Airport bag handling video

[MARTINE]

Baggage abuse is nothing new at Qantas. When I was flying far more frequently prior to the pandemic it was easy to see the tarmac at Perth T3 from the Qantas Club lounge. You'd often see customers' luggage getting thrown around during loading and unloading of aircraft. I'm quite sure these baggage "handlers" are well aware that passengers can actually see from this vantage point what was happening to their luggage and other cargo but ground staff would abuse it anyway. Similar incidents were seen by myself and other passengers at some regional airports where the staff albeit wearing Qantas uniforms were local contractors.

We all have bad hairdo days, but it's no excuse to mistreat passengers' baggage. In the video one can clearly see one handler holding a elevating a suitcase above his head and forcibly slamming onto the conveyer belt. If this worker desperately needs a workout I suggest he joins a gym where he can expend his excess energy.

I'm pretty disappointed that it takes video evidence like that shown and a public outcry for Qantas and its contactor Swiss Port to take action.

Agree

Think we all agree happens everywhere (except Japan).!
Why
Sociopathic ?
Angry resentful ‘F—k you’ attitude at the privileged prats who get to sit upstairs and especially at the front if the plane?
cough wages ?
Hard work and lousy demanding conditions?
Unemployable elsewhere?
Because they can? (Until the video ‘leaks’)

None of it excuses this appalling behavior but I don't believe its endemic - but once is once too often.

Here low wages with a huge shortage of (expendible) workers oursourced in a race to the bottom only gets attention when leaks like this occur. If we can see it on the runway so do their managers and the highers-up.
Dont think they really care

 

[nutwood]

Let's reward the CEO and executive team for running service to the ground.

I find it one of the fascinating questions of life; why makes CEO's special? You can have a CEO who's last job ended with the business going bankrupt but he'll get another job, as a CEO, and earning being paid more in twelve months than many aspire to in a life time.

 

[SeatBackForward]

And it gets worse for Melbourne Airport:

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/zgonmk

 

[nutwood]

And it gets worse for Melbourne Airport:

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/zgonmk

At least someone did eventually come along and tidy up. Time frame would be interesting. Obviously stuff happens and the other carts would have places to be. Bit grim if the displaced luggage sat out there for a period of time and better if had never fallen off, but context is important.

 

[JohnK]

I find it one of the fascinating questions of life; why makes CEO's special? You can have a CEO who's last job ended with the business going bankrupt but he'll get another job, as a CEO, and earning being paid more in twelve months than many aspire to in a life time.

That'd be funny if it was just speculation. What you describe happens quite regularly.

I think the answer is somewhere in one of my earlier comments. Something along the lines of jobs for the boys/girls.

I remember elections for many years in Greece involving promising jobs and moreso the top jobs in return for votes. Whenever there was an election the old staff aligned to losing political party lost their jobs and new party appointed associated with the ones gaining power. Performance had nothing to do it.

The western world does that now on a grand scale.

 

[nutwood]

That'd be funny if it was just speculation. What you describe happens quite regularly.

I think the answer is somewhere in one of my earlier comments. Something along the lines of jobs for the boys/girls.

I remember elections for many years in Greece involving promising jobs and moreso the top jobs in return for votes. Whenever there was an election the old staff aligned to losing political party lost their jobs and new party appointed associated with the ones gaining power. Performance had nothing to do it.

The western world does that now on a grand scale.

I believe the argument is: "The business was in trouble. The new CEO put up a valiant fight, saved everything he could and ensured the workers got their entitlements but the adverse market forces were too much and this once family business, that had traded successfully for seventy years, was forced into receivership. The extensive capital assets should be sufficient to pay the administrators..."
The CEO has accepted a new position at ........... who hope that his experience in adverse conditions will be of great benefit.

 

[MARTINE]

I believe the argument is: "The business was in trouble. The new CEO put up a valiant fight, saved everything he could and ensured the workers got their entitlements but the adverse market forces were too much and this once family business, that had traded successfully for seventy years, was forced into receivership. The extensive capital assets should be sufficient to pay the administrators..."
The CEO has accepted a new position at ........... who hope that his experience in adverse conditions will be of great benefit.

And an asset stripped company gets sold for nothing

 

[AIRwin]

Noticed the inbound aircraft operating my flight has retro livery and even spotted my red bag waiting to be loaded: