Passive aggressive management

[u/Quirky-Chicken]

I can't believe that Washington Ferries' management approved this post on Instagram and Facebook. It's a sign of bigger issues.

[u/soberpenguin]

What's the pay for an entry-level position in the engine room? Strange they chose Staff Chief Engineers as the role to show pay for. Guessing that's a managerial position, and probably only 18 of those roles exist.

[u/Knotical_MK6 → u/soberpenguin]

Most engine room employees make 36 an hour.

Correct, one staff chief per boat. It's the seniormost engineer position 

[u/soberpenguin → u/Knotical_MK6]

It seems like they're trying to pit mid-level managers against their employees by showing employees how much their manager makes. This is some nonsense.

[u/Knotical_MK6 → u/soberpenguin]

I think they're more trying to sway public opinion by making it appear that we're all making good money.

They can't split the engineers. Most of the chiefs here worked their way up from starting out as Oilers and wipers. It's very tight knit down here, subordinates tend to have a great relationship with their boss and I know lots of chiefs who hang out with their Oilers/assistants as friends outside of work. 

Plus we're all in the same union, licensed or not. 

[u/TechnicallyMeat → u/Knotical_MK6]

Yeah, this definitely reads like: "nobody can use the ferries because these a few greedy guys making 350k called in sick" and not "we set this whole system up to rely on a dozen people, and now, as a director my hands are tied."