I read in this morning's paper that a large part of Indigo Airlines' cabin crew had taken sick leave en masse on Saturday the 2nd to appear for Tata-Air India's new recruitment drive. Reminded me of schoolchildren I know who play exactly the same trick here to cut classes when exams are coming...
Also, it made me smile to think that as a PSU, Air India had stopped creating jobs ages ago, but as soon as it has gone into private ownership and management, it has not only opened the doors again, but is apparently offering terms good enough to poach from the competition! Goes violently against the entrenched socialist dogma that private entrepreneurs are obsessively intent only on job pruning...
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