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DFO, The Most Inept Manager Of Them All
Just heard that he has got a years extension on his contract. How can the BOD's be so blind. I'm too depressed to comment further - just yet.
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BOD are not blind. They know exactly what they are doing. Keeping their yes man in place so that all the crap and associated fatigue/abuse of position/further degraded terms and conditions will continue to be passed on directly to the workers without any resistance from the person who has a corporate responsibility to maintain safety standards within RBA.
Who will be next in Flight Ops to be sacked for standing up for justice because your leader has sold you down the river.
Disgraceful state of affairs.
Who will be next in Flight Ops to be sacked for standing up for justice because your leader has sold you down the river.
Disgraceful state of affairs.
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Correct cowpat, a disgraceful state of affairs.
The flight operations management we are encountering is very poor. They are arrogant and have no ethical standards. To dismiss a Captain for no reason is underhand, it is a worry to us all in wondering who they will choose next.
Even FO's face intimidation in the selection process for a command course. Where and when will it stop.
Even FO's face intimidation in the selection process for a command course. Where and when will it stop.
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Lest we forget
This is not the first time pilots have been sacked for no reason at all. Remember "the day of the long knives" back in 2002? Sounds as if the leopard hasn't changed his spots.
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Ye Gods A321 Driver! How bad does an outfit have to get before ingenuees/unfortunates discontinue their attempts to join it? No wonder RBA pilots will keep being treated like dirt by the management.
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I could answer the question, if I so desired, but it would do nothing to assist my erstwhile colleagues still at RBA by doing so, and at this time they need all the help that they can get. Rumours and news has a good thread on the demise of the professional pilot which is particularly apt. Our cause is not assisted by the fly for free brigade who are the likeliest candidates for RBA.
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Yeah,
Strange as it seems, some weeks ago, I gotta call to join the RBA team, and in the offerings was a "shared accom." package. If I was teenager, then that would be fine, but I am a family man, and we need our privacy. I was told if I wanted that, go out and get your own accom. To boot, no start date, no specifics on the package. What is this! Deception by silence. How do they expect a candidate to make a decision based on that lack of information! Is this an RBA thing or the recruiting company tactic, not to tell you what the full package is?
Anyway, I would strongly suggest to your management they had better improve their conditions and terms of employment if they want me to consider again. In the meantime I will maintain what I've got, and other offers are coming in. It's almost insulting.
Hope the rest of you find a way out, if it's as sad as you say it is. The recruiting company are going to have a tough time getting the right candidates me thinks.
Strange as it seems, some weeks ago, I gotta call to join the RBA team, and in the offerings was a "shared accom." package. If I was teenager, then that would be fine, but I am a family man, and we need our privacy. I was told if I wanted that, go out and get your own accom. To boot, no start date, no specifics on the package. What is this! Deception by silence. How do they expect a candidate to make a decision based on that lack of information! Is this an RBA thing or the recruiting company tactic, not to tell you what the full package is?
Anyway, I would strongly suggest to your management they had better improve their conditions and terms of employment if they want me to consider again. In the meantime I will maintain what I've got, and other offers are coming in. It's almost insulting.
Hope the rest of you find a way out, if it's as sad as you say it is. The recruiting company are going to have a tough time getting the right candidates me thinks.
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couldn't agree more. i too was offered the same pap deal, shared acommodation, no kids schooling for the first year and a vague start date sometime soon. from what i've heard from those with intimate knowledge of the place both past and present i'd suggest the old wide bearth, at least until the t&c's are revisited on the upside. cheers
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Cripey Aziz's
I was offered the same sheepish deal. Why can't they be up front about it. I am not going to take a position that is so damn crappy without a definate start date. How can a guy plan a future. I could almost put up with the shared accommodation, but they wouldn't be able to fulfil my spec's for a house mate, I'm ****** sure of that! And it ain't another guy!
Jack had better get to RBA and tell them that the deal isn't anywhere near good enough, and blokes are refusing because of it.
I wonder how many knockbacks he's had. I bet there are some starters, but the won't hang around for long if it stays so trashy.
Jack had better get to RBA and tell them that the deal isn't anywhere near good enough, and blokes are refusing because of it.
I wonder how many knockbacks he's had. I bet there are some starters, but the won't hang around for long if it stays so trashy.
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shared accomadation...are they joking?
I am wondering how many teenagers have a 767 rating and sufficient experience to qualify for the job...and no school fees?
Is the Jack mentioned the one from rishworths?
sounds like what I heard about recruiting companies is correct..I didn't hear anything good.
I am wondering how many teenagers have a 767 rating and sufficient experience to qualify for the job...and no school fees?
Is the Jack mentioned the one from rishworths?
sounds like what I heard about recruiting companies is correct..I didn't hear anything good.
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Yes.
Eventually enough was enough and it had to be done. RBA should be the finest expatriate job going; small company, deep pockets, long haul, short haul, own simulator, tropical island etc but it has had its innards torn out by a CEO who appears desperate to reach a predetermined set of figures to trigger a bonus payment.
I fear for what will be left behind when he reaches his target and leaves.
Eventually enough was enough and it had to be done. RBA should be the finest expatriate job going; small company, deep pockets, long haul, short haul, own simulator, tropical island etc but it has had its innards torn out by a CEO who appears desperate to reach a predetermined set of figures to trigger a bonus payment.
I fear for what will be left behind when he reaches his target and leaves.
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In days of yore the abominable Rishworth contract was tolerated, treated like a years unaccompanied posting really, for the opportunity to progress from a local based light twin to a wide bodied jet, and move onto a reasonable contract at the end of it. Now that the regular RBA T&Cs have deteriorated to their present level it just isn't worth the candle. The final insult was when the SIN$ fell so much that the paltry Rishworth pay [in NZ$] was better! Possibly still the case? On a brighter note nobody need worry about sharing accomodation, with the current rosters the little time you spend in BWN you could sleep hanging from a peg on a door. The only thing that will wake you is the grimacing skull kicking the door down to reapply the red hot poker!!
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Another Capt Dismissed
Heard that yet another Capt has been dismissed and has already departed the Abode. What the hells going on? It sure ain't the Abode of Peace that I once knew.
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Rumours reaching this corner of the sand pit say that it was a new F/O not a captain and that it was a fully justified sacking. If what I have been told is correct it would amount to wilful endangerment of an airplane. Perhaps RBA can now only attract the pilots nobody else would choose to employ.
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Since when has wilful endangerment of an aircraft been a sacking offence in RBA? Surely only a light slap on the wrists is the norm. Please address any queries about this policy to the erstwhile Deputy Training Manager!