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Alan Joyce is a spineless weasel
Qantas are getting kicked from pillar to post, and deservedly so.
They are in front to the courts for their dodgy refund/credit policy for cancelled flights, a move that has already seen a grovelling apology and backtrack
They are in the gun for deliberately selling seats on flights they know will be cancelled (or have already been cancelled)
They have just lost their appeal against unfair dismissal for a heap of their workforce in 2020The quality of service they offer is fucking appalling, mainly because they fucking fired everyone in 2020 (and still took a heap of government money). Their pricing is out of control. Flights get cancelled. Luggage gets lost. Delays everywhere.
And who oversaw all of this? Joyce. Who was allowed to retire with a huge pay out. And then, when it was all kicking off, he brought that retirement forward and let the CFO take the heat.
And to make matters worse, it really does look like they successfully lobbied the government to keep competition out of Australia and allow them to continue operating this way. A decision made, apparently, in the "national interest" what ever that means considering Qantas is privately owned.
This was once a highly regarded company, and one of the world's best airlines. Joyce's, and the Board's, decision making has led them to a point where they are reviled in their own country. And yet he faces zero repercussions.
Fuck Qantas.
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Rumoured to have pressured RA into ripping up Israel Folau's Wallabies contract while concurrently code sharing with Brunei airlines, a country where homosexuality is illegal and was punishable by death up until 2019.
Was also the first airline mogul to say no vaccine, no travel.
Dickhead.
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@mariner4life said in Qantas:
Fuck Qantas.
Indeed. Haven't flown with them for years, simply because of price. When we last used them, the air crew were all dried-up old bitches with an attitude problem.
The fact that Joyce has gotten away with being such a fluffybunny for so long is simply the worst bits of late-stage capitalism; he burned down a few things in his first couple of years so he could drive higher share prices later on, and the board loved it.
Like energy, should be compulsory acquired by the feds and re-nationalised.
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@mariner4life said in Qantas:
Fuck Qantas.
High Court finds they acted illegally in sacking 1700 workers. Board should suspend Joyce's payout. The fucking leprechaun took a valued brand and destroyed it. The planes are almost as old as its crew so the next CEO has to spend a fuckton of capex modernising the fleet. This after he was provided one of the youngest fleets by his predecessor.
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Yup Joyce has trashed the brand in oh so many ways. Looked to me he tried to leave early so he could hang on to his undeserved bonuses. I'd rather that money went to all the staff he fired.
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Sounds like a good case to study at business school. How the wrong incentives aka bonuses can cause people to behave with a short term mindset with no care to the long term impacts.
To be fair to Joyce he has been ripping them off with a short term mindset that suits his longterm self-interest for some years. The board must have as much fight in them as the AB forwards.
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PWC have a book out at the airports on change management and strategic thinking, I nearly bought it for a laugh.
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Sounds like a good case to study at business school. How the wrong incentives aka bonuses can cause people to behave with a short term mindset with no care to the long term impacts.
Possibly less to do with bonuses and more to do with the revolving door of short-term CEO's who get paid millions as they are allegedly "world class".
Bloody amazing how many of the same fuckwits seem to pop up to work their "magic" again and again. Bit like Eddie Jones
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Qantas:
Bloody amazing how many of the same fuckwits seem to pop up to work their "magic" again and again. Bit like Eddie Jones
Once you make C-Suite, you can be as shit as you want
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