gtechpilot |
06-18-2009 04:33 PM |
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I have talked with many of them. Maybe you should.
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You need to take emotion out of your view of business.
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I'm not confused, I've talked to may of our station staff and I have no emotions vested in the discussion. So why get personal?
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Management exists to run a profitable business, not to supply jobs to employees.
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Philosophical difference here - if you treat your employees well and guarantee job security through good times and bad, you will be rewarded with a more productive workforce. It's not unrealistic, but it's definitely not a common business plan in the US.
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There is NO doubt that we were overstaffed in the winter and might still be overstaffed come fall. I trust our new management to run a good business. Just because I have CLOSE friends on furlough doesn't mean they are doing a bad job.
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There's also no question that we are understaffed right now. Instructor pilots are bidding FO lines and we run through the entire reserve list every weekend.
And, again, we have a philosophical difference - I have seen a noticeable decline in the moral of the captains I fly with and a serious increase in anxiety for those who are furlough or downgrade fodder this fall. Though harder to quantify, poor moral can effect the bottom line just as badly as the 80 furloughs.
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There is NOTHING management could have done to save our ground personnel. Have you seen the ops at some of these new places? Understaffed working with broken equipment. ASA had no chance to win those bids. And they should NOT submit a bid that is not profitable just to supply jobs. And I think the ground crews are more ****ed at Delta then ASA.
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I agree that there is not much that ASA could have done to outbid then new Delta ops Borg. But ASA could have done more to reward the loyalty of the multiple 20+ year employees at the stations we've lost. Instead, ASA is content to wash their hands of the mess while proclaiming 'not our fault'!
If I get furloughed this fall, I understand that this management considers it a good business decision. I simply disagree. I don't like the prospect of being furloughed, but I bend over backwards (and will continue to do so) to keep flights ontime and to make the company look good because it is in my best interest to see the company succeed. I will not, however, trust our management to have my best interests at heart.
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