Originally Posted by
Turnamdburn200
ZW is one big family right? So why is my family not worth supporting? I get it if the company has no chance of surviving without furloughs but the company will survive with or without, they are just deeming my family not worth it short term. They rather put 180 pilots on the street with no income so that the owners can keep the millions “they earned”. They have the money to pay everyone, they just rather not in order to pad their pockets then expect us to come running back to them as soon as they need us. Companies that don’t take care of employees shouldn’t survive.
I don’t even see anything creative coming out of the Union, something like offering the stay at home option to everyone who has been on property over 10 years, for every one of those the savings in that would allow one junior person to stay. But nope, they see that as keeping 2 people when they only need one even though the cost is the same. The company doesn’t care about its workers therefor it’s workers shouldn’t care about the company.
i get the whole company closing sucks for lots of people, but so does furloughing when there isn’t a need. We both know the company will overestimate the furlough and people will be getting junior named in the first 2 weeks. The company will do anything to pad the owners pockets, they give 2 craps about a single employee
👆 this is totally spot on.
when I had my own businesses I knew their success depended on having good loyal employees. People make an organization not the other way around.
The furlough can last anywhere between 12 and 36 months. Does management really think pilots will come running back or take up other possibly better opportunities when this subsides? It’s only the diehards that’ll come back or stay.
And quite correctly said, they have money, they just don’t want to pay people. They know if people quit they can be replaced with the next hiring and bonus spree so they don’t care. We’re expendable.
By way not giving people their one year bonus was another example of bs.
180 pilots on the street and many with families and children. You think many people care if the company survives or not when it doesn’t care about their families at home and how the company’s decisions have a domino effect on them? Then you take the current economic situation which is a shambles to rub salt on the wound.
The simple fact is we’re on our own, the company doesn’t care, the union can’t do anything for us and the only link we now have is a phone call from the company and nothing else.