obviously can't wait to dig this hole deeper and deeper. It reminds me of the crap you used to read in "Pravda" during the old Soviet days. Obviously, NONE of our managers understand the term "Epic Fail".
! Someone needs to buy them a bigger shovel, as they obviously can't wait to dig this hole deeper and deeper. It reminds me of the crap you used to read in "Pravda" during the old Soviet days. Obviously, NONE of our managers understand the term "Epic Fail".
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To all of our managers who are spouting this garbage: Can you PLEASE, all of you, just shut the up. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
(out of curiosity, which 'pilots' are taking part in this 'focus group'? Bigger question: who amongst our ranks is idiotic enough to take part in this clown show?)
up. I don't know how much more of this I can take.(out of curiosity, which 'pilots' are taking part in this 'focus group'? Bigger question: who amongst our ranks is idiotic enough to take part in this clown show?)
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Sickness Rates
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They must know exactly the sickness rates as several months back they advertised for a "leadership position" for monitoring sickness rates in flight operations.. His/Her "spreadsheet" must be getting 1's n 0's all over the place. And of course as they now have a "leader" in place they must know everything. (pathetic)
They must know exactly the sickness rates as several months back they advertised for a "leadership position" for monitoring sickness rates in flight operations.. His/Her "spreadsheet" must be getting 1's n 0's all over the place. And of course as they now have a "leader" in place they must know everything. (pathetic)
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They just don't get it.. this moronic corporate gobbledygook double speak simply ads salt to the already severe wounds THEY have inflicted continuously for 25 years. Now they think this condescending corporate crap will make it better..
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Like all totalitarian and despotic regimes, if it has reached the stage of attempting to ban free speech then the walls will come crumbling down fairly soon thereafter.
Goodbye Swires.
Goodbye Swires.
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It doesn't much matter what you fly when you finally wake up and realise that all your efforts, time, life and health have been squandered in order to make the Swire family that little bit richer, at the expense of your own financial and physical health. Welcome to HK. Next stop, 'reality'.
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No, but more like using private account to sing praises and promote own company, give flying tutorials, showing cockpits and diff parts of the plane all while in uniform and during worktime. Just wondering if it's self motivation or green light by the company. Just wondering how legal is this?
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Social Media Policy 3
There are seminal moments in CX where management actions speak louder than they intend. Take their new Social Media Policy.
This is in response to the catastrophic public reputation that CX now has around the world. Most pilots don't even consider applying to CX due to the well established attacks on aircrew, intimidation and bullying (like this new policy!), and the completely inadequate package on offer. A package that forces pilots to live like college students in a very small dormitory.
Even if a pilot hears about CX, and they haven't really availed themselves of the facts at that point, they quickly get the facts from this forum and many others. The new company policy is due to the panic that is setting in as they find they can't attract pilots, and are losing and will continue to lose many of the ones they already have. Interestingly, this attempt to 'censor' the pilot body is a classic sign of a failing regime, be it business or political.
The genie is out of the bottle, and it is comical that CX feels they can shut down worldwide communications and dissemination of information. To CX management: you can no more contain the truth than you can stop the tides. As they used to say on the "X-Files" series on TV....the "Truth is Out There".
Oh, and btw, the only thing that needs censoring are the lies and threats that emanate from CX city.
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This is in response to the catastrophic public reputation that CX now has around the world. Most pilots don't even consider applying to CX due to the well established attacks on aircrew, intimidation and bullying (like this new policy!), and the completely inadequate package on offer. A package that forces pilots to live like college students in a very small dormitory.
Even if a pilot hears about CX, and they haven't really availed themselves of the facts at that point, they quickly get the facts from this forum and many others. The new company policy is due to the panic that is setting in as they find they can't attract pilots, and are losing and will continue to lose many of the ones they already have. Interestingly, this attempt to 'censor' the pilot body is a classic sign of a failing regime, be it business or political.
The genie is out of the bottle, and it is comical that CX feels they can shut down worldwide communications and dissemination of information. To CX management: you can no more contain the truth than you can stop the tides. As they used to say on the "X-Files" series on TV....the "Truth is Out There".
Oh, and btw, the only thing that needs censoring are the lies and threats that emanate from CX city.
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And to think that some were worried that Air China was going to take over and turn the whole thing into a mini version of the People's Party in Beijing but with airplanes...
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Yeah, pretty sad when that actually sounds better than the status quo (Swire). Also, I never thought I’d see the day when hoards of CX pilots are leaving for low pay LCCs in their home countries. It wasn’t that long ago that everyone wanted to be at CX.
Lesson: never underestimate the ability of bad management to effectuate rapid negative change. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but... Meanwhile, Nero fiddles.
Lesson: never underestimate the ability of bad management to effectuate rapid negative change. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but... Meanwhile, Nero fiddles.
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Just finished reading the AOA letters cautioning the pilots regarding their contributions to any 'social media'. The inference is that the company is so worried about the effect this is having on them that they are actually employing spy techniques to try and reveal the authors. Well, the Nazi party couldn't have been prouder of their modern day equivalent. It is obvious that CX's world wide reputation as en employer has been thoroughly trashed. It took them approximately 25 years to turn the most desirable airline job in the world into a hollow, decrepit joke (and not a very funny one at that). To our pathetic CX managers: I, and all of my close colleagues with whom I have spoken now see the soft underbelly of the beast, and you can be certain we will be attacking that daily. Your concern and panic regarding social media only highlights its effectiveness. You effectively ruined our profession in this part of the world and we don't take that lightly. My grandfather was injured in WW2 fighting the exact type of people whom you emulate. It would be a disgrace to cower under any attempt of subjugation and intimidation. I will spare you the 'fight on the beaches' speech, but you get the idea. I am appalled at the state of this airline, and even more appalled at the moral decrepitude and bullying displayed by her senior management. You can expect that not only will the social media 'problem' continue, but to intensify. There is no possible way you can control the truth, and it shall certainly shine it's light around the world to warn and educate the pilot community.
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