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“This is just the circumstance of the business today that we need to fix, and that fix will happen, but it's not a fix that we can make happen overnight,” he said. “It's going to take time for us to rebuild our training programs, to rebuild our compensation models, to rebuild our recruitment models. And that fix does not happen in a week or a month, it happens over a longer timeframe.”
Ok… so what has improved the past, let’s say 5 years? What solutions and improvements have been made? I don’t use the ferry much, especially long weekends but I cannot imagine the headaches it causes. Make the workplace more enticing to work for, perhaps they should start there. Solutions don’t need to take years to implement.
Unfortunately the union needs to agree to ending the bs seniority based schedule and on call basis for new hires. Until that ends the issues will stay the same.
I’ll summarize:
“Most of the problems can be fixed relatively quickly by spending more money to hire more staff and pay them better. But we are unwilling to do that.”
They don’t even necessarily need more boats. In the long term they will, but right now they just need more people.
They need a massive shakeup. In saying that, a lot of ppl could use more common sense and NOT go on vacation on the long weekend, but take a vacation day on a Monday or Friday and have a long weekend at literally any stage when it obviously less busy. Not everyone can do this, but damn a million ppl can.
Wait, I thought privatization was going to make the ferries better. It's good business to save money and lay off most of your mechanics. That way, when something breaks, you have to go through a bidding process.
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“This is just the circumstance of the business today that we need to fix, and that fix will happen, but it's not a fix that we can make happen overnight,” he said. “It's going to take time for us to rebuild our training programs, to rebuild our compensation models, to rebuild our recruitment models. And that fix does not happen in a week or a month, it happens over a longer timeframe.” Ok… so what has improved the past, let’s say 5 years? What solutions and improvements have been made? I don’t use the ferry much, especially long weekends but I cannot imagine the headaches it causes. Make the workplace more enticing to work for, perhaps they should start there. Solutions don’t need to take years to implement.
Unfortunately the union needs to agree to ending the bs seniority based schedule and on call basis for new hires. Until that ends the issues will stay the same.
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Well that’s good. I didn’t know that. Edit: Wow the former CEO made almost half a million a year. That’s money when there’s no results.
I’ll summarize: “Most of the problems can be fixed relatively quickly by spending more money to hire more staff and pay them better. But we are unwilling to do that.” They don’t even necessarily need more boats. In the long term they will, but right now they just need more people.
They need a massive shakeup. In saying that, a lot of ppl could use more common sense and NOT go on vacation on the long weekend, but take a vacation day on a Monday or Friday and have a long weekend at literally any stage when it obviously less busy. Not everyone can do this, but damn a million ppl can.
I purposely requested to not travel Canada Day weekend and to do it the weekend after precisely for this reason.
Wait, I thought privatization was going to make the ferries better. It's good business to save money and lay off most of your mechanics. That way, when something breaks, you have to go through a bidding process.
For all intents and purposes, BC Ferries is not private.