Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?'

Hate to break it to you, but the old bags will be replaced by new younger douchebags.

Plus the increased work life balance has been proven by studies to be more productive because people working shorter hours and/or from home are more productive then the regular 40 in the office.

"But I can't recognize it by looking at it so everyone must be lazy" some rich jackass.

Because we're not people to them, we're numbers on a screen.

Cubicles? In this economy?

Having done cleaning in offices such as these for at least one of the top companies in the world, I fail to see why even this sort of office is all that compelling. Look, a miniature golf statue...

And we had our yearly cook out last month!

He is mad because the pandemic allowed people to review their priorities and turn towards their personal lives rather than focusing on career lives. People today are less willing to work overtime, less willing to go above and beyond because they don't care about that. It means less money for the fat cats which is why they are removed so much.

He's also slightly mad because he now has to compete in a labor market where people can choose between:

A shitty waiting job that has you flying out of town daily, pay is about as much as a gas station clerk, has you dealing with some of the craziest ideologies on the planet because no one respects your authority. High Stress, low reward situation.

Then you have work from home: Right off the bat, you get 2 extra hours back from your daily commute. If you have kids, you are now saving hundreds of dollars monthly on child care. Car care costs go down. Gas costs go down. Less stressful situation, and more mentally stable.

The problem isn't just that he is having to compete with work from home jobs, but he is now having to compete against the benefits of work from home. And there is only one way to do that: $$$.

I don't know if "business traveler" is Frontier's main customer, exactly.

Frontier doesn't fly business. If Frontier is pissed off, it is because it is causing the legacy carriers to muscle in on the vacation traffic his company flies.

Nah he would still have so many safety Ney's that he'd never actually feel real fear or hunger

We legit need to encourage more billionaires to take up the call of the submariner, they just have to engineer and pilot it themselves

Pretty sure his employees didn't fly to work before the pandemic either.

Unfortunately more of us will need to be hungry and desperate. We are getting there.

After you

They have poor management skills in the first place and only really luck into where they are, because of this they have zero adaptability and all they see is a bill for unused office space and with all the easy money recently drying up investors are gonna put the squeeze on c-suite pricks who would rather shoot up prices than eat their golden parachute.

Middle managers are on board because, similarly, they don't know how to manage remote work and can't adapt, which should just mean their salary appropriately adjust downward but lol.

Its common knowledge amongst the rich that we are heading towards a collapse, and 'emergency villas' have had booming sales across the last 10 years.

They know what's coming, and are going to grab as much as they can before they fly off to their safehouses.

Jokes on them, psychology says their own armed guards will be taking out their bosses and taking the villas over as soon as shit gets bad.

Economic calamity is currently happening, and the wealthy are about to lose after everyone else has lost for decades. They're just saying the quiet part out loud, blaming someone else.

Suggestions for a wine pairing?

I got banned from reddshit for saying that, so now I'm here:

Eat The Rich!

I swore off Frontier long before this triple-chinned douche bag started removed about unproductivity. The reason his company is making less money is not because his employees work from home, it's because Frontier charges fees on fees on fees. Passengers are sick of it. This is the company that charges you $25 to talk to a fucking counter representative at the airport. You have to pay for everything--seat assignment, overhead bag, carry-on, water, snacks. The only thing they don't suck out of your wallet is a fee for a stroller and a car seat, and that's only because law prohibits it. Fuck this guy and his asshole company.

we need to share those notes somewhere, like a wiki for companies to avoid and why.

At best the studies show there’s not much difference between WFH and in an office. Some show an increase for one or the other but on average it’s the same.

Big companies also have big investments outside of employees... such as oil and property investments. They don't want to hurt their other revenue streams.

I suspect all large employers are being lent on by the banks and probably local governments, to prevent a real estate collapse.

I can guarantee 100% every CEO on the planet would love to offload the cost of providing office space to the employees themselves . No shadow of a doubt.

Yet as you observe, lots of CEOs are on this message now, that employees should come back to the office.

I’m open to other explanations, but that it is mine.

That's where the name Biff comes from. Usually as a homage to conception activities.