One of the biggest reasons I am self employed is corporate stupidity, employment stupidity. whatever you want to call it. In plain fact it is the need for more money by the people above us. They need it more than you. The reason I'm ranting is I read today that they staffed one single traffic controller for an airport out east. When media got a hold of information that two planes had to land themselves without assistants they started asking questions. They heard the lone controller on duty, a supervisor, fell asleep and was suspended. I saw this story almost immediately after they posted it on comcast news. When I went back ten minutes later to check my facts, the story was gone! It's like it never happened!
Well of course, that makes sense to me. Answers lead to more questions, usually embarrassing questions. I started to wonder why they had a policy of having only one traffic controller on duty at all. The responsibility for safety is two important to left up to one person. Ask any doctor, ongoing or acute medical conditions can induce sudden sleep, medications can too. What if he had a heart attack or stroke all alone that the tower? How embarrassing would it be to his superiors if he had suffered a TIA or mild stroke? He's not the one that should have been suspended, his bosses are. But that's the way we should be thinking about our employees.
Employees didn't create the financial mess we're in, the bosses did. Meanwhile the top brass not only get to keep their jobs, they get their million dollar bonuses and get government money on top of that. Meanwhile the employee is lucky if they see a bone to chew. Whew, thanks, I feel better.
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