Pros
It pays well. It's entertaining trying to work out what stupid direction we'll try to head in next.
Cons
Under the tenure of the incompetent, petulant child that was the previous CEO, Jason "I'm a C-suite executive" Harfield, the organisation developed a culture of fear so ingrained that no one in management is capable of making a decision or taking responsibility for anything. This has crippled the organisation. Despite the constant rhetoric, Airservices is the equivalent of a third-world ANSP in its culture, ability to deliver projects and attitude to safety. Now we have a new CEO, Rob Sharp, a failed former airline boss who ran not one, but two, airlines into the ground and then was sacked from Transport NSW. Wonderful. The guy only knows how to slash and burn so now we've got the old culture of fear combined with a culture of corner cutting so brutal that the organisation is being slowly reduced to a smooth sphere of pure risk. The lack of regard and disdain for the workforce which has long pervaded management culture at Airservices was never more evident than when Rob Sharp visited our unit and showed zero interest in talking to staff, preferring to hang out with the manager at the back of the room (to be fair, at least he showed up which in all my years working at Airservices, I never saw "Ceilo Azure" Harfield do). It's this attitude that is why Airservices is quite happy to upend its operational staff's lives as they lurch from one insane operational concept to the next (none of which the organisation is remotely capable of delivering). Airservices needs a complete leadership replacement and transformation, otherwise it's cooked. The travelling public needs to know that one day the cost cutting and constant pushing of risk onto operational staff will result in an accident. It's only the dedication and commitment of frontline staff that has prevented that from happening so far but there is only so much slash and burn that safety equipment and systems can take.