PAL employees suffer from bad management

I hate tropical typhoons. The last one was a bad typhoon, really, that Pedring. And it almost kept me from going out of the house but I was determined not to get locked up. So I flew all the way to Baguio, Cordillera, Vizcaya, and then back to Manila, hovered for some time over Roxas Blvd. before dawn. Oh the damage in the Genuine Ilocano regions is horrible. And over Pampanga, the idiots manning the dams kept opening the gates for the darned dams to urinate over Pampanga and Bulacan. I guess its going to kill a few people in the inundated areas. I can only wonder if the President will come down on the water. I heard some people get very nervous, even suffer convulsions, when they see or touch water. Those poor people, tsk, tsk. My heart's so stricken with immeasurable grief for all of them including the mongoloids who're scared of floods.

While I was flying on my way home over the NAIA terminal early morning on that stormy day, PALEA members recently staged a Bangkok-style sitdown, but only for a limited time, I overheard. The Thailand experience lasted longer and there were calls for similar protests in the rail, other transport networks.

It was a puny mutiny, but a mutiny no less. It underscores the plight of the workers of PAL. So why is PAL losing money, wants to fire its people, decides that out-tasking the work load in the airline is the best for all?

I know that this kind of reform should have been done a long time ago, but why only now and why so sudden? Why wasn't there a real patient bargaining and why is it difficult to shoulder the benefits when after out-tasking or outsourcing, the PAL will no longer be in the red, but profitable again?

Perhaps it's a matter of conscience? Well, conscience, to hell with that. An asuwang like me doesn't have one. Years ago, er, about more than a decade really, while I was in the mood to fly over the airport (I like watching jets take off and then I fly behind or above them for a short while just for the heck of it haha!) i use to see the people of the late President, Cory Aquino who were managing the airlines at the time. More recently, while eavesdropping over houses, I happened to hear on several occasions, those people of the late lady president are still lording it over in PAL -- specially the bright boys of now the most powerful man in Congress (I always see him with different girl friends on his arm every time. I wonder if Tita Betty Go isn't turning in her grave).

I happen to have followed many of these bright boys (well, some are really girls, and one or two of uncertain gender). They have good appetites! Really! Voracious appetites, in the superlative no less. No wonder PAL is so poor now. And its facilities are decrepit. I'm glad I can fly on my own or these voracious fellows will really suffer me a bad flight and shitty lounge time every time. And that's why the doggone airline has to retrench its valued people. So much for the PALEA, it will take a revolution before they get their due.