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Thread ID: 121521	2011-10-29 07:10:00	Qantas grounds all flights worldwide.	Hitech (9024)	PC World Chat

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1240731	2011-10-30 19:43:00	Here. (www.stuff.co.nz) :)	Trev (427)
1240732	2011-10-30 19:58:00	Although accountants will say otherwise, getting aircraft engineering from the lowest bidder is a bit short sighted. I am sure however that the employment service could supply candidates for the CEO's position for quite a bit less than the current incumbent. Saving $4,900,000 on just one salary would look good on the balance sheet, while simultaneously giving some previously unemployed person's family a boost beyond their wildest dreams. I have to say that's about the best way to run your company in to the ground. So many people assume CEOs do nothing, know nothing, and just bludge for cash, but in most cases, they shoulder an awful lot of responsibility and most of them actually do work for their bucks. Sure, there are exceptions, but that's true of any role at any level.	inphinity (7274)
1240733	2011-10-30 21:45:00	Although accountants will say otherwise, getting aircraft engineering from the lowest bidder is a bit short sighted. I am sure however that the employment service could supply candidates for the CEO's position for quite a bit less than the current incumbent. Saving $4,900,000 on just one salary would look good on the balance sheet, while simultaneously giving some previously unemployed person's family a boost beyond their wildest dreams. So you would pay the CEO $A70,000 less than the average earned by the company's aircraft engineers!	KenESmith (6287)
1240734	2011-10-30 21:48:00	I will NEVER fly with Qantas again. We left Sydney to fly to Johannesburg at about 10am. It is a 14 hour long haul flight. After serving us a pretty scungy meal, they then insisted on having all blinds down, and darkened the cabin. We apparently had to pretend it was night. The only reason for this was so that the staff had no further work until just short of South Africa. Lazy bastards. I resolved there and then never to impose on their airline and so-called service again. i will not as a rule fly QANTAS unless I have to; they are the most expensive operator in Australia, and their service , both domestically and international is rodent manure. Recommend Emirates internationally, even if all other things were equall, the 30KG economy baggage limit would seal the deal.	KenESmith (6287)
1240735	2011-10-30 22:15:00	The dispute has been terminated by a Fair Work Australia, court decision - This would not have happened without QANTAS's grounding action, and the CEO digging in his toes and saying the Airline is going to stay grounded until the union action is called off-- ie The company is not budging. The Gillard Labour Government is ruled by the unions, irrespective that only about 23% of Australian workers are union members, and the union factions backing Gillard ensured that she would do nothing - for many years Gough Whitlan was the most incompetent PM the country ever had, but in just 12 months Juliar Gillard has made him look absolutely stellar, and now Labour are actively considering restoring Kevin Bloody Rudd, who was deposed for Gillard because the Labour party believed that he had lost the plot. As someone who has lived in and been closely associated with Australia for a number of years, one can fairly comment that trade union stand over tactics have done immeasurable harm to the country, costing 10s of thousands of jobs and closing many once successful companies, and this was long before the days when nearly everything is made in China, as is the case today. I have little admiration for QANTAS, but internationally they are losing money, they pay excessive fees to Government in Australia for the civil aviation infrastructure, which non Australian Registered airlines don't, and they are plagued with union militancy from a very expensive highly paid workforce. These unionised workers are following in the footsteps of so many other previous work forces of long disappeared formerly successful companies, and f*cking themselves out of a job.	KenESmith (6287)
1240736	2011-10-31 17:26:00	Australia is staring to price itself out of the world market. Car factories are closing, steel works closing in Newcastle. Their wages are far too high. The minimum wage in the USA and I just found out Canada is $8.00	Digby (677)
1240737	2011-10-31 17:28:00	Qantas workers already get paid, on average, a lot more than many other airlines in the region. They need to **** with their bitching. And a lot of people seem to assume that a $5mill package = $5mill in cash... much of that is probably in shares etc that will be worthless if the company goes under. Besides, are you really surprised the CEO of a company with ~$15b annual revenues has a $5m pay package? Yes $5 million salary for anyone to me is obscene. I heard that the USA once had a law that the head of a company could only be paid 10 times the lowest workers wages.	Digby (677)
1240738	2011-10-31 19:24:00	The dispute has been terminated by a Fair Work Australia, court decision Let me kangaroo loose Bruce, let me kangaroo loose ... :)	fred_fish (15241)
1240739	2011-10-31 19:38:00	Let me kangaroo loose Bruce, let me kangaroo loose ... :) :lol::lol:	WalOne (4202)
1240740	2011-10-31 19:39:00	Yes $5 million salary for anyone to me is obscene. I heard that the USA once had a law that the head of a company could only be paid 10 times the lowest workers wages. That law must have changed 3337	Gobe1 (6290)
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