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Just thought this was so appropriate to post, considering our present predicament.

NEXT is a clothing retailer in the UK.

NEXT boss Lord Wolfson is handing over his £4million annual bonus to the clothing retailer's 20,000 staff.
In a letter to staff the chief executive said those who had worked for the firm since April 2011 will receive a bonus of around 1.5 per cent of their salary as part of their May pay packet.
This means a shopfloor worker earning £20,000 a year will collect around £200.
It is the second year in a row that Wolfson has waived his bonus and shared it with staff.
In addition he announced that sales staff and stock room assistants, the lowest paid members of its workforce, will see a 37p an hour increase in their pay rate from June 1.
Wolfson said his bonus, linked to the group's share price which has trebled in value to just shy of 6500p in just three years, had become "more valuable than I could possibly have hoped".
He added: "I hope you will accept this bonus as a gesture of appreciation for all your hard work and dedication to Next.
"Thanks to you Next has emerged in better shape than before the credit crunch."
His annual pay will be revealed in its annual report tomorrow.
Last year he received £4.6million.


Next boss Lord Wolfson shares his £4million bonus with 20,000 of his retail staff | City & Business | Finance | Daily Express

I applaud what the man has chosen to do with his bonus. It's nice to show lefties the difference between honorable sharing, and forced redistribution. :ok:

Our leadership conducted a survey (last year within CC) and the results were quite startling. There are more Airbus pilots willing to work a G day that not, and where the Airbus leads the Boeing is sure to follow.

The base with the most reluctance is OZ, followed by EUR then NAM. Within HKG the results are ethnic are not disclosed.

The result is that the negotiations are a lot tougher, there still being miles apart between the two teams. So I guess we'll get what we deserve.

Curtain..I beg to differ but I always offer up the rest to the "team" and whoever is PF gets first dibs at both rest and menus FTM. You must either fly with some complete arseholes or possibly give that impression out of yourself..hence the negativity towards those in so called Command....and yes, leadership and command are totally different in today's climate of management???there's not one of them up there that I imagine any of us would fix bayonets and go over the top for...come back black Adder!!! Btw...(OM)?

Curtain - I ALWAYS let the guys know what the rest arrangements are.

Me - 100%

The number who bother opening an email (comail) prior to a flight - MAYBE 50%

Troops - ~50%

If my experience is par for the course, I'm not surprised that some captains have given up. It's very disappointing arriving at dispatch and asking if they received the groupwise and being met by blank stares.

What goes around...

I too inform the crew of rest details and always give others first choice of meals. I'm not big on food so which meal means nothing to me!

cp dude:
 

I love my food, but you are absolutely right: given the choices we are most often presented with, which meal means nothing to me too!

Cr u come off as some bitter twisted person.

I dont bother anymore sending emails....i was one of the captains who received enough blank stares that I wouldn't waste my precious time sitting down going thru my crap roster to update crew. As some one said earlier plan getting the crap rest, get over your pathetic whine and turn up and be surprised when the captain gives who ever gets the sector his choice on rest and meal etc. its not rocket science.

If the captain isnt one of those and is a an asshole then thank your star you get relief and don't have to sit with him.

Do you not think that some how you don't deserve these choices now as a Captain? I have done my penance of servitude as a so and fo and endured the long shirt brigade. If you dont think you will become an uncaring captain, well good for you.....but considering the current calibre of up and coming behind you I bet you should brace your self for a rough time as a Captain leading this bunch.

Email ref rest plan sent every flight without exception and well received by crew that read it which is approx 70%
CR, you are a known "special case".

The cost of the jet and the number of passengers is irrelevant, if you like to think that as it makes you feel more important then continue to believe it. I am not disagreeing that the CN should be on the ball but if you honestly use this argument how does the fleet office respond when you refuse to do two crew through the night multi sector trips every month?

Who (or what) is OM? I agree with Firewall - my rest plan is always sent and always well received. Sometimes you can't please everybody (ie the RL) but I occasionally do RL and just do as I'm told (in the email the Capt sends).
Two people MUST be well rested for the last hour - the Capt and the operating FO. That's it.:ok:

Well said Dan

Let's hope they never let someone with such little understanding of the responsibility of commanding/being legally responsible, for an aircraft, ever sign for a jet.

But the new policy is dumb down the industry, and pay less. They will get away with for a while.

CR stop talking. You're embarrassing yourself.

For what its worth, I personally have found the e-mail rate to be about 50%. HOWEVER, where the skipper plans to take rest other that what would be obvious, i.e. a HK based, but EURO commuting type, the e-mail rate jumps to ~85-90%. And I too don't think e-mails equate to leadership. ALthough its nice... What really ****s me is someone walking up to dispatch and assigning the rest w/o questioning the crew...

Anyway, all good info on how NOT to do it...

... and I am generalizing here, but there are two types that do that. The long sleeve types, and the ex. S/O's who "did their time", and now feel its payback. As we know, both are in a minority, and when it happens, you just get through the night. The job really isn't that hard...!

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If the rest pattern is obvious, ie Captain based and relief not, don't think anyone needs an email to figure out what is going on. If something unusual is going to happen, expect a note.

When you get an email from an FO wondering about the rest, when it is painfully obvious, it makes you wonder if they even looked at the makeup of the crew for the trip.

"When you get an email from an FO wondering about the rest, when it is painfully obvious, it makes you wonder if they even looked at the makeup of the crew for the trip."

So what do you when you get an email about the obvious? Ignore the FO? Berate him or her? Proclaim how stupid they must be? Yep, seen all of these as an enquiry about rest.

The simple reality is that it is basic courtesy to reply to an FO who has emailed you about rest. Anything else and you can bet the FO looked at the makeup of the crew…..coz he's flying with a bit of a tosser!

As to emailing about rest…..its not that hard. If rest is involved, just let everyone know the plan. A basic courtesy again and hardly commander of forces stuff!

Well Bellcrank,

You obviously don't fly with our London based pilots. Many moons ago I emailed the Captain regarding rest and yes it was obvious to most normal people how the rest would/normally work. It was a 20.40 departure London time and you would have thought that the London based guys would work first letting the HK based guys rest first as it was 04.40 body clock departure time.

But oh no, the skipper needed his beauty rest at top of climb, bless him.

That's why you might get an unusual email regarding rest.


And don't even get me started about the Lunchtime departure out of London with 2 based and 2 HK based.
Day flight for the London based guys and yes they work first letting the HK based guys hang out of the straps through their night so the little petals can have their evening meal whilst watching a movie.



And before anyone tells me to "harden up", please don't waste the calories typing.
Doesn't take much to have a bit of CRM and common sense regarding rest.

Badair
You sound really annoyed and frustrated. Normally with the lunchtime departure from London with 2/2, my guys seem to like movie/movie/rest/rest. Did you try that?

Arfur,

No, not really annoyed mate. I was just bought up to respect and think of others that's all.

Yes, tried movie move rest rest but the little flower wanted a long rest before placing the space shuttle back to earth.

The Difference
 

All leaders command, but not all commanders lead. One can command from a desk in a faraway place, but you can't lead from there :8 Either way can achieve great results with the right people involved, but only leaders can inspire their followers to give it their all. So be a leader, not just a commander, if you want the best results :ok:

Google, Kevin Mooney, former commander of US nuclear submarine, USS San Francisco. Now that's a true leader, and real display of leadership.