Qantas to close Avalon maintenance base

[GoldCanyon340]

The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well.

GoldCanyon340, we are competing against other nations. In good times, many companies expand their workforces either dramatically or gradually. QF and VA would be in that category.

Yep, your tongue-in-cheek monitor seems as though it got disabled. I have worked at several companies though, including the Flying Kangaroo, where management bonuses were partially or mostly based on cost cutting. So, lop off a few employees and someone somewhere gets to buy a few cases of Grange or Wendouree* as a nice little extra without actually addressing the possible underlying issues of waste or deficient work practices, which may have caused the cost blowout in the first place. It's nothing to do with tall poppy syndrome.

* Ok, you can usually only buy one case of Wendouree a year.

 

[eastwest101]

.... hidden factor is that many Australians are reluctant to move interstate for a new job. That can be understandable, but the media recently suggested we were less flexible than some other nations in that regard.

OT Post Warning: Not sure if it has been proven or not but stamp duty on property is the oft-cited reason for peoples reluctance to move cities/states/towns. It essentially works as a "sin tax" on the buying of property, and has all the drawbacks of a sin tax in that it discourages the activity, is usually inefficient and costly to enforce and also distorts markets and decision making (i.e Do I take that job in another town?). Sin taxes are usually cited as being great to discourage people from smoking for instance, but stamp duties also prevent people relocating from areas of high unemployment to low unemployment so are a drag on the economy and also act as a defacto ponzi scheme for property. Others have made the point numerous times that some sort of realignment/abolition or re-design of inefficient taxes such as stamp duty on property is required.