--- In [email protected], "roger_millin" <roger.mil...@...> wrote: >
> In my opinion BW has been a lost cause for ages (although we shouldn't give > up trying to sort it). The morale of the hard pressed ground staff has > appeared (and probably rightly so) to be down for years. I certainly know of > one highly respected and, hitherto, totally loyal employee who told me ages > ago that he was just waiting to retire and it couldn't come soon enough. > The restructuring just seems like another of today's techniques for those in > power; let's have another restructure because then it looks as though we > doing something. > The idea that there will be any improvement for the 'customers' is far > fetched and illusory but restructuring will allow an achievable target > against which the payout of bonuses for the senior execs can be justified. > Any comparison to the situation with MG Rover and the Phoenix four is purely > coincidental. > In my opinion it's a downhill slope from now on for some considerable period > of time. Let's hope that the bottom of the slope is not so deep that the > system is irrecoverable in many places but I'm not holding my breath. > Roger > I'm too young to retire and too old to start a new career but some of us may have no choice. Us boaters need to keep campaigning. Apathy is as bad as much of BW senior management. All of us need to really understand the issues and passionately want to do something about it. Shall we all start putting 2006 hats on again? The IWA SOS is timely. Will it be enough? Can enough boaters, especially many new liveaboards to the system be bothered? Here starteth the debate .... join in if you care.
