Originally Posted by
newarkblows
We can spend $50,000 on printing and mailing flyers telling us how great we did last year but we can't pay a programer to fix our payroll software to, you know, actually pay us correctly. Management coming on a conference call saying "we don't always get it right but that doesn't mean we aren't trying" after completely dropping the ball on every single "improvement" they introduced for a year. We have an entire department sucking down payroll keeping these feel good programs going and yet our operation can't laminate a checklist so that is lasts for more then three days. This is about requiring the documentation of every minor employee infraction because we don't have the faith in our lower level management to actually manage anything.
We are a mickey mouse operation keeping up the charade of knowing what is going on. This isn't about just the pilots; this is about flying airplanes to make money and we suck at it. We are running around putting out fires and pretending like everything is just dandy while the operation and the front line employees have given up on any kind of unity or team spirit. I have zero faith in our Atlanta management.
What you described probably represents about 90% of every company involved in flying airplanes, whether it is a 141 flight school, 135 charter, or 121 airline.