QANTAS: Last week's score - Electrical staff needed?

Clearly, a lot of people have been following my QANTAS postings lately. This week, I've had many that have asked me how the flights went this week. The daytime flight from Sydney to Canberra on Wednesday was fine. The flight home from Canberra to Melbourne on Wednesday night was basically fine. I still don't understand the "priority" baggage handling as my bag was the last one off the whole plane but at least the flight was on time, was fairly pleasant and my bag was at the other end.

So, did I have a good set of flights for the week? Sadly, the flight from Melbourne to Sydney on Monday night let the side down. We boarded late. It was explained that the incoming aircraft was late. I hear that all the time and presume it's airline-speak for "we don't have enough room for error during the day so as soon as anything goes wrong, our night flights are typically late". Then we sat and waited. After a while we were told we were waiting on a passenger from Hobart. After another delay we were told we were no longer waiting on the Hobart guy as he'd got lost in the airport. However, now we were told that our bags hadn't quite finished getting loaded anyway and the captain made a joke about us "not wanting to go without those". Then he said they had been loaded a few minutes back. Once again, we sat for a while, wondering what was going on. If our bags were now on and we'd forgone the Hobart guy, why hadn't we left. That's when the all-to-familiar message came:

The captain said "well, we've got one engine started but there seems to be a small electrical problem with the other one". "We'll have to get it looked at and hopefully we won't be too long".

So I was sitting there thinking that it was now three flights in a row where the aircraft I was on had electrical problems. Do QANTAS need new electrical staff or is there a problem with funding the current staff to do their jobs?

Ah well, let's see how this week goes...