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07-21-2024, 02:07 PM
#471
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All great points. There is this strange mindset in management and ops that there can be no changes in the way of doing things. There are so many inefficiencies that can be fixed in scheduling and utilization but it takes making some significant changes and they are afraid to do it. Even our union has tried helping them out to see the light. I don’t know if the right change will ever happen. It will take hiring somebody from the outside, a visionary.
I believe the proper way to fix inefficiencies is to empower those that know the jobs the best (who are often those who do said jobs, or perhaps an immediate supervisor/manager), to find and fix the multitude of small problems that occur in real time.
This allows mid management to organize and distribute assets for maximum local effect, which in turn allows upper management to focus on exploiting economies of scale, which, in turn allows leadership to focus on developing strategies to exploit opportunities for the future.
Unfortunately, it appears our current "leadership" (and I use that term loosely here) is so inward focused on eliminating frictions, instead of allowing the lower echelons to do that, they are unable or at least uninterested in looking out, up and to the future.
07-21-2024, 02:33 PM
#472
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I seem to recall APA mentioning that the first recipient of the tax free benefit was a new hire that had some kind of bad accident, with a long road ahead of them for recovery.
07-21-2024, 10:18 PM
#473
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And therein lies the problem.
I believe the proper way to fix inefficiencies is to empower those that know the jobs the best (who are often those who do said jobs, or perhaps an immediate supervisor/manager), to find and fix the multitude of small problems that occur in real time.
This allows mid management to organize and distribute assets for maximum local effect, which in turn allows upper management to focus on exploiting economies of scale, which, in turn allows leadership to focus on developing strategies to exploit opportunities for the future.
Unfortunately, it appears our current "leadership" (and I use that term loosely here) is so inward focused on eliminating frictions, instead of allowing the lower echelons to do that, they are unable or at least uninterested in looking out, up and to the future.
I believe the proper way to fix inefficiencies is to empower those that know the jobs the best (who are often those who do said jobs, or perhaps an immediate supervisor/manager), to find and fix the multitude of small problems that occur in real time.
This allows mid management to organize and distribute assets for maximum local effect, which in turn allows upper management to focus on exploiting economies of scale, which, in turn allows leadership to focus on developing strategies to exploit opportunities for the future.
Unfortunately, it appears our current "leadership" (and I use that term loosely here) is so inward focused on eliminating frictions, instead of allowing the lower echelons to do that, they are unable or at least uninterested in looking out, up and to the future.
07-22-2024, 07:44 AM
#474
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I get the reality that we should be holding the company to account and not be forced to carry the whole company on our shoulders, but the amount of vitriol that I see in some of our online spaces for the organization that provides all our income is sometimes astonishing.
As history has shown more than a few times, it is not a given that any airline is gauranteed survival.
07-22-2024, 09:32 AM
#475
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This.
I get the reality that we should be holding the company to account and not be forced to carry the whole company on our shoulders, but the amount of vitriol that I see in some of our online spaces for the organization that provides all our income is sometimes astonishing.
As history has shown more than a few times, it is not a given that any airline is gauranteed survival.
I get the reality that we should be holding the company to account and not be forced to carry the whole company on our shoulders, but the amount of vitriol that I see in some of our online spaces for the organization that provides all our income is sometimes astonishing.
As history has shown more than a few times, it is not a given that any airline is gauranteed survival.
07-22-2024, 10:34 AM
#476
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This.
I get the reality that we should be holding the company to account and not be forced to carry the whole company on our shoulders, but the amount of vitriol that I see in some of our online spaces for the organization that provides all our income is sometimes astonishing.
As history has shown more than a few times, it is not a given that any airline is gauranteed survival.
I get the reality that we should be holding the company to account and not be forced to carry the whole company on our shoulders, but the amount of vitriol that I see in some of our online spaces for the organization that provides all our income is sometimes astonishing.
As history has shown more than a few times, it is not a given that any airline is gauranteed survival.
07-22-2024, 12:40 PM
#477
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My take away from TF's message was that regardless of what the execs do, there is an ever present contingent of the online pilot group that is staunchly anti-management/company.
You know...the perpetual complainers and bellyachers.
You know...the perpetual complainers and bellyachers.
07-22-2024, 01:59 PM
#478
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That's becuse, like college football coaches, if they make great decisions, they prosper with mega bonuses and leave after a decade with bags of $$$$$, if they F the place up, they get paid bags of $$$$ to depart and end up leaving the employees holding the bag of doodoo in their wake.
07-22-2024, 04:33 PM
#479
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That's becuse, like college football coaches, if they make great decisions, they prosper with mega bonuses and leave after a decade with bags of $$$$$, if they F the place up, they get paid bags of $$$$ to depart and end up leaving the employees holding the bag of doodoo in their wake.
07-22-2024, 05:24 PM
#480
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Basically working for half pay, but to each their own.
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