Originally Posted by
NoValueAviator
It's insane how low the standards are for the back office people here. They'd never get away with it in any other industry. With a few exceptions, everyone who isn't on the flight line here is a literal useless eater/parasite shuffling paper around and collecting a paycheck. You could hire 1-2 normal guys 8 hours a day to run some of these departments and they'd blow the current bloated teams out of the water.
Until I came to work here I legit thought it was impossible to hold a cushy office job while being so consistently lazy and incompetent, but it's the majority of the people here. Very frustrating knowing our good performance on the line accidentally reflects positively on these people.
The sad fact is that every single senior management member is there solely because of longevity, not merit. They hold those positions because they are effectively unhireable elsewhere and so have been unable to move to better places. JE has been there for 30 years, she has no qualifications to hold her position, and won't change a thing because she is too stupid to learn anything new. Watching crew schedulers work, it's the easiest job in the world, even a trained monkey could do it. (Todd is proof of that, he is essentially a trained monkey). But any change to the policies and procedures are too complicated, just can't do it.
Envoy wasn't a bad place to work when the music was playing but at the first hint of COVID troubles, the lack of leadership was shocking. First month of COVID, no-one even in management knew where Pedro was. He just chose not to show up to work. He sent exactly one (1) email about COVID in 2020, which was 90% a copy paste from Doug Parkers email.
And don't even get me started on how the head of legal for an airline did not know that pilots dequalify after being furloughed.
Or how the head of finance did not know how pilots are paid and what a pilot training event costs.
Or how the person in charge of PRIA did not know how to fill PRIA requests, so she just sent back empty forms with a signature. Lots of good stories...