British Airways asks employees to work without pay

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LONDON (AP) -- British Airways on Tuesday urged its staff to work for nothing in an effort to save the company money.

British Airways PLC is struggling to come up with ways to save cash after reporting its biggest full-year loss since the former national airline was privatized in 1987.

BA chief Willie Walsh has said he would not draw a salary for the month of July, and urged other employees to work for blocks of time without being paid.

Are they fucking serious?!? Do they really expect people to just volunteer their time so the company's numbers look better? What do they think the point of having a job is in the first place? Sure, the CEO can go a whole month without pay, but does he really think that someone working at the ticket window, living paycheck to paycheck, is really gonna be happy working for free when his rent's due in 2 weeks? This just shows how disconnected upper management is from reality.

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