Ah yes, the FAA the quintessential example of a captured agency.
Southwest disaster
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I’m generally conservative. But I’ve grown to despise the very definition of a corporation. The whole thing needs re-thought.
Entire companies put their employees, and even customers, lower on their list of priorities than made-up financial metrics to appease their share price.
All while the VP’s , etc. in charge of executing those priorities get most of their annual compensation in stock options, that they help inflate.
Such an F’d up pyramid scheme.
Entire companies put their employees, and even customers, lower on their list of priorities than made-up financial metrics to appease their share price.
All while the VP’s , etc. in charge of executing those priorities get most of their annual compensation in stock options, that they help inflate.
Such an F’d up pyramid scheme.
Nationalize? Probably not.
Restore more of the regulation and force more slack into the system? Probably.
A lot of the issues we see can be traced back to airlines running things on a skeleton basis and any minor disruption quickly blows a bunch of things up. When things are going well it maximizes short-term profit, but it doesnt take much, as we have seen from multiple airlines now, for it to suddenly result in thousands of flights being cancelled
Oh yeah, I got a 1st class round trip flight to Oahu for around $100 from one of their screw ups.
The boomers are usually the problem. Get them out of the way and let other people actually fix things.
Have you called the IRS or Social Security office? IRS literally does not answer. I'm still waiting for a refund promised to be sent to me in 2-3 weeks back in August. Even contacting my Congressperson's office has not resulted in action.
There is no recourse if the government monopoly does not provide decent or reliable product or service. At least now you can try Delta, United, American etc if you don't like how Southwest is doing things.
Probably somewhere in the last 2-3 years, they tried to upgrade systems but it cost 2-3 million and they scaled down to keep limping along......
SW Airlines either bit off wayyyy more than they could chew with too many flights and too few pilots ; or they are a logistics mess right now after cutting some employees.
Probably both of the these have happened.
I agree. They tend to be resistant to documentation and automation because they see that knowledge as job security.
Id imagine its a mishmash of issues.
Theres plenty of blame to go around on boomers, but some of this is likely also people protecting their own jobs by not documenting their work well enough that a ****** employer might find it easier to hand that job off to someone cheaper\overseas.
Ha, I didn't elaborate. Using that knowledge as job security for themselves hurts everyone else down the line. It's honestly another reason I'm a fan of real parental leave in this country, (or normalizing extended vacations!) especially for men. Force many out of their role for 6+ months and documentation, cross training improve and see that info start to be dispersed downward to junior staff. Who will likely immediately try to automate it or improve it in some way.
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I know this is very midwestern, but stuff like this is why I would drive when possible.
CycloneErik
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Nobody solves a crisis like the high-paid dudes who created it.
Fingers crossed getting exposed forces them to figure it out but if not, the work force is adapting so boo hoo for them.
Oddly enough SW was an airline iirc that you could actually change flight times with and were known for good service. Not at the moment.
The only answer is committees, sub committees, acronymns and speaking in euphamisms.
