Originally Posted by
full of luv
Thunder,
Morale in the air force varies mildly compared to what morale will swing on the line at an airline.
When things are growing/advancing everyone is happy. When stagnation/cuts take place almost no one is happy.
The military at least has a process that they follow and although the numbers may change there is advancement boards and a process that must be followed.
Corporate airlines have no such thing. You are a part number in the production line and when they cut production, everyone feels the pain especially the junior part numbers.
With all due respect, as a military retiree you really should be looking at some airlines that have a more established track record with management because all signs at Allegiant right now point to a long contested war between employees and mgmt. They are still in the mode that the more you can take from the employees the more you can make and aren't there to produce a long term quality product.
Godspeed. LUV
Really...the military has a process it follows? Have you talked to any of the guys who wanted to separate but couldn't be let go or the ones who had just shown up in theater, been there a for a month and then are told that they are out of the service in two months, thereby taking someone away who was already there and now displacing another person who might not have been eligible for deployment for a year or so in the future? I have, sounds an awful lot like furloughs and TDY displacements...and the idea that AF managers are somehow smarter or better than the managers that G4 has is laughable. People are people and when you hire managers rather than leaders, that is what you get. Managers don't have a clue about making the mission happen by listening to their people and establishing a proper give and take. Managers dictate...and that is what the AF has become, slowly and inexorably, yet another Peter Principle operation in action. As to looking to greener pastures...that stuff tends to be pretty arbitrary, you see people *****ing and moaning at SWA/DAL/AA/UAL...dictating what others' motivations and ambitions are doesn't really work too well.