<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SEA_Tigger:
When you're being asked to take 25% pay cuts and management is getting millions in bonuses and tens of millions are being spent on consultants who are essentially saying "gut the unions, honk off the passangers, and start a new airline that most current UA flyers will not touch with a 10-foot pole", I'd pretty much resign myself to working in a new field, as well, so might as well make as much as you can, while you can, and sock it away for when the doors close.</font>
I have to believe that the majority of executives at WHQ and a quarter would not buy a cup of coffee. These executives have proven, through operation policies, that they are worthless. While it may not be fair to lump all executives together, I feel that all these people do is create a rift between themselves in their ivory tower and the employees of UAL. These ivory tower silver spoons also alienate their best customers. It is like the customers getting kicked in the groin and the executives wonder why we don't just keep coming back.
Taking a good look at the problems with UAL, start with the Board of Directors. These people have been in place throughout all the current problems. I am sure these individuals have profitted handsomely at the expense of UAL. Maybe a new Board is needed to instill new
Long Term vision.
I know management continues the practice of granting bonuses for the
"key" people. What ever happened to earning salary and bonuses based on perfomance. Wake up WHQ, your airline is in bankruptcy protection. It is in Ch11 because your management practice failed. You blame labor, rip customers off and hire inept customer service supervisors that just plain stink (I would use other words but I am trying to keep this opinion PG) and employ strategy that confuses anyone and everyone. The list can, and does, go on. I just have to ask the brilliant executives at WHQ, "Are you for real?" UAL is so top heavy in management that it is no wonder nothing useful appears to come out of the ivory tower on Algonquin Road.
I am a loyal UAL flyer that has become sick and tired of the same old song and dance. If you executives expect your labor force to take pay cuts then you had better cut your pay as well. Handing yourselves bonuses when you mandate that labor reduce costs (salary) is pathetic. I would impose that starting with the CEO, pay cuts should be instituted. The higher the position, the greater the pay cut. Let's see, CEO = 50% pay reduction. President = 49% and so on. Until WHQ falls in line with
mandatory pay cuts, they will be mocked and ridiculed.
Wake up WHQ and become willing to do what you are mandating others to do. Respect is not demanded, it is earned. And from where I sit, WHQ has done little to earn respect as well as loyalty.