Originally Posted by
Kellwolf
The problem lies with not having penalties tied to missing deadlines. We've got guys that basically have their lives on hold waiting to see if they're gonna upgrade, downgrade, change bases or whatever. It doesn't affect the guys in the front office at all, so there's no pressure to do things like work through the weekend of past 4:30 in the afternoon. Start tying a monetary penalty into awards coming out 2+ weeks late, and the pressure starts building for those guys. Something to pay those affected by the award's late posting back for the stress. I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm currently at my #2 choice on my bid, and the quotas pretty much lock me out of my #1, so I've got no dog in the fight. I do know a lot of junior CAs and senior FOs that are biting their nails, though.
I'm just waiting for the next "drop dead" date as far as deadlines go. Same as I was this time last year with contract negotiations. If they're looking at secondaries, why not go ahead and put the initial bid out? Secondaries should be on the final anyway.
The fact that it's taking this long REALLY makes me wonder if 11-08 was contractually compliant.
Is that actually true? Because if that is the case - that is absolutely ridiculous. I'm not saying that I believe/buy-into everything that management tells us, but the few messages that we have gotten recently have said that they're doing "everything" possible to get the alignment done as quickly as possible without errors - and it has seemed sincere. However, if they're not putting in extra time to get this thing done, that is unacceptable. It's the same thing as one of us getting drafted to cover a flight on a day off. It completely sucks but at the end of the day someone is forced to get the work done...how is this any different? Maybe I was just being extremely naive, but it seemed like they
were putting in a bunch of extra time to get it done. If they're just doing a regular 9-5 and think that's good enough, that is NOT OK.
I really hope that is not the case, and I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully someone on here can give some evidence to the contrary.