Originally Posted by
Normann
Yeah bro. But close to 25%? Who else did 25%? Nobody unless they went out of business completely. Adjusting capacity is part of business as usual to ride the fluctuations created by the economy. But ride it by more than 5-10% of adjustments is just PLAIN **** POOR PLANNING. Or rather the complete lack of planning. 25% is a huge, last minute, desperate move. It indicates a major error in judgement. So yes! I do hold whoever is running the place responsible for that. It did F up my life quite neatly whereas a 5-10% furlough, what I have expected, would have not done that. 25%, to me, suggests that someone made some decisions, or delayed making some decisions, until NK almost got out of business. It may not be BBB and/or the business model necessarily, but still there was a major snafu somewhere.
Yes 25% was a lot. I believe that it was a knee jerk reaction to try and protect themselves because they do not have the ability to lose money for a long period of time. While others furloughed between 9% and 17%, they are still loosing money hands over fist unlike Spirit. Furloughs mess up a lot of peoples lives, like mine. But this is the piece of crap industry that we choose to work in.
So as I understand by your statement had they furloughed 5-10% you would have still been employed and that is acceptable. I believe that someone who is at the top of that 9-10% would say that 8% would have been better and wouldn't have "Fed up" their lives either.