Bankrupt Northwest Airlines advised workers to fish in the trash

Did you all see this? Unbelievable.

Northwest advised workers to see treasure in trash
Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:17pm http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-15T201649Z_01_N15420743_RTRIDST_0_AIRLINES-NORTHWEST.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp...advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.

The No. 5 U.S. carrier, which has slashed most employees' pay and is looking to cut jobs as it prepares to exit bankruptcy, put the tips in a booklet handed out to about 50 workers and posted for a time on its employee Web site. The section, entitled "101 ways to save money", does not feature in new versions of the booklet or the Web site.

Northwest spokesman Roman Blahoski said some employees who received the handbook had taken issue with a couple of the items. "We agree that some of these suggestions and tips ... were a bit insensitive," Blahoski told Reuters. The four-page booklet, "Preparing for a Financial Setback" contained suggestions such as shopping in thrift stores, taking "a date for a walk along the beach or in the woods" and not being "shy about pulling something you like out of the trash."

The booklet was part of a 150-page packet to ground workers, such as baggage handlers, whose jobs will likely be cut after their union agreed to allow the airline to outsource some of their work, Blahoski said. Prepared with the help of an outside company, the booklet encourages employees to manage their money better and prepare for financial emergencies."If you have saved some money, pat yourself on the back -- you deserve it," the booklet reads. "Take out only what you need and spend prudently."

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This is the way management looks at labor -- they can ALWAYS live on less; they just need some helpful "tips" on how to do it. No discussion of cutting EXECUTIVE SALARIES, though (although I'd LOVE to see a pamphlet with tips like "settle for just ONE summer home, not several" or "get rid of your SECOND Benz").

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advised to "fish in the trash". Is that what it is all coming down to. Who wrote the booklet, some total idiot? I guess we are heading for 'Third World' status.

you will be required to turn it in to an executive vice-president immediately."

delivered to his/her desk. How a company runs is only a reflection of the Management.

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And gone around whatever city/town I was living in when they had those "free pick up days" when you could put out whatever you wanted, fridges, stoves, couches, beds, dressers, bags of clothes, boxes of books, etc., etc.

I now own many things I would never have bought, or have been able to afford to buy.

I call it "recycling at it's best"

Actually, in environmental terms

It's called "re-using"

And prolongs the lives of the landfills

And this computer I'm communicating with right now?

It's from the dump!

Sumthing to ponder . . .

Northwest Airlines to issue these kind of statements to people who are about to loose their jobs in stunningly insensitive. It's one thing to do it by choice, another because they chose to outsource your job.

you can't tell airline employees to do this, it promotes the removal of items w. the claim that they must have misplaced into the trash

this is why many hotels won't allow maids to take home items found in trash UNLESS you leave a signed note telling her it's okay

looting the companies in massive stock buyouts is well documented. Former execs at Northwest walked away from multi-millions while the company cried poor and the employees took paycuts. Sound familiar?

a person could steal stuff and then say they got it from the trash instead of out of the bags, it is a clear conflict of interest