Originally Posted by
Boten
They are not public accounts.
As for staff, you are right BA are not treating staff great but QR is a whole different level. Being fired, even in head office, is so regular that when you had drinks after work on a Thursday you talked about who you know that had been fired. Most of the time people are just fired because someone doesn't like you. I decided to leave before the inevitable happened. You were impressed if someone had been there for 2 years without being fired; it seems to be the normal way to exit the company.
I think sometimes people just think that because they have a great premium product (which they do) that the company is highly efficient and a great place to work. The reality is so so different.
Anyway I shall leave it there. It is still a great airline to fly!
It isn't just QR working norms are different in other parts of the world or should the entire world pick up costly EU working practices?
My wife and I have friends who work as crew with QR on both sides of the cockpit door and they are very happy.
Frankly I don't think most customers care about the employment conditions when making purchasing decisions they care about the quality of the product they get. Do you also boycott Apple products or Nike because of the working practices in the Chinese factories in which their products are made*?
It is more credible for a company to claim unfair competition when their product is of equal quality to that supplied by the competitor.
*in these 2 examples those practices which would be unthinkable in the West are probably at the highest end of local norms, and almost every other major global company is using the same labour pool so I use those brands to illustrate not to criticise Apple or Nike