GTaudiophile
Lifer
I am a former Delta employee. I worked for their eBusiness department in 1999 and 2000 as the "Marketing Research Coordinator." Talk about the golden years. Even then, as a 19/20-year-old employee, I was given a $10K budget to work on a pet project. Now, only 4 years later, the department no longer exists.
I left the company around the same time my father was hired in 2000 as a flight instructor on the Boeing 737-200. He and his mostly retired military co-workers were hired, got rid of the union, increased training productivity three-fold, only for all of them to be furloughed in July of this year. Now 2 people do the job of what 25 use to do; class sizes went from 2 to 20.
DL management, with all of its Harvard MBAs, are about as stupid as they come. Giving themselves raises while trying to negotiate salary redeuctions with the pilots' union? Deciding to spend millions on new uniforms designed by an Italian label for front-line employees? Having three different paint schemes on their aircraft? In 2000, Delta decided on its latest paint scheme and logo, a rounded version of the well-known triangular Delta "widget". Now, four years later, despite having not paited all of its aircraft in the new scheme, they are going back to the old widget. I could go on and on using examples from network management to aircraft allocation, but I probably shouldn't say too much.
Fact is, the company is management heavy, has forgotten what loyal customers demand, and they have absolutely no long-term vision.
Delta is going down, and what happens to the city of Atlanta as a result is what truly concerns me.
Edit: I know a few former Eastern employees who work for Delta, and they say they are seeing the Eastern fiasco all over again.
I left the company around the same time my father was hired in 2000 as a flight instructor on the Boeing 737-200. He and his mostly retired military co-workers were hired, got rid of the union, increased training productivity three-fold, only for all of them to be furloughed in July of this year. Now 2 people do the job of what 25 use to do; class sizes went from 2 to 20.
DL management, with all of its Harvard MBAs, are about as stupid as they come. Giving themselves raises while trying to negotiate salary redeuctions with the pilots' union? Deciding to spend millions on new uniforms designed by an Italian label for front-line employees? Having three different paint schemes on their aircraft? In 2000, Delta decided on its latest paint scheme and logo, a rounded version of the well-known triangular Delta "widget". Now, four years later, despite having not paited all of its aircraft in the new scheme, they are going back to the old widget. I could go on and on using examples from network management to aircraft allocation, but I probably shouldn't say too much.
Fact is, the company is management heavy, has forgotten what loyal customers demand, and they have absolutely no long-term vision.
Delta is going down, and what happens to the city of Atlanta as a result is what truly concerns me.
Edit: I know a few former Eastern employees who work for Delta, and they say they are seeing the Eastern fiasco all over again.
