More Facts Less Emotion,
Please don't tell me you are getting emotional on me. It would be easy to name specific positions and multiple redundancies, but would it really be the right thing to do? Would you like to see your name and job title on a list of superfluous employees? Given that without a sea change of structure, lines of communication, accountability, and a culture based upon trust and teamwork, we will soon cease to exist as an entity, why point unnecessary fingers in a forum that is ignored by anyone that can make a difference. Many ideas have been expressed here that are logical practical solutions to what ails this airline. However, the powers that be will not embrace the change until it is too late. We know the fare structures are wrong, even Dave has acknowledged it for over a year, but someone has advised him that it is still possible to squeeze loyal and once loyal customers for every penny until the last minute. Do not think that goes unnoticed. Heaven forbid we take the lead and unilateraly treat our customers, especially our business customers with the appreciation and fairness that they deserve thereby earning marketshare and loyalty. And certainly lets not trust our rank and file employees who have stuck with this company for decades through thick and thin compensating for multiple management errors which are never ackowleged. Meanwhile Dave has alienated the actual people who run this airline by granting bonuses to ineffectual, self serving members of management, while asking for cuts from the true company loyalists that are getting the job done regardless of the bureaucratic obstacles put forth by inept, short sited, cya management. My apologies to the excellent management personnel who desereve their bonuses and are truly appreciated by the lowly scum who actually care about the customers and are running this airline despited the limited tools and afforded us by our "superiors". However "More Facts" if you insist, and you work for UAIR, name your department and position and I will try to give you a specific example for your edification in a context that will be understood from your perspective. As most of the rest of us know, our management structure impedes communication, is not proactive, instills fear in people that could be good managers given the opportunity, and frowns upon any idea that they haven't come up with, which they never will because original thought has always been frowned upon at UAIR. Sometimes I feel sorry for Dave because he only knows what is passed up from management and it just isn't the true facts he needs to restucture the airline correctly. If Dave had the TRUE facts, and cut management to necessary personnel only (without bonuses even though a few of them deserve them), I would take parity -1 with Southwest, I would even work with a 50% cut until we turned profitable if all were joining in equally to defeat our common foe, unfortunatley, UAIR management sees their own employees as foes, even though we have bailed them out time and time again. Good luck to all readers and contributers no matter your position. Sad to see arguably the best airline workers in the business fall to the wayside do to management that makes desisons based on their own personal benefit rather than what is best fothe company (this includes customers, stockholders and employees). Best of luck to all, including those who have aided and abetted the conditions responsible for the demise of a once respected airline. wewerethecompany
