Tuesday, July 26, 2005

"Get Me Vivien Westwood on the Phone!"

Aer Lingus staff have been getting justifiably steamed up over a leaked management memo in which a series of possible actions were mooted in order to ensure that the company's redundancy program "worked." Management were considering, among other options, rotating shifts in such a way as to inconvenience staff with families, introducing a new "tacky" and downmarket uniform in keeping with plans to turn Aer Lingus into a low-fare airline, and having a "word in the ear" of some staff members just to let them know they had no future with the company.

Management has said that there was no intention of putting these suggestions into effect, but Aer Lingus employees have in recent months been reporting incidents to their unions of harassment and intimidation in keeping with the strategy outlined in the memo.

1 comment:

Reidski said...

This tactic of making staff so pissed off that they'll leave is becoming all too common - but none have been stupid enough to put in an official memo, until now!