Originally Posted by
Boomer
"Where is it written that being a flight attendant is a lifetime career? What’s wrong with a five-year, one renewal, and you’re out contract? Wouldn’t it be nice to be served by flight attendants that are actually excited to come to work? Yes, safety training is important. But there is no reason to believe that a fit and alert 29-year-old should perform less safely in an emergency than a weary, overweight 60-year-old."
I would not put my photo with a statement like this if I ever wanted to fly again. Too much Visene falling into the coffee, even in First Class.
"Did they have a choice? Remember when the Machinists union committed murder-suicide at Eastern Airlines? The “victory” achieved in 1991, which drove Eastern into the ground and all its former employees onto the unemployment rolls, made it clear to the other airlines that union leadership would rather destroy jobs altogether than allow non-union workers to have them."
umm, well, yeah, that's what unions do. What a dimwit.
What needs to be done is, Outsource these D-bags! Him and most Airline CEO's of the past 20 years could easily be replaced by some kid from India, at 10 cents (or less) on the dollar and zero stock options! And I'll bet the kid from India could run a better airline!
It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts or a Harvard MBA to come up with a "Business Plan" that consists only of slashing employee's pay and benefits and outsourcing to the lowest bidder.
And when employees put up a fight, simply file bankruptcy, wash, rinse, repeat. See how easy that was?
It's ALWAYS the employee's fault, ask any Wall Street Investment Banker or Harvard MBA (Tools).
