Originally Posted by
nboyd_10021
Left to first Class,
While I understand where you come from, and trust me I know how a day of meetings feels like after a bad long flight in Y... you got that right, in my company (and i mean, i am the majority shareholder), you 'd be at the top of the list of the people i would fire. In the current environment, every penny counts. Keep that in mind when you sit your royal arse in J. I couldn t care less about the provision in your contract. You want to fly J, upgrade yourself at the airport. use miles or cash but your miles and/or your cash. Right now, i d rather keep the extra cash for marketing expenses, some research, hell even a bonus for top deliverers in december (that may or may not include you).
There are far worse things in life than spending 8 hours in an aircraft and then get straight to work...why don t you ask the people you deal with in India...or just take a look at the people in the street while in the taxi in BOM.
At some point, you have to put things in perspective.
one last thing, requests to include such provisions in contracts are a no brainer. The contract goes straight to the garbage can along with the HR manager who agreed to hire you.
When times are better, then i am the first one to indulge.
Oh what a wonderul post. Have just had the similar discussion with some to$$er in our company who swore blind that unless he travelled in J to YYZ for a meeting (the meeting was even the next day after his arrival) he could not guarantee winning / even felt we would definitely lose the $400k contract he was going out to close.
So with a perfectly straight face I told him I would travel instead, in Y to YYZ and even attend the meeting on the same day in the afternoon (if I took the first flight of the day from LHR) and even take the overnighter back to LHR that same night - and the company would save a hotel bill too. But the rub was I would take the bonus he would have been due for closing the order. Miraculously he changed his mind and suddenly Y class would be acceptable. To$$er.
And like
nboyd, if I came into a company and found J class had been negotiated into someones contract, those individuals who insisted on waving that at me as their "right" - particularly in tough times would find themselves VERY high up the list of redundancy candidates.
It's an old cliche, but there is no "I" in the word "Team". And in tough times, everyone is expected to make sacrifices.